Famous Quotes & Sayings

Werner Herzog

If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn’t illuminate.

Will Self

I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive texting for a - acceptable to some - synonym.

Jodi Picoult

Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a best friend and losing a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumphs and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside. One moment, you'd start to call her to tell her a snippet of news or to vent about your awful day before realizing you did not have that right anymore; the next, you could not remember the digits of her phone number.

Naya Rivera

The day that I got the phone call to tell me that I booked ‘Glee’ I was shooting ‘CSI Miami.’ I was playing this heroin addict…I’d been on a million auditions where I sang and looked exactly the same way and didn’t do anything different. And so for this to be the one that popped it was just like what happened? It was the perfect timing and the perfect role for me. It was like everything came together.

Nicholas Hoult

Nowadays we have so many things that take our attention - phones, Internet - and perhaps we need to disconnect from those and focus on the immediate world around us and the people that are actually present.

Naomi Watts

I love the energy and the knowledge. I barely know how to use this thing [mobile phone]. I get by.

Kiana Tom

I also love to surf the Net and talk on the phone with friends.

Ben Silbermann

I look around my neighborhood, and I see people hailing a cab or ordering their food and then paying for it all with their phone. I've read about that stuff for a really long time, and now it's starting to become commonplace.

Peter Morgan

Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused, very likable, strictly business, and really sharp.

Anton LaVey

Stupidity-The top of the list for Satanic Sins.

Robert Cormier

You could reason with someone who was halfway educated and appeal to his intelligence, but I felt helpless in the face of utter stupidity.

Saul Bellow

Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.

William Booth

It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.

John Cleese

The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.

Kim Harrison

I ought to file charges of uncommon stupidity against you for letting her try this alone." ~ Newt, Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison

Jennifer Baker

I would say maybe there are more mistakes.

Joel Klein

I think it could take a year, maybe a little more than a year,

Kyle Waters

I think in the past year, he wrote maybe one check.

Sarah Brightman

I always felt older than my years, maybe because I was married to someone older.

Mark Calcavecchia

I thought somebody would shoot 7- or 8-under for sure, maybe even 9-under.

Champ Bailey

I was a little shocked with the recovery I made so fast. I didn't think I'd be able to do anything today. I thought maybe tomorrow, but not today.

Matt Rawitzer

I was just trying to stay even par or maybe 1-over on the back 9. I thought that would probably get it done after the way I played on the front.

Joseph Ramos

I think they'll keep raising the rate this month and maybe every month until the end of the year.

John Gibbons

He's getting there. He's not full-speed. We'll see how it goes. Maybe this weekend. We'll see if he's ready.