Random Quotations

One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.

The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D. Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names taken at random from among the R's - told a story of exile, desolation, disillusion, and anxiety behind lace curtains.

Only my phone number and email are private because I don't want random people calling me. But I like the ability to share everything.

Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my head and through the stained windows the light came but dimly - it was all still, solemn and religious.

Caves are whimsical things, and geology on a local scale is random and unpredictable.

The purpose of random testing is not to catch, punish, or expose students who use drugs, but to save their lives and discover abuse problems early so that students can grow up and learn in a drug-free environment.

I watched some serious '80s television. 'Alice,' 'Good Times,' 'The Jeffersons,' 'Family Ties,' 'Cheers'... every night it was eat dinner, watch 'Cheers.' I was actually on 'Jeopardy' with Rebecca Lobo and Dot Richardson, and we were laughing because I was just nailing every random '80s trivia question - sitcom, theme music, movie, you name it.

Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.

Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross.

Tinguely wasn't the first artist to work with machines. But others were more interested in precision, in what machines are meant to do. What made him different was the random element. He introduced the mechanical accident. He was always interested in the immaterial, in sound, smoke, speed, light, shadows.

I was the first in my peer group to get pregnant. All I craved was reassurance. I needed someone to tell me that all the seemingly random symptoms I had - weird things, such as excess saliva - were normal. And I was worried because I wasn't getting any morning sickness.

The best advice is often the compliments received, and they are often about an associate who did something exceptional. I tell my teams that it's the random acts of kindness, the unexpected, that people remember most.

People be saying, 'Watch - when she gets some money, she's going to get a Gucci purse.' But I don't think that's my style. I like finding random stuff and random brands. Maybe one day when I'm sophisticated and older I might settle down and invest in a nice leather handbag.

When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.

When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.

Bites are usually not random attacks by strays. The great majority of biting dogs belong to a family member or friend of the victim. When a young child is the victim, the attack almost always occurs in the family home, and the perpetrator is usually a 'good' dog that had not previously behaved in a menacing way.

I always see celebs in very weird spots. I don't always go to fancy-shmancy places, but I see celebs at coffee shops or random stores, when you're looking for a sweater and turn around like, 'OMG, that's Fred Savage!'

Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie.

If the cosmos isn't finite, then far, far away, floating duplicates of your brain - with all its experiences, thoughts, and emotions - are occasionally (and temporarily) thrown together by the random combining of atoms. Such 'Boltzmann brains,' as they're called, are a disturbing consequence of an unlimited universe.

When I travel overseas on many occasions, I get pulled out because I may be buying a one-way ticket, I may be traveling with my sister and we have different last names. That's smart profiling. Just pulling people out one at a time when we have millions of passengers in random screenings I'm not sure is the best way to do it.

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

Our pain hides beneath these fluttering, random thoughts that run through our heads in an endless loop. But there's so much freedom in getting to know what's under there, the bedrock.

Actually, I have this random fear, and it's of bees and wasps. Bees and wasps actually scare me just a little bit. I'd rather have a snake or a crocodile, yes... I appreciate them, and I love them, but I have a slight fear.

Engineering serendipity is this idea that we can help people come across unexpected but helpful connections at a better than random rate. And in some ways it's based on trying to reassess this notion of serendipitous as lucky - to think of serendipitous as smart.

I find it funny how people from Boston and New York hate each other because of pro teams. But, like, everyone on the Red Sox is a random millionaire athlete from somewhere else.

A great deal of creativity is about pattern recognition, and what you need to discern patterns is tons of data. Your mind collects that data by taking note of random details and anomalies easily seen every day: quirks and changes that, eventually, add up to insights.

Sometimes I will click on a random sequence of notes- not to actually use it in a song, but to see if I can find maybe a simple pattern that I can build off of.

We all have Tumblr, and we all have Instagram and everything. People care so much about it because, now, any random can be famous on the Internet if their world looks good on Tumblr. And so everyone at high school strives for this kind of aesthetic correctness.

It's bad enough when people are comparing your movie to just other random movies, but when you have another 'Carrie' to compare it to, it's rough.

Random things are luxurious to people. It's personal.

If you so choose, each day can be filled with even more joy than the one before. If you so choose, even the most seemingly random events can work in your favor.

I've done some really weird gigs. The ones where no one turned up - they're probably not the interesting ones to talk about. I played some pretty random ones in L.A. I signed to play all-R&B nights or an all-comedy night where I'd be the only white person there. They were fun.

You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.

