Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matthew Henson

We had no faith in (Cook) whatever. He was not even good for a day's work, and the idea of his making such an astounding claim as having reached the Pole was so ludicrous that, after our laugh, we dropped the matter altogether.

Bill Doyle

The memorial itself has been an afterthought. It's astounding to me that the only thing they have up there after four years are a couple of posters.

Vint Cerf

It's important that the adults appreciate that young people are capable of doing really astounding work.

Yale Hirsch

We've always had periods when something came in vogue, ... This is different because of the Internet. It keeps on going and the riches just keep astounding everybody. All the traders that come up today naturally gravitate toward Internet stocks.

Grant M. Bright

You REAP what You SOW: Life is like a boomerang. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.

Lori Cooper

There are new technologies currently under development that are astounding there is always room for this category to grow. One of the big challenges when you deal with proprietary performance fabrics is to ensure that the costs involved with developing and producing the fabrics does not make the garments cost prohibitive to the consumer at the end of the day. We are careful to be sensitive to that for the benefit of our customer and we also understand which benefits our customer values as well.

James Horner

When I do a film score, I am basically nothing more than a fancy pencil for hire. I don't own any of the music when I am - it belongs to the film company - and likewise, when I am done, even if I come up with something astounding that I may want to revisit... in the world of film composition, you can't do that.

Brian Greene

As the astounding vastness of the universe becomes obscured, there is a throwback to a vision of a universe that essentially amounts to earth, or one's country, or state or city. Perspective becomes myopic.

Simon Callow

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.

Malik Peiris

Just the introduction per se (of the virus from wild birds to poultry) is not a major risk but if it becomes endemic, that is the problem,

Gary Williams

It becomes very important that you have as many players as possible.

Ciara

It becomes obvious when people are sincere in their criticism and when they're not. I've learned over time that people will always have something to say.

Mike Childress

It becomes even more critical as we know some of our feedstock suppliers have curtailed or discontinued their supply.

Scott Maddox

It becomes clear to me that in order for us to compete, we don't need a contested primary,

John Cavacini

It becomes a gaming issue only when and if the Legislature passes the bill, and it becomes a referendum in Kanawha, Ohio, Hancock, and Jefferson counties.

Gurpal Samra

It becomes a different mentality when you're on church grounds.

Brian Wilson

It becomes a bit of a chess match, because I have to put my A swimmer hopefully in a spot where she will swim better than their A swimmer.

Scott Hill

It becomes a big deal when something like this happens where we don't catch him before the end of the day. Most teachers never know this goes on, most students never know this goes on because we catch them before the end of the day. Well, this time we didn't and we're going to keep looking.

J. C. Watts

I have friends who didn't turn 60. As you get older, your perspective clears.

Rob Halford

Never lose perspective on where you are and what you've got. And how you got it.

William Wordsworth

For all things are less dreadful than they seem.

Robert Plant

I was young - I was 20 years old. Now I have the gift of perspective and I feel pretty good about it.

Wayne Thiebaud

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective

Wesley Snipes

Nobody wants to get locked up, although 'locked up' is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison mentally and emotionally and worse off than those who are behind bars.

Wayne Coyne

Keeping perspective and being happy and being energetic and being creative - that's all tied to being healthy.

Zainab Salbi

From an economic perspective, women are treated unfairly: they perform 66 percent of the world's work and produce 50 percent of the food but they only earn 10 percent of the income and own 1 percent of the property.

William Ralph Inge

They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

David Wojciechowski

He?s going to play. It?s the state championship game.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Larry Small

What we are trying to do is make a statement -- If you can't come to the Smithsonian in Washington, we will come to you,

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Quinnetta Claytor

We can do it, we can win state championships.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Willy Brandt

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Andre Ward

I think my jab has a lot to do with having a throwback trainer in Virgil,

Gina Torres

It's a throwback to see women still in these subservient roles. They were part of the future, which was nice, but they were still getting coffee.

Richard Dawkins

The universe doesn't owe you a sense of hope

Yoko Ono

The universe is a space bigger than all of us we are part of.

Friedrich Schiller

The universe is a thought of God.

Louis Pasteur

The universe is asymmetric.

James Cook

Faith puts the power of the universe at your disposal.

R. Buckminster Fuller

You don't belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you're here to serve.

Lee Smolin

There is nothing outside the universe

Arnold Bennett

You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.

Cheryl Strayed

The universe, I’d learned, was never, ever kidding.

Moby

Over time, I started becoming more and more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort of conventional Christianity.

Carl Sagan

It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.

Carl Sagan

She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Carl Sagan

We are one species. We are starstuff.

Carl Sagan

But our preferences do not determine what's true.

Robert Crais

If my vision was good enough, I'd be an astronaut.

Ryan O'Marra

I've never done it before. Sometimes it's tough. I don't have any peripheral vision.

Umberto Eco

The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief

Reid Hoffman

Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.

Reid Hoffman

There's an ability to learn & adapt, an ability to constantly have a vision that's driving you, but to be taking input from all sources.

Viola Spolin

My vision is a world of accessible intuition.

William James

Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.

Robert Nozick

It goes without saying that any persons may attempt to unite kindred spirits, but, whatever their hopes and longings, none have the right to impose their vision of unity upon the rest.

Will Smith

If you look at somebody like 50 Cent, ain't nobody telling 50 what to do and how to do what he does. He has a vision of who he wants to be, and he instructs everybody along those lines.