Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edsger Dijkstra

There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.

Ruth Reichl

Given a choice between great food and boring company or boring food and great company, I'll take the great company any day.

Frank Smith

Learning is never aversive - usually we are not aware of it at all. It is failure to learn that is frustrating and boring, and so is having to attend to nonsensical activities.

Rachel Johnson

Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.

Diane von Furstenberg

Don't let any of your good habits get boring.

Chita Rivera

I'm not comfortable with just me, me, me. That's boring.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

Easter may seem boring to children, and it is blessedly unencumbered by the silly fun that plagues Christmas. Yet it contains the one thing needful for every human life: the good news of Resurrection.

Billy Al Bengston

I paint stupid things; that's what I do. I can't think of anything more boring than a really beautiful thing. You have to mess it up. There has to be something a little kinky to keep their attention.

Bill Engvall

Standup is a form of therapy. It is OK to tell problems to your audience as long as you are being honest and not boring them. I tell them that I am saving $75 an hour when I talk to them instead of a therapist.

David Reed

As a parish priest you're formed much by the people you serve and live with.

Richard Lewis

Back in the day, people used to have more patience for the long form and for storytelling,

Thomas Kyd

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs

Paul Richards

The thought was that it was better to withdraw the proposal rather than risk a formal veto at this stage,

Jim Tressel

You've heard our formula many times. You ... need superior special units, relentless defense, mistake-free and opportunistic offense.

Walther Bothe

During conversion, the newly formed nucleus is not always immediately in the ground state, but is at times in one of the possible activated states.

Alan Greenspan

While these forms of protection have often been imposed under the label of promoting so-called 'fair trade,' oftentimes they are just simple guises for inhibiting competition.

Seth Godin

We've had people who were yoga instructors. ... We have a former marine, and we have everything in between,

Jacques Rogge

We are still in the preliminary phases of the general outlook of the torch relay but the route is not yet defined. The practical circumstances of the torch relay and the whole format is still under discussion.

Gary Sheffield

This is nothing to be talked about, to be honest with you. Turn the lights on and I'll be ready.

Ayn Rand

There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge--Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve--Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living. These three values imply and require all of man's virtues, and all his virtues pertain to the relation of existence and consciousness: rationality, independence, integrity, honesty, justice, productiveness, pride.

Benjamin Bratt

I've always felt that acting is acting at the end of the day, so whether you're doing comedy or heavy drama or anything else in between, you always have to bring a semblance of honesty to it. It's all make believe.

Brenda Ueland

You can write anything you want to,--a six-act blank verse, symbolic tragedy or a vulgar short, short story. Just so that you write it with honesty and gusto, and do not try to make somebody believe that you are smarter than you are. What's the use? You can never be smarter than you are.

C. S. Lewis

It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.

Cesar Chavez

When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.

Al Yankovic

Didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.

Jane Addams

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

Anthony Trollope

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

Liu Peng

During the Games, the test laboratories will work for 24 hours a day, and all the staff are under training now.

Kate Thompson

I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.

Elizabeth Lewis

This was the only hurricane where we had less than 24 hours notice it was going to hit,

Douglas Adams

Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.

Tom Edwards

We are in the first hour of a very long development cycle.

Sonia Sotomayor

I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.

Tana French

I wasn't sure I could make it through another hour of his company without throwing my stapler at his head.

Tom Cruise

I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a little different because there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what I want to.

Michael Cunningham

But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another.

Rush D. Holt, Jr.

The Tea Party and the like are about what we can't do, instead of the American ideal of what we can.

Mother Maribel

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do.

Al Lang

It was unacceptable play on our part. When we get down there, we have to score six points instead of three.

James Garner

I spent most of my time playing pool instead of studying.

Mike Morse

I've been through a lot worse. I need to get at-bats, play every day, instead of being up there just sitting around. I look at it in a positive way. I need to show them I belong.

Odette Annable

If women just got into it a little more, then the world would be happier. Instead of stabbing each other behind the back, just get into a fight, and then everything is out in the open.

Andy Warhol

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there -- I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

Jay Campos

We want to find out where we're at in the regular season, instead of waiting for the playoffs.

Bob Brennan

You have to use your mind instead of gears.

Brad Pitt

Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings.

Elizabeth Pisani

I don't get how it's okay to keep someone alive once they're sick - but not okay to stop them getting sick. I just don't get that.

Anita Hill

For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977

Tim Blake Nelson

I tried to film 'Leaves of Grass' in Oklahoma, but it was literally about a million dollars less to shoot in Louisiana.

Chris Paul

I had never been to Oklahoma City before. I had no clue. Just heard there were a lot of tornadoes.

Chris Kattan

I like women who are okay with who they are.

Frank Turner

You always ask if I'm okay But it's not the same as being happy

J. C. Watts

Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.

Jim Carrey

I don't make it in regular channels, and that's okay for me.

Dan Ariely

What reminds you in your environment about saving? Nothing.

Amy Tan

You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved? Who’s not?

Richard Thaler

A company invites their employees to sign up for a plan where every time they get a raise, some part of that raise goes to increasing their contribution rate to the 401k plan. In the first company we convinced to adopt this plan, saving rates tripled.

Vin Diesel

When I got on the set of 'Saving Private Ryan,' I discovered, to my amazement, that Steven Spielberg is a gamer.

John Stott

Saving faith is resting faith, the trust which relies entirely on the Savior.

Robert Orben

Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.

Emo Philips

I'm not a Republican... but I am saving up to be one.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

Rainbow Rowell

If you can't save your own life, is it even worth saving?