W. S. Gilbert Quotations | Page 4

And I am right, And you are right, Modified rapture!

The findings of our research are pretty tripped out-the idea that one's perception, or at least one's perception, or at least one's perceptual discrimination, of the world may differ by visual field. Our paper is the first to propose that language may shape just half of our visual world.

The key is Opelt. We can't let him get comfortable. We can't let him sit back there and just pick away. What you try to do with a spread team is make them one-dimensional. Central did a nice job controlling the ball against them, and that's what we're going to try to do. Our best defense is going to be our offense.

You could leave the boat in the water, but the snow and ice is hard on it. And then you have to be careful of the ice in the water.

You could say you get frustrated at officiating, but you can't let your emotions get you down. It was frustrating for me, and I took my game to a new level. I let the refs get to me, I let the players get to me. I've got to learn, personally, to relax and go out there and keep working hard and keep doing the things I do well.

For me and for John, it really kind of opened the minds of people from all over world to open their boathouses to people who are blind, ... I've gained so much (from rowing), I'd love to see people all over the world get the same pleasure and opportunity I had.

It starts with the front office and coaching staff. There is nothing more important on the basketball side of the operation than having those two areas in place.

It just really depends on how he's feeling and how the surgery goes. This is obviously pretty major surgery. They're going to wait and see. We should have a better idea by Friday.

It's ludicrous, ... I'm not going to dignify his rude, disrespectful comments with a response. I'm not going to say anything bad about him. He's a great guy. He's just misguided and misinformed.

It's the best feeling, with me being a senior in my last game of my career. This is the best feeling ever. This is the best group of guys, best university, best fans in college hockey, best coaching staff. This is a dream come true.

It's also foolproof. You can't make mistakes with the Aga. It's very forgiving and it's fabulous for entertaining because you have so many compartments.

It's not unusual for a decision of this magnitude to lag by a few months.

It's not like football where the officials take two or three minutes to review the call. The umpire sees it in 10 seconds, so it doesn't disrupt play at all.

It's a historic agreement. This is a big day for all hockey fans who care about the tradition of the Stanley Cup.

As you get a little older, you see the world a little differently and you realize that education is really the thing that can solve a lot of our problems.

That's a big shift for the marketplace. The cornerstone is the connection back to the hospitals. It really makes this a lot different than some of the other models out there.

As a farmer, I want farmland to remain in farming.

There was something in the waste stream that wasn't supposed to be there or was there without the knowledge of the company that generated the waste.

This means it was a slam dunk one way or the other.

You don't want to put it back in the water now; you want to have it look nice. You have to scrape all the paint down where the cracks are, because you can't paint that; it would look terrible. Then you take seam compound and fill all of those in.

There was huge animosity toward people (who bought foreign cars).

They matched up with us out of their zone. We made adjustments and were able to take advantage of the mismatches. We made some excellent passes and shots.

They gave her a leash and a trained animal, ... and she ran with it.

It's a tight race in the WCHA and we know these points are so important.

It was definitely a wake-up call for us. It was good for us to realize that any team can come in and win, that we've got to be ready and we've got to be going all three periods.

We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought.

We will stay where they tell us to lie down,

It's a children's disaster kit, in there's a little stuffed animal to love.

It was the consensus that anyone who was going to be playing and having an important role this year was behind the coach. We're optimistic about this season; there's a lot to prove after last year.

We have 40,000 visits to this emergency room yearly. We have 186 patients in the hospital today, 25 critically ill. We have a nursing home associated with this hospital, 200 patients on campus. We provide 1,000 hot meals a day to the elderly in this community,

We kind of made an adjustment on that play because we told Drew to look back side. We were going to run a curl, but we said if they bring their safety down we can get a post behind them. We thought that's the one thing we have with Josh, that he could be a great playmaker.

We want to ensure that companies are able to efficiently adopt this new technology. Our RFID consultants can confidently and quickly evaluate the impact of Generation 2 to customers' RFID processes and infrastructure and guide them through the hardware updates, potential configuration changes and system testing that will be required, as well as provide some education on Generation 2's benefits.

