Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gerrit Smith

As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men.

Clint Eastwood

Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can't see any difference between take one and take 20.

Carl Sagan

Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . .

Carl Sagan

The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)

Carl Sagan

They (i. e., the Pythagoreans ) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.

Carl Sagan

We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs.

Bertrand Russell

Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion?

Bertrand Russell

More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths.

Bertrand Russell

Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?

Zoe Kravitz

I think it's always very important to be comfortable and just kind of expressive; if you take fashion too seriously, then you lose the fun of it. I think you should always take the risk.

Vladimir Kramnik

I feel that my relationship with Kasparov now is much the same as it had been before the match - good. As for his reaction, well it can't be nice to lose your title after so long, but he was very generous.

Tuukka Rask

The Americans are such a skilled team and I just tried to not lose my focus.

Mirko Slomka

That was a real setback. We are the losers of this round.

Rich Rodriguez

We have a lot of work to do. But I'd rather win ugly than lose pretty.

Taquan Dean

We had our chances, and we didn't do things very smart at the end. We didn't have to lose this game, and that's what hurts.

Mari Pehkonen

We were so close; it's just a big disappointment to lose when you're so close.

Dennis Taylor

To lose your top three players and come back and do this - it was very unexpected.

Franklin Johnson

To lose a major tournament, it's quite compelling,

Brad Goreski

I have been so lucky to have the support of 'InStyle' magazine. My first big women's fashion story was for them.

Carrie Vaughn

You're lucky to have a friend who will kill for you." So. I once had a friend who died for me, and now one who killed for me. Why didn't I feel lucky?

Carl Safina

From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We're willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems.

Bette Davis

I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.

Danny Way

That was the scariest ... thing I've ever done in my life. I'm lucky I'm alive.

Michael Skibbe

That was a lucky win - you can see we still need work as a team.

Peter Jackson

I feel very lucky to be able to make movies in New Zealand, and I will always be grateful for the support I have received from so many New Zealanders.

Sourav Ganguly

(Michael) Vaughan is lucky that Gilchrist has not shone with the bat. We were also similarly lucky in 2003-04 when Gilchrist couldn't get going.

Lofa Tatupu

Man! ... I'm lucky he didn't see me.

Brandon Flowers

It's seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren't ambitious? We wouldn't have that gift we have from them.

David Hewson

I don't think I'd seen anything like 'The Killing.'

Chris Crutcher

If you've seen 'Friday Night Lights' - that was just like my town.

John Torchetti

That was a team win, if I have ever seen one. Everyone from the goalie out tonight just competed. That was the word for tonight, compete.

Paul Thompson

That was ridiculous. In 16 years of coaching, I've never seen anything like that.

Piero Fassino

We have already seen after two days, that this is how it will finish.

Luis Rodriguez

We can't have standardized testing because there is no such thing as standardized child. I have never seen a standardized kid. Have you?

Bob Thompson

We'll probably find more deaths. I don't think we've seen the end of it.

John Scott

We have been travelling to the old battlefields for years and never seen anything like it before.

Bethenny Frankel

I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.

Bo Ryan

That was his shot in the 1920s and 30s.

Dennis Fermoyle

That was the only shot we got in the third period.

Eric Osmundson

That was the big shot of the game.

Scott Skiles

We had our chances. We just couldn't make enough shots at the end.

Christy Porter

We were sluggish. We couldn't make the shots fall.

John Boyd

Whoever was on the grassy knoll in '63 shot better than we did.

Darren Jackson

We just couldn't make our shots under the basket.

Annika Sorenstam

Winning the LPGA Championship was very satisfying, especially considering the shot I made over the trees on the 16th.

C. S. Lewis

The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.

Cecelia Ahern

What was that thing that could make two people promise one another to spend every day of the rest of their lives together? Ah,I found it. It was a thing called love. A small simple word.

Cecelia Ahern

Their plan had been very simple: to stay together for the rest of their lives.

Carrie Mae Weems

I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.

Carl Perkins

That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.

Carl Sagan

There is no other species on Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything.

Bernard Beckett

Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.

Benjamin Rush

A simple democracy is the devil's own government.

Benoit Mandelbrot

It was astonishing when at one point, I got the idea of how to make artifical clouds with a collaborator, we had pictures made which were theoretically completely artificial pictures based upon that one very simple idea. And this picture everybody views as being clouds.

Mark Goddard

The question I always get is, Why didn't you throw Dr. Smith off the Jupiter? I get that all the time.

R. Ingram

Mr. Smith was the first person in the door, so to speak,

Bill Donovan

Tubby Smith always went out of his way to be friendly. He had me in his office. He would talk to me while we waited. He always made me feel at home.

William Cowper

And the first smith was the first murderer's son.

Jonathan Toews

I never cook. My favorite place to eat is Smith & Wollensky in Chicago.

Gideon Sam

I just want to say thanks very much Graeme Smith for that wonderful win.

CC Sabathia

As long as we win games while I'm on the mound, I feel good.

Catullus

Away with you, water, destruction of wine!

Cecil Rhodes

To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life.

Carrie Underwood

Throw caution to the wind and just do it.

Carl Sagan

If the greenhouse effect is a blanket in which we wrap ourselves to keep warm, nuclear winter kicks the blanket off.

Carl Sagan

Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C. by the Ionian philosopher Heraclitus as 'night walkers, magicians, priests of Bacchus, priestesses of the wine-vat, mystery-mongers.' But science is more intricate and subtle, reveals a much richer universe, and powerfully evokes our sense of wonder. And it has the additional and important virtue-to whatever extent the word has any meaning-of being true.

Bethenny Frankel

It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back.

Bette Davis

I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn't been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they'd given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I'm an Aries. I never lose.

Bette Davis

Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.