Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sean Whitcomb

We have no idea where the shooting took place. We couldn't find the actual crime scene.

Fred Schmidt

We want rate stability like everybody else. Rates set at actual cost are the best way to price electricity.

Emmylou Harris

The crazy thing is that, if you add up the actual recording time, it was less than two weeks. But Mark was so busy that I got the tracks he mixed two at a time over a period of years. It was frustrating, because I had rough mixes of all these great songs, and he'd be like: 'Don't play them to a soul until they're finished!' I was a good girl scout, though.

Steve Owens

We use the funding estimates as a place holder because we do not know what the actual cost will be until we begin building. It's not until you actually bid the project that you'll have an idea of what it's going to be and even then you many have to adjust it again.

Dan Bennett

The process of developing this benchmark ensures that it is a realistic testing tool for users, the ISV and hardware vendors. The automotive industry generously donated an actual design model, UGS contributed the testing framework based on characteristic use of NX 3, and we integrated it with the proven SPEC methodology that helps ensure consistent results.

Tom Noonan

I've done a lot of action movies, and there has to be a certain amount of emotion in the actual performing of the stunt. It doesn't have to be any particular emotion, but there has to be some life to it, and that's not so easy.

Octavia E. Butler

Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?

Terence Young

There was no actual person who was James Bond, despite all the books.

Eric Hill

I am quite convinced now... that the actual training of drawing cartoons - which is, of course, my style - led to my producing Spot. Cartoons must be very simple and have as few words as possible, and so, too, must the 'Spot' books.

Irish Sayings

When fire is applied to a stone it cracks.

Juan Somavia

The real challenge is to make sure that these provisions will be applied and enforced worldwide, just like the international provisions designed to secure safety at sea.

Andy Zircher

When I was an undergraduate, I don't think I applied (for graduation) in time.

Lev Vygotsky

Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied to the intellect. But it is possible not only to be talented in one's thoughts but also to be talented in one's feelings as well.

Karen Finerman

I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.

Tim O'Reilly

We want to show how technology can be applied to fix our problems. We need to celebrate not just success but to celebrate people who make a difference. It starts with people who do things for love, with no expectation of return. Some of that turns into enormous financial success, and then some of it goes back into doing it for love.

John Hall

We applied in response to a request put out by FEMA for two-man teams to help on the Gulf Coast. At this point we don't know where we will be assigned, but we know it's going to be in the Gulf Coast region somewhere,

H. Hunt

We applied for food stamps and we've gotten it. We have no money.

Chris Horner

We applied for a patent ... for some specific reproductive processes in swine. Any pigs that would be produced using this reproductive technique would be covered by these patents.

John Bolton

very dramatic news about the extent of Syrian involvement and involvement by top officials in the Lebanese government in this assassination.

Dale Robertson

Don't ever take a dramatic lesson. They will try to put your voice in a dinner jacket, and people like their hominy and grits in everyday clothes.

Kapil Sharma

People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.

Denis Leary

There are some guys I know for a fact, like Louis C.K., who always talk about how not-great of an actor he is, and he's terrific on his show. But I know Louis would play a fantastic dramatic role in something, too. He just needs somebody to grab him and say, 'Come in here and do this.'

Lyle Kessler

'Orphans' reflects unconscious elements in myself that were, at the time, indigestible and butting up against each other in my psyche; issues I wasn't really in touch with but was trying to put into a dramatic framework.

Richard Flanagan

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.

Jane Fonda

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

Bill Cheney

We're still looking at job growth, but not enough to prevent unemployment from rising. If there were no special factors explaining this, it would be a rather dramatic piece of news.

Eula Biss

The risk of getting Hep B from a blood transfusion is a tiny number, but it's a bigger number than the risk of side effects from the vaccine.

Phil Davis

We are here every day monitoring the effects of the smoke and if there is a need for us to take people away from the smoke we will do that.

John Lilly

When you talk about effects of (winning that game), in any one year it doesn't have that great of an effect,

Gore Vidal

Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.

Iris Chenault

She's tired today because she didn't get enough sleep without the machine. That's one of the side effects you don't get a good night's sleep.

Roman Romanenko

Throughout the history of spaceflight and the study of effects of exploring to human, space environment to human body, we have accumulated enough knowledge to be able to move over to the next step: getting ready for interplanetary missions, for interplanetary exploration.

Richard P. Feynman

The extreme weakness of quantum gravitational effects now poses some philosophical problems; maybe nature is trying to tell us something new here: maybe we should not try to quantize gravity.

Davis III

I was right back to work the middle of the day Monday, in the gym, and practiced yesterday with no lingering effects from last week. And that's a major step for me, that I'm feeling better, I'm stronger.

Robert Winston

I don't think you can impose limits on science because the very nature of homo sapiens is that he - she - is an inquisitive species. You can't control science. You have to control the effects of science.

Carlos Ghosn

India is definitely one of the markets where we can expect growth and a potential to do well.

Charles Dickens

There might be some credit in being jolly.

David Baker

We've seen incredible growth in the past two years.

Ho Chen

The outlook for 2006 is quite robust as we are looking for the growth momentum to be maintained. The main reason for the higher fourth-quarter numbers was the manufacturing sector.

Mitchell Corwin

Walgreen remains on a steady growth path, relatively unabated by industry or competitive threats.

David Rusenko

Word-of-mouth marketing is a crucial component of organic growth for startups and one of the primary ways that Weebly has grown to over 15 million customers.

Jane Addams

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

Janet Yellen

Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.

Alan Greenspan

All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree.

Curt Miller

We were too perimeter-oriented. Toledo played a mixture of defenses and they really had us on our heels. We were just settling for 3s.

Billy Wilder

My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.

Elizabeth Hurley

I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous.

Arthur Helps

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

Elizabeth Bowen

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

Stephen Jay Gould

No one should feel at all offended or threatened by the obvious fact that we are not all born entirely blank, or entirely the same, in our mixture of the broad behavioral propensities defining what we call "temperament.

John Wilkinson

If we all work together, we'll have a sustaining mixture for all of us to have.

Adam Savage

I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.

Annie Besant

I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.

Erik Solheim

Let us keep expectations at a realistic level.

David Henkin

I don't think it's at all realistic for them to get the EIS done before they deploy in August.

Hiroshi Kamide

No one is seriously thinking a spring release is realistic any more.

Irrfan Khan

We don't have a culture of realistic acting in India.

Issa Rae

My first web series, 'Dorm Diaries,' was a realistic mockumentary about what it was like to be black at Stanford University. I'm black and I went to Stanford. Boom. Easy.

Phil Marineau

We're trying to be realistic and not trying to over-promise.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a pretty skeptical person, and I'm a realistic person.

Aaron Finch

We set a realistic vision on the playoffs.

Maira Kalman

who never told me to do anything realistic and who never told me to stop daydreaming.

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth.

Jason Wu

I happen to like selling clothes as much as creating them. It isn't relevant unless it sells.

Frances O'Grady

There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.

Sarah Hall

I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious.

John Fleming

We're not trying to be Target, we're trying to be Wal-Mart but more relevant to our customer.

Robin Day

I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.

Albert Einstein

Don't let the measurable drive out the relevant

Alber Elbaz

I'd rather be relevant than cool.

Nick Cave

I've never been interested in being relevant.