The nature for Sam's leaps are uncontrolled and unknown to the Project Quantum Leap team, attributing it to " God, time, fate, or whatever ", but generally to " put right what once went wrong ", as per the opening narration.

" We are convinced that the great writers have told their own story in their works ", wrote Chateaubriand in Génie du christianisme, " one only truly describes one's own heart by attributing it to another, and the greater part of genius is composed of memories.

Roger Ebert called the film " winsome, charming, sweet and slight ", but gave it only two-and-a-half out of four stars, attributing some of the film's flaws to the original material stating, " All is light and winning, and yet somehow empty.

Clark also said Gwynn was " 50 pounds overweight ", attributing to his lower stolen base total.

The inscription of the Karabel rock-carved prince-warrior monument in Mount Nif was read as attributing it to " Tarkasnawa, Kingdom of Mira | King of Mira ", a part of the Kingdom of Arzawa.

200px The word " blurb ", meaning a short description of a book, film, or other product written for promotional purposes, was coined by Burgess in 1907, in attributing the cover copy of his book, Are You a Bromide ?, to a Miss Belinda Blurb.

IGN described the character as a " cult favorite " amongst fans, attributing the reaction to its " bizarre, bewildered appearance ", as well as citing it as a favorite character around their offices.

However, the Báb appears to mention him only occasionally, if ever, specifically as " Subh-i-Azal ", while attributing others with the title.

In a November 2006 article in Australia's The Daily Telegraph, journalist Piers Akerman quoted Houghton as saying " Unless we announce disasters, no one will listen ", attributing the quotation to his 1994 book Global Warming, The Complete Briefing.

He maintained that only the " Caucasian " descendants of Adam were capable of creating civilisation, and tried to explain away the numerous non -" Caucasian " civilisations by attributing them all to a vanished " Caucasian ", race, the Hamites.

" While defending Darwin's honest motives and belief that " he was exalting & not debasing our views of a Creator, in attributing to him a power of imposing laws on the Organic World by which to do his work, as effectually as his laws imposed upon the inorganic had done it in the Mineral Kingdom ", Henslow had not disguised his own opinion that " Darwin has pressed his hypothesis too far ".

This is also known as the pathetic fallacy, ' a term coined by John Ruskin ... for the practice of attributing human emotions to the inanimate or unintelligent world ' - as in ' the sentimental poetic trope of the " pathetic fallacy ", beloved of Theocritus, Virgil and their successors ' in the pastoral tradition.

A pious fraud can be counterfeiting a miracle or falsely attributing a sacred text to a biblical figure due to the belief that the " end justifies the means ", in this case the end of increasing faith by whatever means available.

Copernicus used three of them in " De revolutionibus ", giving only longitudes, and falsely attributing them to Schöner.

He has even been quoted saying, " I was that guy in acting class that, while everyone was reading Mamet and O ' Neill, I was reading Batman comics ", thus attributing his love of animation and graphic storytelling to making his career in voice acting the natural choice for him.

Garry Kasparov gives the date of the game as 1928, and the name of Najdorf's opponent as " Glinksberg ", attributing these facts to Najdorf and his daughter.

", attributing high finance as America's involvement in World War I.

This is analogous to the fact that there is always some nonzero probability that a fair coin will produce a surprising amount of consecutive flips, e. g. there is a chance that one will get 20 straight flips of " tails ", without attributing any " clutch " characteristics to the coin.

They were called " Saturday Night Specials ", in a derisive nod to cheap handguns then called by that name and were worn for the first and last time on May 19, 1979, a 10 – 5 loss to the Expos.

The Americans in the novel respond to their conquerors ' racism by often referring to them in unflattering terms, such as " flat face ", " slanty " ( a derisive reference to the look typical of Asian eyes ), and " monkey boy ".

* 1950 — Fred Hoyle coins the term " Big Bang ", saying that it was not derisive ; it was just a striking image meant to highlight the difference between that and the Steady-State model.

Recorded days before the record ban, Jones scored a huge broadcast hit late in 1942 with " Der Fuehrer's Face ", a song ridiculing Adolf Hitler that followed every use of the word " Heil " with a derisive razzberry sound, as in the repeated phrase " Heil, ( razzberry ), Heil ( razzberry ), right in Der Fuehrer's face!

The station's pink logo led to the derisive nickname " Barbie Radio ", and Booker & Lopez did little more on the air than talk about Jennifer Lopez, Lynda's older sister.

Regardless, the name and logo were roundly criticized by advocates for the rights of the mentally ill, believing that they were derived from a derisive term for a person suffering from mental illness, " maniac ", and / or a depiction of a deranged axe-wielding murderer, despite that there was no picture of an axe in the logo.

Lowe later said that the team would no longer have to hear " 1918 ", a derisive chant mocking the Red Sox's previously most recent title win, at Yankee Stadium.

His nickname on the show is " Slam Man ", and, more recently, the derisive " Weigh More " and " Ham Man ," " Salami Man " and -- when feeling particularly fancy -- " Prosciutto Man.

In A Boy Named Charlie Brown, Violet, Patty and Lucy gleefully taunted Charlie Brown with the derisive song " Failure Face ", in a cold-hearted attempt to stop him from entering a spelling bee and to solidify in his psyche that he was nothing more than a born loser.

In 2006, Ruth Marcus, a columnist for The Washington Post, noted that " he derisive use of ' Democrat ' in this way was a Bush staple during the recent campaign ", and she chastised Bush, alleging he was being intentionally offensive.

