Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.

Alan Paton

But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

Alan Bennett

I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

Alan Ball

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

Alan Alda

When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.

Al Stewart

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

Al Sharpton

I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.

Akio Morita

I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.

Chris Cleave

I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.

W. Somerset Maugham

When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.

William Shakespeare

To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life: let it come on.

C. S. Lewis

You die and you die and then you are beyond death.

Arthur Sullivan

With this car, it's a diesel and probably gives off emissions. I'm not sure if it would pass or not.

Betty Smith

It takes a lot of doing to die.

Jan Stuart

This is a big issue - ultra low sulfur diesel is really easy to contaminate.

William Cullen Bryant

They talk of short-lived pleasures: be it so; pain dies as quickly, and lets her weary the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.

John Dryden

For, Heaven be thank'd, we live in such an age, when no man dies for love, but on the stage

Luis Diaz

This is the second time someone dies this year; it's extremely dangerous. People that pay smugglers can expect things like this to happen because the smugglers aren't looking out for people.

Maxwell Anderson

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it