Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Knuth

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Anne Rice

It draws it's strength, this big secret, from the same root from which I draw my strength, both the good and the bad, because in the end, they cannot be separated.

Stephen Sondheim

Let Pirelli's / Miracle Elixir / Activate your roots, sir... Keep it off your boots, sir- / Eats right through. Yes, get Pirelli's! / Use a bottle of it! / Ladies seem to love it... Flies do, too!

Swami Vivekananda

The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin.

Tom Robbins

People aren't trees, so it is false when they speak of roots.

Rajneesh

Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new beauty, a new intelligence—which is not borrowed from anybody, which is growing within you. It has roots in your existence.

Smokey Robinson

Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots

Smokey Robinson

I really haven't strayed too far, musically, from my roots

John Owen

Now nothing can prevent this but mortification; that withers the root and strikes at the head of sin every hour, so that whatever it aims at it is crossed in.

Woody Allen

I've often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me

Plautus

Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.

Jeffrey Immelt

I think there's a sense of arrogance and entitlement here, a complacency in the United States.

Howard Fast

Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever

Sorin Cerin

How many consuming fires can there be in the words: freedom, peace and democracy and how easy they can be extinguished by ignorance, stupidity and arrogance?

Gregory Amditis

We weren't angry. The captain kept cutting us off. He had a smirk on his face. His arrogance was awful.

Ken Follet

We were young and had the arrogance of youth, nevertheless when you look at the issues we fought over, I think by and large we were right.

Sasa Cuic

UCLA plays with a winning mentality. They know how to win games. They have that attitude, an arrogance, to come up with wins like this one.

Edward Rutherfurd

All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.

Casey Wilson

Even before I got on 'SNL' I assumed I would do some type of sitcom; I kind of thought that was how I would start. I don't mean to sound arrogant - I just thought I would be best suited to the form.

Bokeem Woodbine

I was cocky and arrogant when I was younger. I thought that if I delivered a good performance, and put my best foot forward, that would be enough to get people's attention. So in my naivety, I cut my legs off at the knees, because I didn't realize that oftentimes it doesn't matter about the performance... it's the media that creates stars.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's not the danger I love. I know what I love. It is life itself.

Robin Wright

I dislike arrogant men and diva behavior in either gender.

Jonah Hill

I don't like to compare things to other things. It always sounds arrogant in print.

Dan Gorrell

They had this arrogant belief that when baby boomers turn 50, 'they belong to us,' and that just didn't happen.

Bronson Pinchot

'Restoring' is a very arrogant concept. If you're taking a house from 1812, do you restore it to how it looked the day after it was built, or restore it to the way it looked in 1828, or the way it looked in 1872? Do the minimum to stop it from falling apart, and then get away.

Brian Eno

It's insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it's assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It's that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he's telling you something about his own life. It's so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway!