All Quotes

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
‐‐ Daisy Berkowitz

Experimenting with make-up is a lot of fun. When I'm not touring, I like nothing better than inviting the girls around to listen to music and get ready together before going out.
‐‐ Eliza Doolittle

Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.
‐‐ Natalie Jeremijenko

Experiments at Seattle aquarium prove that octopuses can tell individual humans apart - even when the people are dressed identically - just by looking up at them through the water.
‐‐ Sy Montgomery

Experiments show that children in unsupervised groups are capable of answering questions many years ahead of the material they're learning in school. In fact, they seem to enjoy the absence of adult supervision, and they are very confident of finding the right answer.
‐‐ Sugata Mitra

Experiments suggest that if one particle of Ebola enters a person's bloodstream, it can cause a fatal infection. This may explain why many of the medical workers who came down with Ebola couldn't remember making any mistakes that might have exposed them.
‐‐ Richard Preston

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.
‐‐ Richard Ernst

Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test them in ways that work fine with humans but not so well with other species.
‐‐ Frans de Waal

Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.
‐‐ Laurence J. Peter

Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.
‐‐ Edmund Phelps

Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.
‐‐ Atul Gawande

Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.
‐‐ Hedy Lamarr

Experts often possess more data than judgment.
‐‐ Colin Powell

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
‐‐ Marilyn Monroe

Experts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they report flaws.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

Experts say that Britain and France have strong spy agencies; Germany's is competent but afraid to level with its public; the rest are relatively weak, and there is no Europe-wide spy agency.
‐‐ David Ignatius

Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.
‐‐ Dirk Kempthorne

Experts say that Iraq may have nuclear weapons. That's bad news - they may have a nuclear bomb. Now the good news is that they have to drop it with a camel.
‐‐ David Letterman

Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.
‐‐ Marilyn vos Savant

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?
‐‐ Roseanne Barr

Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.
‐‐ Bob Ehrlich

Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid.
‐‐ Jenny Holzer

Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.
‐‐ Mstislav Rostropovich

Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.
‐‐ Al Pacino

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
‐‐ Eugene Ionesco

Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.
‐‐ Tipper Gore

Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance.
‐‐ Robert Rodriguez

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.
‐‐ Bret Easton Ellis

Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the roots of Hawaiian culture in the process of converting the natives to European religious beliefs. Some of the results can never be undone. We try to honor what is left.
‐‐ Todd Rundgren

Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
‐‐ Tariq Ali

Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.
‐‐ Paul Ryan

Exploration by real people inspires us.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

Exploration is an oft-lauded human activity, and one that resonates in the same way that music and good stories do. It's hard-wired into our species (and into many others), no doubt because it has survival value. Exploration occasionally rewards those who accept its risks, usually with new resources.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.
‐‐ Frank Borman

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.
‐‐ Edith Widder

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.
‐‐ Russell Hoban

Explorers tend to be the aggressive types - why else would they risk scurvy, mutiny and other bad things to go out there? So, you could say that any aliens that are actually moving and interested in going somewhere are likely to be more aggressive. But who knows?
‐‐ Seth Shostak

Exploring an ever-expanding world of diverse cultures and beliefs is at the very heart of the 'Dragonships' series.
‐‐ Tracy Hickman

Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape. By exploring and understanding Mars, we may gain key insights into the past and future of our own world.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

Exploring Castro's pawns in Cuba and exposing anything negative also makes you a pawn to all his enemies 90 miles away. Both sides don't have much of a track record for nuance of opinion.
‐‐ Brin-Jonathan Butler

Exploring how you could make a bad situation worse can sometimes tell you what not to do.
‐‐ Harvey Mackay

Exploring is an innate part of being human. We're all explorers when we're born. Unfortunately, it seems to get drummed out of many of us as we get older, but it's there, I think, in all of us. And for me that moment of discovery is just so thrilling, on any level, that I think anybody that's experienced it is pretty quickly addicted to it.
‐‐ Edith Widder

Exploring is one of my favorite things to do, but I don't really want to be in a tour group. I like doing it alone or with whomever I'm traveling with.
‐‐ Tia Mowry

Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leaving our home planet on lengthy missions with a constrained return capability.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.
‐‐ Brian Greene

Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Explosions are not comfortable.
‐‐ Yevgeny Zamyatin

Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe.
‐‐ Dee Dee Myers

Exporting oil would not drive up prices at the pump. American drivers buy refined products, which the U.S. already exports. Many studies - from a range of institutions and government agencies, including the Congressional Budget Office and the Energy Information Administration - have shown that lifting the export ban could actually lower gas prices.
‐‐ Harold Hamm