In some circles in Washington, he was given the derisive nickname " The Tennessee Talking Horse ", as an indication of his perceived verbosity ( a title previously held by former Memphis Congressman Dan Kuykendall ).

A similar derisive usage can be seen in the original Star Trek episode " Tomorrow Is Yesterday ", set in 1969, as Captain Kirk, captured by the US Air Force while attempting to steal film showing the Enterprise in Earth's atmosphere, calls himself a " little green man from Alpha Centauri " when interrogated by the base commander.

Wood became the subject of ridicule and was tagged with the nickname " Molly Wood ", " Molly " then being a derisive slang expression for a homosexual man.

* A well-known example of antanaclasis is seen in William Shakespeare's Henry V. In Act I, scene II, the king has laid claim to the dukedoms of France, and the Dauphin's derisive response is to present him with a cask of " treasure ", which turns out to be tennis balls.

New York Daily News columnist Bob Raissman has given Waldman the derisive nickname " Georgie Girl ", an allusion to her close relationship with Steinbrenner ( and a play on the title of the 1960s hit song " Georgy Girl ").

Argon ( αργος, Greek meaning " inactive ", in reference to its chemical inactivity ) was suspected to be present in air by Henry Cavendish in 1785 but was not isolated until 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay in Scotland in an experiment in which they removed all of the oxygen, carbon dioxide, water and nitrogen from a sample of clean air.

More recent researchers, in particular Ronald Willis and Joy Munns have studied the tour in detail and concluded that the presentation was made after a private cricket match played over Christmas 1882 when the English team were guests of Sir William Clarke, at his property " Rupertswood ", in Sunbury, Victoria.

In November 1830, he and William Lloyd Garrison founded what he later called a " preliminary Anti-Slavery Society ", though he differed from Garrison as a nonresistant.

William Walker ( composer ) | William Walker, the composer who first joined John Newton's verses to " New Britain ", to create the song that has become " Amazing Grace "

Common meter hymns were interchangeable with a variety of tunes ; more than twenty musical settings of " Amazing Grace " circulated with varying popularity until 1835 when William Walker assigned Newton's words to a traditional song named " New Britain ", which was itself an amalgamation of two melodies (" Gallaher " and " St. Mary ") first published in the Columbian Harmony by Charles H. Spilman and Benjamin Shaw ( Cincinnati, 1829 ).

Abbotsford gave its name to the " Abbotsford Club ", a successor of the Bannatyne and Maitland clubs, founded by William Barclay Turnbull in 1834 in Scott's honour, for printing and publishing historical works connected with his writings.

This verse is also featured in William Billing's popular Sacred Harp song " David's Lamentation ", first published in 1778.

" Throne of Gold: The Lives of the Aga Khans ", NY: William Morrow, 1996

His uncle, George Lauder, whom he referred to as " Dod ", introduced him to the writings of Robert Burns and historical Scottish heroes such as Robert the Bruce, William Wallace, and Rob Roy.

* William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy features various arcologies, namely the " projects ", which is a megastructure constructed with electricity, heat, oxygen, and food that it produced.

* The Archbishopric of Canterbury, from Its Foundation to the Norman Conquest, by John William Lamb ", Published 1971, Faith Press, from Google Book Search

William Rose Benet notes the notoriety of Abigail Hill, better known as " Mrs Masham ", a lady-in-waiting to Queen Anne.

* William White, " Housman's Latin Inscriptions ", CJ ( 1955 ) 159-166

Frederick William, known as the " Great Elector ", who had succeeded his father George William as ruler in 1640, initiated a policy of promoting immigration and religious tolerance.

Critic William Kuhn argued that much of his fiction can be read as " the memoirs he never wrote ", revealing the inner life of a politician for whom the norms of Victorian public life appeared to represent a social straitjacket – particularly with regard to his allegedly " ambiguous sexuality.

In April 2011, a representative for Andrews McMeel received a package from a " William Watterson in Cleveland Heights, Ohio ", which contained a 6 " x 8 " oil-on-board painting of Cul De Sac character Petey Otterloop, done by Watterson for the Team Cul de Sac fundraising project for Parkinson's Disease.

The Christian hymn " The Lord is in His Holy Temple ", written in 1900 by William J. Kirkpatrick, is based on verse 2: 20.

The fourth verse of William Cowper's hymn " Sometimes a Light Surprises ", written in 1779, quotes.

* McKeeman, William M. " Language Directed Computer Design ", FJCC ( 1967 ) pp. 413 – 417.

Nelson publicly encouraged this close bond with his officers and on 29 September 1798 described them as " We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ", echoing William Shakespeare's play Henry V. From this grew the notion of the Nelsonic Band of Brothers, a cadre of high-quality naval officers that served with Nelson for the remainder of his life.

William Safire considered this the coinage, but the Random House Dictionary of American Slang considers the usage " metaphorical or perhaps proverbial, rather than a concrete example of the later slang term ", and Popik likewise does not consider this the coinage.

Beginning in April 1915, Herbert ordered his subordinates cease calling him " Sir ", and to address him only by the pseudonym " Captain William McBride.

In 1977, Bixby appeared with Donna Mills, Richard Jaeckel, and William Shatner in the last episode, entitled " The Scarlet Ribbon ", of NBC's western series The Oregon Trail, starring Rod Taylor and Andrew Stevens.