Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

C. S. Lewis

I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them.

Cecelia Ahern

When you're on your own, you look for signs. Sometimes you make them up, sometimes they're actually there, but most of the time you can't tell the difference from the two.

Carrie Fisher

I have two moods. One is Roy, rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood. And Pam, sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs... Sometimes the tide is in, sometimes it's out.

Carrie Fisher

There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects.

Carl Rogers

Most of us consist of two separated parts, trying desperately to bring themselves together into an integrated soma, where the distinctions between mind and body, feelings and intellect, would be obliterated.

Carl Sagan

Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has seven thousand matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger. Well that's the kind of situation we are actually in. The amount of weapons that are available to the United States and the Soviet Union are so bloated, so grossly in excess of what's needed to dissuade the other, that if it weren't so tragic, it would be laughable. What is necessary is to reduce the matches and to clean up the gasoline.

Carl Sagan

First rule in government spending: Why build one, when you can have two at twice the price?

Bill Bryson

A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work.

Antoni Tapies

I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values.

Bill Vaughan

A lot of Americans have some view of the Constitution as just this thing that was handed down [intact]. But it really was the result of months and months of wrangling and disputation and ultimately compromise. That's where the brilliance of the American system is -- it's always been built on compromise.

Bill Vaughan

In my view there are basically two types of weddings. There is the wedding that is based on law, and there is the wedding that is based on Christ and based on grace. We felt that those who have been married by the law, they would like to have that special privilege and benefit by being married by the church.

Bertrand Russell

But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely because it is not human.

Baz Luhrmann

I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.

Barry Lopez

The cold view to take of our future is that we are therefore headed for extinction in a universe of impersonal chemical, physical, and biological laws. A more productive, certainly more engaging view, is that we have the intelligence to grasp what is happening, the composure not to be intimidated by its complexity, and the courage to take steps that may bear no fruit in our lifetimes.

B. F. Skinner

In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore be held responsible for what he does and justly punished if he offends. That view, together with its associated practices, must be re-examined when a scientific analysis reveals unsuspected controlling relations between behavior and environment.

David Brooks

The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born.

David McCullough

Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

Carl Sagan

We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.

Tom Burke

If this is just a variation of the millions of ideas already out there, no one is going to be interested. There are too many calendars chasing too little retail space. There's going to be fallout in the industry.

Craig Ferguson

Oprah's quitting in 2011. Now we know why the Mayans ended their calendar in 2012

Lisa Gross

Kentucky has one of the shortest school calendars - not only in the region, but in the country. Most states have at least a 180-day school calendar.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Climaxing a movement for calendar reform which had been developing for at least a century, in 1582 Pope Gregory ordained that October 4 was to be followed by October 15.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.

Cathi Kellett

Last year the Parish Nurses received grant funding to do a drug prevention education calendar. The Scouts did a pilot project by doing several small presentations and having students do drawings. Calendars were made and distributed to elementary schools in Derby, Seymour and Oxford.

Cathy Melanson

The bikers love it. When I had to cancel the first date, they said, 'Oh no! You got to do it! They all took out their little calendars to set a new date.

Carla McGhee

We had to hand in our workout calendars every two weeks in the summer and when we got to camp in October we were tested on the mile and a half, our agility, weight, everything,