Sample Quotations

In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

I've been around a long time, and when I was at the top of the hill, I was very ahead of my time! Evidence of that is that my music is still current today - you know, rappers sample it all the time. So, rather than compromise my artistic integrity, I concentrated on movies.

When you shop online, wouldn't you like to sample the bouquet of wines, the aroma of cigars, or the subtle fragrance of flowers before surrendering your credit card number? Surely more companies will want to aromatize their Web presence when they realize there's a device that can produce genuinely pleasing, authentic fragrances.

If you really care about Facebook likes, don't just post your stuff to Twitter and then rely on it being republished automatically to Facebook. In my sample size of one, Facebook penalizes you significantly for that and shows that content to far fewer people.

Honestly, I don't think I'm a good promoter. I spend almost zero time or effort asking new readers to sample or purchase my work. That's not the job of the author. We should write our best material and leave it up to readers to spread the word.

If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

I had to realize that the use of samples has its rules, too.

In the 1980s, in the communist Eastern Germany, if you owned a typewriter, you had to register it with the government. You had to register a sample sheet of text out of the typewriter. And this was done so the government could track where text was coming from.

God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.

The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.

I'd love to visit South America, especially Argentina, as I'm a winemaker myself. They do a fantastic malbec, so it would be a dream to sample their grapes. New Zealand would be great, too. I'm a golfer, so it would combine both my loves.

I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample.

It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.

I even do my ready-to-wear samples like couture.

I'm a sucker for a sale. I don't understand why anyone wants to pay full price for anything because everything goes on sale. I love sale websites. In fact - this is almost kind of embarrassing - I'm coming from an Isabel Marant sample sale.

Some observations can only be done from the ground, such as listen for the sonic boom and observing the hot air trail in the wake of the sample return capsule drift in front of the Moon.

One thing you find out when you net a lake this size is there's a lot of variability. One net will be loaded with fish, and another will have hardly any. You try to reduce the variability with a larger sample size.

One-third of the national sample said all illegal aliens should be sent home now; one-third say they support guest-worker status accorded to some form and some period of time, and one-third said let them all stay.

One hit can get the audience's faith back that a comedy can be good. They've been exposed to so many dire, bad half-hour shows that the expectation is that any half-hour comedy is going to be the same stale stuff we've seen. So there's a disinclination to sample them.

One-and-7 obviously isn't the way you want to start. But the (Dodgers) team I managed last year started 12-2 and we won 71 games. So it's not a large enough sample size of games. It doesn't mean this is the kind of team we're going to be for the next six months.

I found myself at the beginning of 'Mad Men,' because I wasn't a sample size, spending an exorbitant amount of money on a nice dress that I would never wear again because someone would say - 'Christina Hendricks wore this dress twice.'

Getting a sample from a comet but not landing on it, is probably the best chance we have of discovering what the solar system was like 4.5 billion years ago.

Given the number of people involved in the organization, from the minor-league system through the major leagues, we don't feel their numbers are suggestive of anything. The sample is too small. Any real conclusion is unfair.

If a scent sent to us matches with any sample from our bank, then we have a clue.

But this thing stinks. It's not good for me. And the unfortunate thing is that you potentially dealt with something that you have to face for the rest of your life. And like I said, the protocol wasn't followed and there is no backup sample to confirm what they say is a positive test.

We then resorted to watching them through a telescope and marked the places where they landed to pick up sample droppings for viral tests,

There is a high level of upset among voters who feel their franchise was violated, ... One voter said she got a sample ballot in the mail, filled out all the little circles, then took it to the polls. It wasn't until she saw the discussion later in the news that she realized she had picked the wrong circle.

Lance Armstrong is one of the most tested athletes in the history of sport and he has come up clean every single time. This kind of years-ago testing of a single sample with new technology is completely without credibility.

Mass spectrometry is one of the most sensitive methods for finding drugs, chemicals, pollutants and disease, but the problem is that you have to extract a sample and treat that sample before you can analyze it.

...someone might slip dragon dung in it again eh, Perce?" said Fred. "That was a sample of fertiliser from Norway!" said Percy, going very red in the face, "It was nothing personal!" "It was," Fred whispered to Harry, as they got up from the table. "We sent it.

I sample a little bit of everything - a bit of 'House,' a little bit of 'Prison Break.' I love 'Project Runway;' it's my favorite show!

Our research focuses on the oldest stars, and probes the earliest phases of the evolution of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. The unprecedented sample available with RAVE will allow me -- and now, with the release of this data, others -- to test ideas of our origins laid out by various cosmological theories.

People have told us it's a way to both sample new authors and stay in touch with beloved authors between books.

