Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Whewell

We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.

William Shatner

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

William James

The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.

Tracy Kidder

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives

Robert Schumann

Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?

Vincent Van Gogh

Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be caught, colour and all, would not be a picture at all, no more than a photograph.

Whittaker Chambers

Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.

William Banting

At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction.

Walter Kirn

Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outward from our movements.

Rob Zombie

The studio experience fluctuates depending on who you work with, it's not like it's all one experience. Every studio is different, every producer's personality is different. You never know what you're going to do.

Will Smith

I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.

Vivienne Westwood

If you dress up, it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well.

Ryan Stiles

I'm Jim Phillips, I have multiple personalities. I'm also a skindiver, a puppeteer, and I was the tenth president of the United States.

Wilhelm Steinitz

I am fully and entirely concentrated on the board. I never even consider my opponent's personality. So far as I am concerned, my opponent might as well be an abstraction or an automaton.

Robert Green Ingersoll

An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.

Jacques Maritain

In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality.

Patton Oswalt

I grew up in such a featureless, personality-less suburb. There was nothing to push against.

Muriel Rukeyser

Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me.

John Ashcroft

I think it is always very important for us to take those kinds of requests very seriously,

Robert Sanchez

He killed everyone with kindness at all times.

David Bowens

I think it's an even more macho thing to come out and talk about that kind of stuff.

Corey Dillon

It could get tiresome, ... It kind of wore on me.

David Sanborn

I think the kind of chronology of the whole thing was that I was making records in the 70's and 80's that used pop production values, but instrumental music; like improvising with R&B kinds of song structures, but with improvisation in them, and pop production values.

Jerry Sanders

I think the problem is you can't just kind of reveal things,

Pat Riley

I think you're going to see that kind of series.

Pat Thomas

I think we performed pretty well. We're kinda tiny but mighty. For every person on this team there is talent, but there just is not a lot of depth.

Tony Amonte

I think we're the only ones going to be there with kids. But we kinda have to with the baby.