Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Perlis

There is no such thing as a free variable.

Bill Parcells

I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.

Ambrose Bierce

Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.

Robert A. Heinlein

In a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.

Feist

But that constant adjustment and adaptation to your new environment, all the variables are the same. There's always a promoter, there's always a rider, there's always a shower, and there's always a stage.

B. F. Skinner

To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.

Luc de Clapiers

Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves.

James F. Cooper

Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often arise where language is as variable and undetermined as the English.

Garrett Hardin

Every measured thing is part of a web of variables more richly interconnected than we know.

Charles Dickens

We went our several ways," said Lady Dedlock, "and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to be regretted, I suppose, but it could not be helped.

Alan Watts

Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.

Alan Moore

You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other.

Alan J. Pakula

Some actors come to the set ready to do their parts a certain way.

Alan Jay Lerner

An Englishmans way of speaking absolutely classifies him.

Alain Prost

When I test I never go right to the limit. Only because when you are below the limit you can go at the same speed all day, and that's the only way you can be absolutely sure about what you are testing.

Al Michaels

I've always felt that I'm in a spontaneous business and if you script something, if you plan something, it will sound that way.

Al Ries

Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.

Al Ries

The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.

Alan Watts

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

Alan Parker

Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.

Alan Parker

I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.

Al Pacino

Love goes through different stages. But it endures.

Chris Burke

I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same.

Eddie Murphy

I'm in a whole different part of show business. I'm not even part of Shakespeare in Love.

David Icke

Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.

Chad Hugo

I just always considered myself to be different and able to explore whatever I wanted.

Agnes Varda

I cannot say something different to one person and then another.