Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped. Diffidence, therefore, which is so able a mentor to the writer, would prove a dangerous counsellor for the orator.

Eddie Izzard

My Gran said put a thimble on your finger and it helps you in case you slip with the needle and it goes up, into the brain, and death.

Beau Willimon

You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.

Baroness Orczy

Money and titles may be hereditary," she would say, "but brains are not,"...

Ato Boldon

We are making a little portion of their brains be sprinters; they are 100 percent football players, but for these purposes, they must learn the proper way to run.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Stephen Hawking's been watching too many Hollywood movies. I think the only kind aliens in Hollywood are the ones created by Steven Spielberg - 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and 'E.T.,' for example. All other aliens are trying to suck our brains out.

Kurt Vonnegut

In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine.

Bill Nye

If you memorize the periodic table it will speed you up if you're a chemist, but by and large, the reason you have a periodic table is so that you can store that information outside of your body. That way it frees up some part of your brain to do something else.

Bertolt Brecht

There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.

Bernard Cornwell

I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face.

Bo Sanchez

Getting a mentor is the shortcut to success.

Dmitry Medvedev

Any politician is to a certain degree a mentor. They preach something.

Ram Shriram

I've trained my people in mentoring entrepreneurs and made myself obsolete.

Jane Fonda

Seek women mentors. If you're a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There's a lot of businesswomen that speak on there. I find them extremely inspiring.

Deepak Chopra

To be a mentor you need to understand what's going on in a young person's life and you just want to have an internal dialogue that says, 'How can I help? Because I really care.'

Colin Powell

All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives.

Ann Kirkpatrick

Gabby Giffords was a mentor of mine in the state Legislature and also in Congress.

Alessandra Ambrosio

I have been lucky enough to work with the world's best designers and top stylists - who have been my mentors.

Alan Watts

You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.

Alan Watts

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

Alan Rickman

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend.

Edward James Olmos

When you're asked to fly a 747 you better at least be able to fly a Piper cub

David Tudor

I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.

David Duchovny

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

Ben Stiller

Stiller was able to reach speeds of around 35 miles per hour, no small task for someone who had never longboarded before.

Barney Frank

They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.