Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Ayn Rand

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Calvin Coolidge

That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.

Richard G. Scott

The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life.

Sydney Smith

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

Anna Jameson

If a superior woman marry a vulgar or inferior man, he makes her miserable, but seldom governs her mind or vulgarizes her nature; and if there be love on his side, the chances are that in the end she will elevate and refine him.

Anna Jameson

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Anna Jameson

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

Yann Martel

First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I got paid 20 grand for my first film. And that's the lowest I ever got paid.

Henry David Thoreau

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Karl Marx

The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature.

Julia Gillard

The first film I remember seeing was Bambi. It has stayed with me because it was so sad.

Jules Verne

Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.

Judi Dench

The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.

Josh Duhamel

When I first started, I wasn't really into movies that much unless it was an action-packed gunslinger with naked women here and there.

Ozzy Osbourne

With marriage, you've just got to stick it out. You can't jump off the boat at the first bump in the waves.

Clarke Peters

Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor - tell the story, and when it's told, there's another one to tell.

Just because swans mate for life, I don't think its that big a deal. First of all, if you're a swan, you're probably not going to find a swan that looks much better than the one you've got, so why not mate for life?

Harold Pinter

Be careful how you talk about God. He's the only God we have. If you let him go he won't come back. He won't even look back over his shoulder. And then what will you do?

Bob Rager

He was throwing them in from everywhere. When he's shooting like that, it looks like everything's going to go in.

Sean Curran

He is going to get stopped every time a police officer looks at him because of his notoriety.

Michael Finley

He looks good. He looks the same to me.

Jason Smith

He looks faster. I think he can get into the 14.2 range in the highs. But I also like his potential in the intermediates.

Darren Perry

He'll be the first to tell you he still has a ways to go yet. He is progressing well. He is much more mature. He looks a lot more comfortable out there. He's not thinking as much.

Richard P. Feynman

Nature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it's a wonderful problem, because it doesn't look so easy.