Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Miller

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

Azim Premji

Success is achieved twice. Once in the mind and the second time in the real world.

Azar Nafisi

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

Benjamin Bratt

I believe there's a huge distinction between un macho and a real man. I don't think you have to be one to be another.

Benjamin Bratt

The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.

Jamie Drummond

Not only has President Bush broken his word on funding, he has not put in the effort required to turn this excellent idea into a lifesaving reality.

Carl Sandburg

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

Alan Dershowitz

I have no doubt that if an actual ticking bomb situation were to arise, our law enforcement authorities would torture. The real debate is whether such torture should take place outside of our legal system or within it. The answer to this seems clear: If we are to have torture, it should be authorized by the law.

Alain de Botton

There is real danger of a disconnect between what's on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it's not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with.

Paula Abdul

I've never been to MAGIC before. This is a little overwhelming.

Jane Yolen

Touch magic. Pass it on.

Charles Bukowski

I could never accept life as it was, I could never gobble down all its poisons bu there were parts, tenuous magic parts open for the asking.

Albert Einstein

God is a scientist, not a magician.

Michael Scott

You're saying we lost the powers of magic because we grew lazy.

Michael Scott

But magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses.

Michael Scott

The fifth force was the magic of Time, the greatest of all the magics.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

There is no magic in words.

Neil Gaiman

From meetings and partings none can ever escape. Nor from magic.

Bible Bible

Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is made in this place. (2 Chronicles 6:40)

Jane Smiley

Hungry ears are sharp ones.

Tug McGraw

I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent.

Stephen King

I know I can do it," Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. "I'm sure that in time her death will be a mystery, even to me.

Juicy J

I work on holidays. I work on birthdays. I work on New Year's. I work. I keep my ears to the streets.

Isaac Stern

A great conductor possesses that certain charisma and talent that demand the ears and the attention of an audience. I can't tell you how that happens, but I'm sure it has an inner basis that is never learned.

J. D. Salinger

I'm up to my ears in unwritten words.