Contrivances Examples Quotes & Sayings

Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago. — Keith Henson

God is found in the collection of Many ... rather than in the One. — Dan Brown

I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport. — Harbhajan Singh

I am what I do, and that's partly why I don't want to give up singing. But when I can't sing well, I will. — Don McLean

Don't need to remind any of you what Tarkin did at the end of the war when there weren't Jedi around to keep a lid on the violence and retribution. We wouldn't be aboard this ship otherwise. The Emperor is going to win-now the populations of the galaxy until the only ones left are the ones he can control. And he and Vader and Tarkin are going to accomplish that with an army of steadfast recruits who might as well be clones for the little independent thinking they do, weapons that haven't been seen in more than a thousand years, and fear. — James Luceno

Every now and then I feel like I am only receiving one track of a stereo recording, and this was one such time. I had no idea what - well, to be honest, I didn't even have an idea what to have an idea about. — Jeff Lindsay

No goal, regardless of how small can be achieved without adequate training. — Taiichi Ohno

The older view of the nature of heat was that it is a substance, very fine and imponderable indeed, but indestructible, and unchangeable in quantity, which is an essential fundamental property of all matter. — Hermann Von Helmholtz

It is the only time that I can ever remember the Prime Minister reading out the conclusions of a meeting that did not take place. They were already written before it started. — Michael Heseltine