Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ville Valo

So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don't think all those things shut each other out.

Oscar Isaac

The idea of not getting a gun is not because I'm afraid of guns, it's not because I think guns are wrong, it's because it's impractical, it's stupid and it's exactly what they want me to do.

Kathryn Stockett

I listened wide-eyed, stupid. Glowing by her voice in the dim light. If chocolate was a sound, it would've been Constantine's voice singing. If singing was a color, it would've been the color of that chocolate.

Kara Lindsay

I don't know how to speak to celebrities. Every time I talk to Alan Menken, I say something stupid and I have to apologize.

Kami Garcia

I said it, just like that. No stupid jokes, no changing the subject. For once, I wasn't embarrassed, because it was the truth. I had fallen. I think I had always been falling. And she might as well know, if she didn't already, because there was no going back now. Not for me.

Kami Garcia

I care. They bother me. And that's why I'm stupid. That makes me exponentially more stupid than stupid. I'm stupid to the power of stupid.

Kami Garcia

There were only two kinds of people in our town. ―The stupid and the stuck- ―The ones who are bound to stay or too dumb to go. Everyone else finds a way out.

Paul Krugman

...academic credentials are neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for having your ideas taken seriously. If a famous professor repeatedly says stupid things, then tries to claim he never said them, there's no rule against calling him a mendacious idiot - and no special qualifications required to make that pronouncement other than doing your own homework.Conversely, if someone without formal credentials consistently makes trenchant, insightful observations, he or she has earned the right to be taken seriously, regardless of background.

Patrick Swayze

Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.

Billy Blanks

Today is a reality, tomorrow's a promise, and yesterday's history!

Robert Greene

If I could simplify the whole game of power and strategy in one equation, it would all hinge on the capacity to see events around you exactly as they are. The closer your mind is to reality, the better your strategies, your responses in life.

Robert B. Parker

Has anyone ever told you," I said, "that you coalesce reality?" "No. They only say that I'm good in the sack." "They are accurate but limited," I said. "And if you give me their names I'll kill them.

Robert Ballard

Don't confuse facts with reality.

Robert Barry

I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.

Robert Anton Wilson

All that we "know" is what registers on our brains, so what you perceive (your individual reality-tunnel) is made up of nothing but thoughts—as Sir Humphrey Davy noted when self-experimenting with nitrous oxide in 1819, and as Buddha noticed by sitting alone until all his social imprints atrophied and dropped away.

Robert Anton Wilson

You're only infallible about your own nervous system. You know what's going on in your own nervous system, whatever realities you're creating out of the infinite flux of being. You don't know anything about anybody else's reality unless they tell you about it. You gotta listen very sympathetically in order to understand them. So it's a limited infallibility.

Robert Anton Wilson

Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses - our reality-tunnels - will become.

Robert Anton Wilson

Reality is what you can get away with.

Kim Ens

This isn't something where we want to scare people at all.

Donna Jones

This is the dirtiest, scariest thing I've ever seen. When it comes to politics in this city, people don't play fair.

Ken Davis

This is Philadelphia, people are used to (politicians) getting indicted,

Jeanna Mastrodicasa

This is part of the risk of running, that people will say things about you.

Paul Costello

The whole idea that started this program was to get people out of harm's way.

Gary Caille

The whole idea is that the vehicle doesn't need to survive an attack, but the people do.

Hilary Clinton

The United States military, because of people like you, can do things for a troubled world that no one else can do. And I am profoundly grateful,

Curtis Hanson

This girl, I can't tell you how much ... well, just how proud I am of her. She is going to surprise so many people with this.

Harvey Houtkin

That's where all the people who are day trading, or supposedly day trading, are getting raped or killed,