Frances Hesselbein

I never had any question about the direction we were going in at the Girl Scouts. We shared our mission and research with all levels of leaders from the very beginning - a concept I created, using cups and saucers, called 'circular management.' Everyone was on a team; there were no superiors or subordinates. There was respect for all people.

American Businessman

Gaspar Noe

I don't believe in life after death. But I still enjoyed the idea of doing a movie that would portray that collective dream, that collective need. Like flying saucers are a collective need for people who need to believe in flying saucers. You don't need to believe in flying saucers to do a movie about Martians or flying saucers.

Argentinian Director

Seth Shostak

You may not see massive UFO exhibits at your local science museum, but there's no dearth of saucer stories infesting my email. Every day, I receive several reports of alien sightings, extraterrestrial plans for Earth, and agitated screeds about the reluctance of scientists to take the whole subject seriously.

American Scientist

Ingrid Newkirk

Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck.

British Activist

Rick Moranis

I have forty-six cookbooks. I have sixty-eight takeout menus from four restaurants. I have one hundred and sixteen soy sauce packets. I have three hundred and eighty-two dishes, bowls, cups, saucers, mugs and glasses. I eat over the sink. I have five sinks, two with a view.

Canadian Actor

Ray Harryhausen

I was very limited in what I could do with flying saucers, because they're just a metal disc. I had to try and put character in as if they were intelligently guided.

American Director

Patti Smith

My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.

American Musician

John G. Diefenbaker

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.

Canadian Statesman

Johnny Mathis

No, I don't regret my decision at all, especially after I started this music career. My eyes were as big as saucers.

Nigel Kneale

People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.

English Writer

Understanding 'saucer' helps comprehend other dining-related words like 'plate', 'bowl', etc.

Tableware Vocabulary

In some cultures, saucers are customary; understanding this displays etiquette awareness.

Cultural Relevance

Expressions like 'set the table' include placing saucers under cups for guests.

Hospitality Phrases

Flying saucers are often featured in sci-fi and alien-related movies and TV shows.

Pop Culture

'Flying saucer' is an old term for UFOs, dating back to the 1940s.

Historical Slang

Using 'flying saucer' can imply skepticism about alien spacecraft being real.

Skeptical Contexts

Use 'saucer-shaped' to describe objects with a shallow, concave round profile.

Shape Descriptions

'Saucer' can describe buildings or structures with domed or rounded shapes.

Architecture

 there we're looking for them out there but they're here right sailing the skies and their saucers and occasionally abducting people for experiments their parents wouldn't approve of well that would be interesting if it was true in job security for me but I don't think the evidence is very good that's more you know sad and significant but there

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 was travelling around the world and having adventures in the deep sea in submarines and now the past the world it was quickly realized that the diving saucer provided an excellent means for gaining much of this information as I grew older I realized that camera work was a way of coming closer to that understanding it

What Does It Take To Be...

 So eggs are laid in and around sources of water, and then, when it rains, or tides come into the wetlands, these eggs hatch, and out of these eggs hatch these wormlike larvae that swim around in the water. Maybe you’ve seen them in puddles or your pot plant saucers. Or maybe, as I did as a child,

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 to tell the truth. It's easy to fool ourselves. I saw something, but what's more likely -- that I saw an alien spacecraft, or that my brain misinterpreted the data my eyes were giving it? Ever since though I've Why don't we see flying saucers flitting around?

Where are all the...

 and finally the manager came over to me and said, "I am very sorry. We do not have sugar." Well, since I couldn't have my tea the way I wanted it, I ordered a cup of coffee, which the waiter brought over promptly. Resting on the saucer

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 is something extraordinary that they don't go together you see a light in the sky moving and you can't explain it that does not mean it's an intelligent alien coming from another planet to come that's in a flying saucer observing us

Listening for Aliens PIPE...

 I call it the hockey puck. And we got the same remarkable results. And then it was onto the saucer. That's 200 watt-hours. The technology was proving itself to be robust and scalable. But the pace wasn't fast enough for us.

Donald Sadoway: The...

 but Hollywood goes to the chase. And in this movie, we see what we think is out flying saucers and aliens. Every world has an alien, and every alien world has a flying saucer, and they move about with great speed. Aliens.

Earth's mass extinctions...

 goes to the chase and in this movie we see what we think is out there flying saucers and aliens every world has an alien and every alien world has the flying saucer and they move about with great speed

Earth's mass extinction...

 and, occasionally, kidnapping us in their flying saucers and taking us away to have sex with us in pyramids. It's a difficult theory to discount, I think you'll agree. For even in my own life,

Saucer

A small round dish that you put a cup on.

Often appears as...

A flying saucer: something that some people believe is a spacecraft from another planet.

Often appears as...

Something that is shaped like a dish or a cup put on a small round dish.

Often appears as...

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