Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Paul Evans

I don't want to go to Peru. "How do you know? You've never been there." I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.

Rex Reed

Just living in Los Angeles guarantees the loss of a few I.Q. points each year.

Robert Duvall

One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.

Richard Burton

One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.

Vanessa Carlton

Making my way downtown, walking fast, faces pass, and I'm home bound. Staring blankly ahead, just making my way, making a way, through the crowd. And I need you, and I miss you, and now I wonder... If I could fall, into the sky. do you think time, would pass me by? 'Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles, if I could, just see you tonight.

Robyn Davidson

The most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.

Sargent Shriver

Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.

Samuel Johnson

He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.

Samuel Johnson

Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life.

Samuel Richardson

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

Maria Mitchell

Nothing comes out more clearly in astronomical observations than the immense activity of the universe.

Henri Poincare

In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most circumspect observer.

David Dinkins

But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.

Claude Bernard

In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Don't observe yourself too closely. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen.

Carl Sagan

Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence to make them believable.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place.

Ian Hacking

A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.