Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nikki Giovanni

Kevin Powell is pushing to bring, as he has so brilliantly done before, the voices of his generation: the concerns, the cares, the fears and the fearlessness.

Liz Rosenberg

Knowing her, she'll be riding next week. She is a fearless girl.

Herbert Sloane

I yelled 'get me out' several times, and the next thing I knew I realized somebody was pulling me out of the plane. My instinctive fear was the gasoline.

Brendan Shanahan

He just knows how to play the game. Most times, I'm the one standing in front but if I'm not there, he has no fear of going in there and doing that job. The goal isn't scored unless Steve's screening the goalie.

Steven Gerrard

He just goes out there as if he's going for a knockabout with his friends, ... He has no fear.

Sugata Mitra

We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding.

Mike Ramsey

What we fear, in a situation as radioactive as this one, is that we'll have a so-called stealth juror.

James Douglas

Here lies he who neither feared nor flattered any flesh

Graeme Smith

We are fearful it is possibly going to be sold for scrap, which would be a travesty.

Tyler Perry

You know, people don't want their intelligence insulted. They don't want to be preached to. They don't want to be degraded. All they want to do is sit, laugh, have a good time, love one another, forget about what's going on in the world, and find something out so they can be useful in this life. Do this and you have common sense.

William Kingdon Clifford

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

William Hazlitt

The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.

W. Somerset Maugham

A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.

Luther Burbank

As a scientist I cannot help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired. As for their prophets, there are as many today as ever before, only now science refuses to let them overstep the bounds of common sense.

Temple Grandin

Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior.

John Calvin

I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.

Joan Rivers

Never buy a fur from a vegetarian.

Lord Kelvin

Do not imagine that mathematics is harsh and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealisation of common sense.

Sergei Liakhovich

He said I'm scared of him, but I am scared of nobody.

Larry Petersen

I'd be scared to think of the number.

Larry Rogers

He had to be scared for his life.

Sara Shepard

Life isn’t worth living if you’re scared all the time.

Ursula Andress

I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.

Vince Staples

I'm not really scared of a lot of things. I'm scared of possums. And I'm scared of raccoons sometimes, it depends on how big it is - I'm scared of the smaller raccoons because the bigger ones are slower.

Vijender Singh

Scrutiny has never scared me because I have had detractors all my life.

Estelle

I have to live authentically at all times. And that's part of what makes me an artist. I'm not scared to do that.

Mara Wilson

I didn't want to whisper and giggle about [puberty] anymore. I felt incredibly self-conscious. I felt like I was losing myself, and I was losing who I was. And that really scared me.