I always believed in animal spirits. It's not their existence that is new. It's the fact that they are not random events, but actually replicate in-bred qualities of human nature which create those animal spirits.

I get random meetings, like, 'Ron Howard would like to sit down with you.' 'Really?' If 'Breaking Bad' hadn't happened, Ron Howard probably wouldn't want to sit down with me. Because he would have no idea who I was.

Another random thing I do is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. And you may be familiar with the movie 'Contact,' which sort of popularized that. It turns out there are real people who go out and search for extraterrestrials in a very scientific way.

I record stuff all the time, like little vocal things. I write random things down... Sometimes I just get things stuck in my head and I record them, and that actually becomes a song quite a lot of the time.

One of the best things about paintings is their silence-which prompts reflection and random reverie.

One million random Web addresses doesn't tell you how many are porn or how many kids had access.

My life experiences are different than the average person because I've spent the last 10 years living in Mexico. I generally don't know what's going on in America, and when I do visit for work, I'm often interrogated about my life choices by random strangers.

I got this random CD in the mail -- some guy wrote a song about me,

If they were able to target her, it would probably take even fewer steps to get information from random people.

Since all four of us were educated as physicists, we looked for a mathematical way of describing what was going on. We wanted a model that could capture both the near random character that one sees looking at two cells and the highly structured behavior of the whole group.

The primary task is to help them develop a context ... which becomes the experience they already know. It helps kind of ground them in some history so it doesn't feel like such a random thing.

When you expand your awareness, seemingly random events will be seen to fit into a larger purpose.

If you are going to assign a commentator for say, Spanish or English football, at least pick someone who has a good understanding of those leagues, not any random man. Because mistakes are then made and the viewer's respect is lost.

I got, from my perspective, a random e-mail, 'Hi ... wanna put out a record?' I had to trace it back.... It was none of my doing.

I don't think it's a random thing and they got lucky. I think they knew.

I hardly expect to have any surprises, ... The surprise will come from GE helping people understand what can be done and will be done in the future. Instead of telling you a bunch of random numbers, we in fact may have ability to build a relevant quarterly earnings model.

I hardly expect to have any surprises. The surprise will come from GE helping people understand what can be done and will be done in the future. Instead of telling you a bunch of random numbers, we in fact may have ability to build a relevant quarterly earnings model.

Certainly, it's important to gain inroads with the Jackson area. But we would have recruited Jeremy if he was from somewhere random like Texas. He's just a terrific player that will help us immediately.

What we want is a healthy canopy. If we go in there and say, 'Just plant a bunch of trees,' they'll just plant them in a random fashion. That may result in a tree not surviving more than a decade.

He was in a rage. And it was so random, it's random that he would come to this house, he didn't know these folks and to come in and do this much damage, it's just mean.

If the average New Yorker is concerned about being murdered in a random crime, the odds of that happening are really remote.

He helped me build my confidence. It was little things he has random meetings in the year to talk about grades, girls and life. He's definitely like a father figure.

He was very inquisitive; always asking random questions about random things.

I'm hoping we see the same type of rebound this year, but we had a couple of random acts that nobody could have forecasted.

Most of these changes result from local conditions or random variation, ... it's not a rosy picture all around the country.

I thought it was just random mail that is sent to everybody. I didn't think I was a special person.

I will say the individual who did this killed them in an act of rage, ... It's always been my opinion that whatever happened in that house was aimed at that house. It wasn't random -- this wasn't a crime of opportunity.

I think that, you know, looking at all the systems that I've been studying over the last several years, that paper ballots with a precinct optical scan counters and random audits is the best system that we can have.

It is a random process, and we can't go to the Harris people and tell them they have to choose a certain person.

I think over the past four years, I have changed as a person - because my focus is not on the medal. None of the medals I have at home, I even know where they are - they're in shoe boxes and random places.

It happens pretty frequently and in the most random places, ... It hasn't changed my life at all, but it's added a nice, fun element to it.

It got a little crazy by the end. George (Crocker) was handing out sausages to random people near the end.

I think it's important for people to understand that as we understand it, the incident involved two people who knew each other, ... It was not a random drive by. Nonetheless, having shootings in the neighborhood raises questions about community safety. Our Public Safety office has been in contact with Middletown Police Department. Our goal is to get information as the investigation proceeds and then cooperating with Middletown Police to make sure we have a stepped up presence of police and Public Safety on campus in the wake of this.

We now have to make long-term plans for the vehicles because they may be around for quite a while. Either mission could end tomorrow with a random part failure. With the rovers already performing well beyond their original design lifetimes, having a part wear out and disable a rover is a distinct possibility at any time.