It?s getting to the point where more and more health care can be done in an outpatient setting. We?re predicting as much as 50 percent will be delivered in an outpatient environment in the future.

It's good learning for us this weekend. It's a tight race down to the end in the WCHA, and it doesn't matter who we're playing or where we're playing. We can't take any game lightly the rest of the year.

It's his first game back in a month and he looked good out there. He made the first save and did what he had to do.

It's been a theme. We don't want to separate.

It's going to be a nice-looking building, I think.

This man and his wife were involved with Make-A-Wish,

This last discovery illuminated the mechanism of protein synthesis: the protein chain is transferred in turn from one amino-acid-bearing transfer RNA to another as it grows, their order dictated by messenger RNA and ultimately by the genetic code on the DNA.

They're as good of players as we have in the area. We've got to grow up right away. We always want to win league and we want to go deep in the playoffs.

They're moving forward, the youngest just got her second report-card, she got all S's so she's doing well in school the oldest just got another car, so she's moving forward too.

They really couldn't tell us anything real concrete that would tell us what caused this. As soon as the situation stabilizes, we're going to start an investigation.

They're in position to win the league because they know how to win at the end of the game.

I can't describe how I feel. It's something you work for all year.

I came out and saw the girl stumbling out of the car. I asked her if she was OK. She said yeah. She was worried that it was her mother's car.

I'd feel more comfortable if multiples were lower.

Hearts just as pure and fair / May beat in Belgrave Square / As in the lowly air / Of Seven Dials.

He can do it all, especially this year, he's proven that. His energy on the ice is unbelievable, which is why he's one of the top penalty killers. Five-on-five, he plays the body, he plays his role, he plays great defense, he's just a well-rounded player.

The medical personnel's office is located where the president walks past it on his way to and from the Oval Office, ... So they see the president. They see if he looks well. They see if he seems tired, or looks tired.

The list of genes that will come out of the genome project will be the tool that turns our questions into global ones.

The constitutional guardian I, / Of pretty young Wards in Chancery.

And all is right as right can be.

I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.

As is gloriously sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore," in the words of W. S. Gilbert: "Things are seldom as they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream."

He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.

Isn't your life extremely flat,With nothing to grumble at?

Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.

The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.

Life's a pudding full of plums.

Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?

It's love that makes the world go round.

Roll on, thou ball, roll on! Through pathless realms of Space

every Jack He must study the knack If he wants to make sure of his Jill!

The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State.

I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.

Life is a joke that's just begun.

Man is nature's sole mistake.

Things are seldom what they seem.

A policeman's lot is not a happy one

Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your languid spleen, An attachment a la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a not-too-French French bean!

So I fell in love with a rich attorney's Elderly ugly daughter.

Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest: Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers: Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers!

When in that House MPs divide/If they've a brain and cerebellum, too/They've got to leave that brain outside/And vote just as their leaders tell 'em to.

Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.

poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished

Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.

It's true I've got no shirts to wear; It's true my butcher's bill is due; It's true my prospects all look blue-- But don't let that unsettle you

Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.

If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack, You may get a bland smile from these sages; But should it, by chance, be imported from France, Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!

Oh, don't the days seem lank and long When all goes right and nothing goes wrong, And isn't your life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble at!

Bless your heart, they don't mind--they're exceedingly kind-- They don't blame you--as long as you're funny!

Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon.

I often think it's comical How Nature always does contrive That every boy and every gal That's born into the world alive Is either a little Liberal Or else a little Conservative!

Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.

To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.

Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.

If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere.

I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.

When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety.

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

See how the Fates their gifts allot, For A is happy-B is not. Yet B is worthy, I dare say, Of more prosperity than A.

There's a fascination frantic in a ruin that's romantic.

When a felon s not engaged in his employment, Or maturing his felonious little plans, His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest mans.

He led his regiment from behind. He found it less exciting.

The Law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent; it has no kind of fault or flaw and I, my Lords, embody the Law.

I know everybody's income and what everybody earns, And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns

I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer, I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer; To everybody's prejudice I know a thing or two; I can tell a woman's age in half a minute--and I do

What though I cannot meet my bills? What though I suffer toothache's ills? What though I swallow countless pills?

When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte, As every child can tell, The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well