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.

Akshay Kumar

Linen is good because it looks trendy and at the same time it's very comfotable

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.

Chris Adrian

I am...sad and angry. Why is my spirit so sad and angry? I look back at my life and all I can remember is rage and rage and rage.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you are frightened by something, you have to relate with fear, explore why you are frightened, and develop some sense of conviction. You can actually look at fear. Then fear ceases to be the dominant situation that is going to defeat you. Fear can be conquered. You can be free from fear if you realize that fear is not the ogre. You can step on fear, and therefore, you can attain what is known as fearlessness. But that requires that, when you see fear, you smile.

Chita Rivera

I never like the way I look. I don't. I never look at myself.

Edward James Olmos

At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent

Edward Hirsch

And sometimes you look at the first poems by someone and you go, "They have freshness and a sense of wonder that is never recaptured again by that poet."

Dayo Okeniyi

Denzel Washington is someone I look up to.

David Riesman

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's purpose in redemption is to make worshipers out of rebels.

Charlie Daniels

We can get rid of red tape.

Charlie Daniels

What this world needs is a few more Rednecks

Carl Hiaasen

I'm sort of fascinated by America's fascination with rednecks, the whole Duck Dynasty thing. Being a white guy from the South, I find it amazing that so many TV viewers are enchanted by beards, bad dentistry and moonshine accents.

Mike Sillinger

We're not going to worry about the Red Wings. We've got to worry about our game.

Black Elk

So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth.

Bob Gunton

Put your trust in the Lord....your ass belongs to me. Welcome to Shawshank.

Anne Phillips

The red shoes were visually striking on the screen. They had Technicolor and, by golly, they were going to use it.

Charles Krauthammer

I'm a former Red Sox fan, now fully rehabilitated.