Travelers will indeed see increased security measures at our airports, train stations, and other key sights, ... There will be higher levels of surveillance, more stringent searches. Airport curbside luggage check-in will no longer be allowed. There will be more security officers and random identification checks.

Usually on tour, each night, we'll call a random song and we'll end up playing it in a way we hadn't thought of before, songs that we had not thought of touching or had sworn off, because they have a connotation of oldness. We're like all right, whatever, we'll just do it, and it'll sound fresh and new. It's a sign of three dudes who like to play together.

I was one of the key people responsible for building Facebook's News Feed. When we launched it in 2006, users hated it. There were 'I Hate Facebook' groups; random people organized protests. We even hired a security team.

We don't conduct random sweeps. Our actions are carefully planned. We know who we are targeting and why. We don't wait at playgrounds or have checkpoints in grocery stores. We don't lie in wait and swoop down on people.

We don't erect walls around this campus. In fact, we invite the community to be a part of our campus. These random incidents are hard to handle.

We got away from having so many random offensive situations. We got a little better executing our plays. Against New York, I thought we got great shots against their zone, and they just didn't go in.

There are few things so futile, and few so amusing, As a peaceful and purposeless sort of perusing Of old random jottings set down in a blank book You've unearthed from a drawer as you looked for your bank book

We've taken every measure possible to make sure that everything is random and fair.

The raw odds are 1 in 25 (in getting a scholarship), ... And the average amount received is about $1,600. If you're just a random student, C average, no interesting hobbies, you're unlikely to get aid.

Trade is pretty random right now. We are just groping. Were it not for the situation in the Capital Building the dollar might not have been off at all.

We don't know what we are going to do with this. It's really random with all the ways that we're thinking. Some are very literal and some are very non-literal, but we have no idea where we're going right now.

Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?

When I write songs, it's very random. I get influenced by the most random things! Sometimes it just comes to me in my sleep or just hanging out in a restaurant or something. Music just comes to me, and I'll start writing from there.

My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there's not much deserving about the matter.

We view the change in vehicle prices in the PPI as a random shift and one that does not reflect reality.

When I was coming out of depression, I made one random video. It wasn't funny or anything, but just the idea that people I didn't know were watching it made me feel less alone than I'd felt in a long time.

We are all sickened by these continual random acts of violence that are sweeping our country,

We're going to implement an element of random secondary inspections at the checkpoint. But because it's random, we're not going to offer any details.

This suggests that this is not random but is being done on an almost scientific and systematic basis.

Drug Court requires no plea to be made while undergoing the program, while diversion does, plus, Drug Court requires random drug testing and diversion does not.

At this point, it appears to be a random act, and while nothing has been ruled out, it does not appear to be drug-related. We cannot say at this point what -- if anything -- was taken from the house. Unfortunately, there is no further description on the men.

What parents usually hear are the random snorts and sniffles of air passing through mucus and secretions in the nose and throat.

You hit a bunch of keys at random to see why the system seems to have hung; you don't realize that the system has turned off echo so that you can type your secret encryption key, ... I've seen people try for hours to bang the keyboard in the exact same way.

Every player who was part of the investigation who's still in the league is being tested up to 24 times a year, which is the most important element of putting an end to this, ... That's why we have not had repeat offenders. That's as important or more important than the discipline. It's testing people up to 24 times a year on a random basis.

At the beginning of the year, we test everybody one time. After everybody's been tested initially, we do random testing throughout the year, ... Now, if we have reasonable suspicion ... we can have that student drug tested.

The second half we settled in more and just played a little bit more focused. This was just kind of a random game. It was a tough flow to get into, but we hung in there with our defense.

When you have this disease, you can't ever go to the doctor by yourself. You just can't do that kind of a thing alone. You have to take anyone: friends, family, even a random guy from the street.

These are random and odds ways to gauge what the public thinks.

These are random targets, and they don't hit what we know are the greatest areas of interest on Mars.

The sad fact is, if 500 random people around the world, with some leadership, were injected with an evil virus and they were to decide, fanatically, they would devote the next 5 years of their lives to figuring out how to hurt America and try to implement it, the odds are too high that they could succeed.

We know that it was not a random act.

We think random drug testing is inappropriate, particularly in areas that are not safety jobs. For an engineer on a train, perhaps it's appropriate. But for most of us, why should we submit to a drug test? They are humiliating, offensive and intrusive.

We've never tested and we never will test prices based on customer demographics, ... What we did was a random price test, and even that was a mistake because it created uncertainty for customers rather than simplifying their lives.