I saw criticism of the plan that the sample size isn't large enough. It's not quantity. It's quality.

Our job is to give them an exciting product and make their tickets more affordable, which we're doing, and get them back to sample the product.

It could take weeks, or it could be announced tomorrow. And there's always the chance that they'll say the sample was inconclusive after all this time.

Over the course of time, student-athletes decide to leave the university for different reasons. All of those students are reflected in this report. With basketball only having 26 in its sample size, it doesn't take a whole lot of those kinds of incidents to lower that number.

Our cafe keeps the name recognition out there and serves as a place where clients can come in to discuss arrangements or sample the menu selections.

Katie will be the brand of CBS News...You will see her face attached to every CBS product out there. Katie has 15 years of history with people...That's the power of celebrity. The challenge for CBS will be to produce a compelling enough newscast to keep those curiosity seekers who sample the show coming back.

We know that we can steer it sufficiently to sample another region of the crater.

You know I have not seen people doing back flips about the fact that he's mountain biking. But I think we'll see a few more people getting into it. I know the governor has turned into quite a cyclist, and I think there are other people out there that will probably sample it now that the president has given it a go.

You'll be able to sample the food the caterers have, which is so important when selecting a caterer for your special day.

We're all about getting the fans involved. A lot of what we do is about getting people to sample our product, and people wanting to come back for more when they see how far the league and the game has come since we first started. We want to continue expanding in the future, and we want to continue attracting better talent.

We received a sample lamp several years ago at a TRIAD meeting. We started looking into the price but it was prohibitive so we didn't pursue it. Late last year we decided to get the police department and Echo Hose Ambulance involved so we could get the program started.

We've seen some changes in testing, I can test a sample of hay--after I get it to the lab -- in as little as ten minutes, if I do a wet test.

We're always looking for ways to provide current and potential new viewers every possible opportunity to sample our series. We want to be where the viewers are, and this exclusive partnership with Yahoo! gives us the chance to target an expanded online audience for TWO AND A HALF MEN and HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER at a time of the year when many potential viewers are home on vacation and surfing the Internet.

This proposal shows that the Council will produce research of the highest quality. This research has the potential to bring significant improvements to audience measurement. Results could offer new models for recruitment as well as improved sample representation.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.

We are continuing to sample the air throughout the affected area to make sure there's nothing hazardous. What the actual cause of the smell is, we really don't know.

We want to make children more comfortable with taking the test. We are focusing a lot more on the writing sample the third graders will have to do.

The data we are making public today is twice the sample size of any previous survey, and has extremely high quality. Other astronomers can definitely use these data in their work. All they have to do is go to our Web site and download it.

XM Satellite Radio offers an extraordinary variety of music for all kinds of tastes, and we're very pleased that United Airlines' customers will have the opportunity to sample the exclusive, commercial-free music channels that have helped make XM the nation's leading satellite radio company.

Let probability and sample size do the heavy lifting.

We've been doing constant air sample monitoring, and there has been no increase in radiation levels.

We were really successful in obtaining a large sample size this year. Without (hunters') cooperation, we would have been unable to survey the health of this herd.

When people come up on Highway 94 . . . they can come out and sample wine and purchase wine. Eventually, that would be nice.

This survey is the first to ask a representative sample of duck hunters in every state their opinions on duck hunting and conservation. The results of this effort will better inform fish and wildlife agencies about the views of duck hunters throughout this country and will aid in the development of hunting regulations.

There is a big part of the prime demographic ù that key 18- to 49-year-old market ù that is hungry to sample this model. Not everyone can do appointment viewing when ABC decides to put a hit program on. So the convenience factor is becoming a driving force in the filmed entertainment business right now. This is going to get Disney a great sample of what people want, and if they're willing to pay for it.

There is a big part of the prime demographic that key 18- to 49-year-old market that is hungry to sample this model. Not everyone can do appointment viewing when ABC decides to put a hit program on. So the convenience factor is becoming a driving force in the filmed entertainment business right now. This is going to get Disney a great sample of what people want, and if they're willing to pay for it.

When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.

We've got another semen sample that's being flown in from Tulsa (Oklahoma) so we'll be doing another one tonight.

Segmenting your sample is one of the easiest ways to simplify.

Many of us think of salespeople as people travelling around with sample kits. Instead, we are all salesman, every day of our lives.

We would still love to see a sample of this and determine if this is a potential threat to our customers. It's a little bit disappointing that they are not sharing the sample.

Usually it's just a concert, but we've had extensive celebrations recently. Four to five restaurants have donated in the past, and we've been able to sample the food and have contests, too.

We know we have the largest properties in the sample and what we are missing is going to be very small.

