Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star.

Bill Bryson

I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations.

Bill Bryson

I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I've never been before.

Bill Bryson

Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe.

Bill Bryson

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit...

Bill Bryson

I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.

Bill Bryson

Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Bill Vaughan

It is easiest to lose your way in the forest after it is cut.

Igor Luksic

We are determined to improve the economic environment by getting foreign investors in and by cutting red tape.

Abraham Lincoln

In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.

C. S. Lewis

The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.

Carrie Vaughn

It’s only a scratch, don’t cut my arm off!

Carl Safina

Try to cut down drastically on plastic. Recycle. Use less energy and more renewable energy. We can all live better by doing better for ourselves and the sea!

Antoine Fuqua

The violence you witness is Denzel doing it and we're taking some visual effects and doing some things and you see something happen it's happening in front of you as opposed to cutting away and doing a bunch of tricks. It's in front of you. So it's hard not to make it a hard "R" if you see a guy get punched and teeth wind up in someone's knuckles.

Bill Vaughan

The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.

Bill Vaughan

But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off.

Bill Burr

When you say, "there's no reason [to hit a woman]" that kills any examination as to how two people ended up at that place. When you say, "there's no reason," you cut out the build-up and you're just left with the act. How you gonna solve it if you don't figure it out?

Emma Roberts

There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.

Annie Leibovitz

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

Cecil Rhodes

Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better.

Cecelia Ahern

Life has a way of getting what it wants when it really knows what it wants.

Carrie Fisher

My extroversion is a way of managing my introversion.

Carl Rogers

Am I living in a way which is deeply satisfying to me, and which truly expresses me?

Bette Davis

You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'

Bette Davis

There's only one way to work -- like hell.

Antoine Rivarol

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.