Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

So one time when I was working in this motel one of the toilets leaked and I had to replace the flapper ball. Here's what it said on the package; I kept it till I knew it by heart: 'Please Note. Parts are included for all installations, but no installation requires all of the parts.' That's kind of my philosophy about men. I don't think there's an installation out there that could use all my parts.

Baruch Spinoza

I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.

Augustine Birrell

History is a pageant and not a philosophy.

Ayelet Waldman

Those of us whose parenting style can be described as "a series of reflexes, instincts, and minute-by-minute adjustments," as Julie of A Little Pregnant puts it, rather than as a philosophy, are less invested in our own practices. What we do is often less a matter of conviction than one of convenience. What we need to remember is that there is no need to apologize for that, even in the face of the most red-faced outrage.

Ayn Rand

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

Brian Henson

And again, we're kind of trying to be in that place, that's just so absurd and irreverent and hysterical and it's something that at our company we're kind of, we're so irreverent about everything, we're sort of irreverent about the establishment, we're irreverent about civilization, we're irreverent about philosophy, we're irreverent about religion.

Brenda Song

I'd have to say I'm pretty adventurous. I just went to Shanghai for the Special Olympics and I tried dim sum. I'd never really had it before and some of it looked pretty scary, but I tried it anyway. My philosophy is, you're not going to know if you like it until you try it.

Jamie Sives

I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it's been the right one for me.

Janis Ian

Truth is not the enemy and whatever does not kill us, sets us free.

Sxip Shirey

I'm the anti indie-rocker. My stuff isn't ironic.

Michael Buckley

How ironic, she thought, as she fell to her certain death, that at that moment she would have given anything to be a giant goose again.

Jacques Derrida

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

Philip Levine

It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work.

Julian Barnes

Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.

Ron Scott

It's an ironic time to be having a party in Detroit.

Dave Ramsey

Be intense, passionate, and fired up, but about things that matter, things that change your life and your legacy.

Albert Einstein

I was just more stubborn and more passionate than most about physics.

Michelle Obama

Be passionate about something and lean to that strength.

Seth Godin

Catering to the passionate is exactly what you should do.

Tom Cruise

I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.

Mark Zuckerberg

Find that thing you are super passionate about.

Michio Kaku

To become a theoretical physicist ... you need to have a passionate love affair with the universe.

Mehmet Oz

I meditate and I'm passionate about it.

Jason Alexander

Poker is just a hobby I'm passionate about. It's not supposed to bring glory.