DNA gets everywhere. So when we're dealing with a sample and you find it's got human DNA in it - is that DNA from the fossil, or is it actually DNA from the person who unearthed it?

We're ignorant of life in the universe. We only have one planet that serves as an example and in science it's not good to derive information from a sample size of one.

As traditional Liberal voters become dismayed by Paul Martin's campaign, they're finding a comfortable new home in the NDP. This ad features just a small sample of them.

The testing they do for the B sample is more sophisticated than the A sample. I've had cases where the A sample came up positive and the B sample came up negative.

The subordinate is likely to feel that the examiner has taken a sample of his bone marrow.

(With) such a large sample size, we feel confident about the data.

And you get to sample from the new olds.

It would be prohibitively expensive to sample all of the soil and water surrounding a lab just to identify substances without addressing them.

You drew such a positive profile of me from this sample that I can only say: I like it!

We've had a member whose leg was carved up as they took a sample of leg hair.

I've never been one to think it was cheating to sample this or to loop the drum part there - I've always done that. Even using four-track cassette recorders, I was always doing whatever I could to make it as good as I could.

A verbal appeal is not enough, and we require a formal application. It has not yet been decided as to when sample B will be tested.

Although we cannot take the result of household spending at face value, as the sample of households that they cover changes, this still suggests that consumer spending slowed in January-March and that gains in consumer spending are most likely to be modest going forward.

A lot of people are dissatisfied with the so-called mainstream media, and they'll sample us? When you're abroad, you buy and read The International Herald Tribune. Here, you read The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times. You're a regular reader of The New Republic. Probably the same itch that makes you exercise your brain on dense, serious news organs will make you watch us.

They took the sample back then and put in on a computer database where it sat. When they arrested (Parrish), they took blood and ran it through the system to see if there were any matches, and they got a hit on our burglary.

Protocol wasn't followed and there is no back-up sample to confirm what they say is a positive test,

Engineers can start with our sample programs, which range from 'Hello World' to a Web server and network connection.

There's a first year for everything and there is a growth process. This is a small sample of what we are going to do, and we think it was a huge success.

We think the sudden reversal of expectations was only partly the result of cooling thoughts about the future. The rest was a result of statistical variability in the sample polled as we indicated it might be last month.

This comet formed at very edge of the solar system ... out by pluto ... and spent all its lifetime out there until recently it came into the inner part of the solar system, where we could sample it.

This analysis relies on self-reported data that is updated irregularly. However, we used the driver's license data because we have an enormous sample and because we have addresses. These two advantages outweigh any potential bias in the weight information.

This is such a very different type of DNA testing than people know about. It's very different from forensic DNA analysis, where you are trying to match a sample to a specific crime suspect. This is kinship, and you will never get an exact match between a mother and a son. You get what's known as a probability of a relationship.

Including college viewing in the national ratings will give our clients a more complete picture of television viewing, particularly among young adults. Nielsen is continuously striving to improve the accuracy and completeness of its measurements. Expanding the National sample to include out-of-home college students is one of many initiatives we are pursuing.

Initially, a sample sale was for 'insiders' only. It started as a designer thanking his friends and the editors who'd helped and supported him by selling designer clothing to them at extremely low prices. Now everyone is getting in on the act.

If our sample is representative of the larger youth sport population, this finding would suggest that there are nearly 2 million kids being physically abused by their coaches each year.

If 'Joey' tests positive at the high school, it's called a 'non-negative,' ... We're going to take that sample over to the hospital and go further with the testing and make sure what we got is accurate.

Inside this thing is our treasure, our sample of the edge of the solar system that truly contains star dust.

Instead of sending a sample to a laboratory where they do some kind of elaborate analysis and eventually give you a result, they'll just have you blow on this chip and have the results then and there.

If you're just getting started, you let people sample your work. You slowly establish your credibility and your value gets higher.

Sun's urine sample taken after the Beijing International Marathon returned negative results, so she can keep her title for the marathon race.

Taste Washington is one of the largest wine events in the nation highlighting a single wine region, providing connoisseurs and novices alike with the opportunity to mingle with Washington winemakers, sample hundreds of award winning wines and learn from leading experts in the field. We are introducing some changes to Taste Washington this year to bring the focus back to wine and create a more relaxed, intimate tasting experience for attendees. With more than 380 wineries located in virtually every corner of the state, our 'Ultimate Wine Tour' theme shines a spotlight on the many touring regions wine enthusiasts can visit, and reinforces the message that Washington state truly is wine country.

Any time there is a convicted felon, their sample is entered in the database, which can then be compared to any forensic unknown samples.

The intended use of a free sample is to allow a patient to evaluate side effects and effectiveness for a couple of weeks before actually buying the drug,