Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Crace

There is no comparison. The American landscape is so much more dangerous. They have real snakes, mountain lions, bears; we only have adders, and they're more frightened of us than we are of them.

Robert Smith Surtees

Better be killed than frightened to death.

Anthony Marra

Research is not an obstacle, something to be frightened of. It can be one of the real joys of writing.

Samuel Barnett

I never wanted to do Shakespeare; I never liked watching it, it's always frightened me, and I've never been any good at it. But I really wanted to work with the director Tim Carroll and Mark Rylance.

Greg Boyle

The Church should say, 'I'm frightened that women will be ordained;' that's honest, say that. But don't say, 'It's a grave sin,' because that's nonsense.

Barbara Boxer

They are going to feel very frightened and anxious.

Jamie Foxx

As a kid, I was scared of losing my mind. In Terrell, Texas, where I grew up, there was a guy that would walk down the street talking to himself. And I used to watch him and feel uneasy. And there was a sanitarium where people would say, 'That's where all the crazy people go.' It really sort of frightened me.

Jane Green

I consider myself pretty fearless, but the one thing I have always been frightened of is cancer.

Kristin Scott Thomas

I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.

Granth Sahib

Now my joys are few, and my pains are many. In utter agony, I pass my life.

Alice Sebold

To me, the idea of heaven would give you certain pleasures, certain joys - but it's very important to have an intellectual understanding of why you want those things.

Craig Brown

One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun.

Gail Kelly

One of the joys of being at St. George is you were operating under the radar screen a lot of the time, and you could actually get on with things a lot more quickly and easily.

Greta Garbo

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

Heinrich Boll

No one will ever know how many novels, poems, analyses, confessions, sufferings and joys have been piled up on this continent called Love, without it ever having turned out to be totally investigated.

Skylar Astin

I think that I am willing to do anything. I like to collaborate. If my voice will be heard, than I will do some research and think about it.

Rosemarie Truglio

We took a long time and did a lot of research and preparation. We wanted to make sure we did this right.

Raymond Chandler

I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.

Will Harvey

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

Sara Sheridan

Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop.

Will Wright

I typically go overboard when I research new projects.

Warren Buffett

I like to buy things I can understand. I do a lot of research on things.

Rudolph A. Marcus

About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments.

Robert Pattinson

Every cent that goes to research is changing the lives of patients and their families right now.