Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Gurdon

I take the view that anything you can do to relieve suffering or improve human health will usually be widely accepted by the public - that is to say, if cloning actually turned out to be solving some problems and was useful to people, I think it would be accepted.

Kevin McAvoy

He was a huge help. He got me used to what the kids are expecting. I just came up with an open mind and the guys accepted me.

Paul Moskal

I think it's fairly close. It's accepted as state-of-the-art science, and it's very powerful evidence in that it's science as opposed to personal opinion.

John Breaux

I think anything that is perceived as parliamentary maneuvering to get out of this is not going to be accepted by the American public, ... It's going to have to be out front. It's going to have to be fair.

Chris Roberson

I was just finishing high school and entering college in 1988, when the Creator's Bill of Rights was drafted, and had already set my sights on building a career as a writer of comics. Discovering the Creator's Bill of Rights - in an issue of 'The Comics Journal,' if I'm not mistaken - I accepted it as gospel.

Ben Maynard

I accepted it, because it was something I was really looking forward to doing.

Johnny Rivers

I accepted an offer to do a concert for the reopening of the Mall of Memphis.

Kofi Annan

I am delighted that president Bush has accepted to play this role. I know the Pakistan authorities are too. We know that he is going to bring extraordinary leadership and attention to this terrible tragedy.

William Mason

I am extremely pleased these fine professionals have accepted these important positions. Peter returns to Lyric with impressive new credentials, and Scott has been a valued member of the technical team for many years. The fact that they have worked so well together in the past is an added bonus for Lyric; everyone in the company looks forward to this new collaboration.

Frank Wood

He was the kind of guy, when things were down, he brightened them up. He was happy-go-lucky ... and that light shone around him all the time.

Richard Posner

The Constitution has to be interpreted loosely, otherwise it becomes a straitjacket. You can't interpret it literally. You can pretend to, and go digging around in 18th Century dictionaries to figure out what 'cruel and unusual punishment' meant or what the 'right to bear arms' meant, but that is all fake really. The Constitution has to be interpreted in light of modern needs, and that's what they (the strict interpreters) end up doing in spite of all their investigations.

William Jennings Bryan

The money power denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

Virginia Woolf

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

Woody Allen

What advice would I give the average homeowner to protect himself against burglars? Well, the first thing is to keep a light on in the house when you go out. It must be at least a sixty-watt bulb; anything less and the burglar will ransack the house, out of contempt for the wattage.

Woody Allen

When you are dead, it is hard to find the light switch.

Robert Delaunay

Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.

Rob Bell

You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.

Tracy Morgan

Bad news travels at the speed of light; good news travels like molasses.

Plato

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

Jane Fonda

I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be.

Raquel Cassidy

I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted.

William Wilberforce

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

William Wilberforce

Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.

Abbott L. Lowell

There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

Abbott L. Lowell

All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.

Antoni Gaudi

The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God

Lord Shaftesbury

Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.

Richard Dawkins

We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it.

Rhys Ifans

But in reading Shakespeare and in reading about Edward de Vere, it's quite apparent that when you read these works that whoever penned this body of work was firstly well-travelled, secondly a multi-linguist and thirdly someone who had an innate knowledge of the inner workings and the mechanisms of a very secret and paranoid Elizabethan court. Edward de Vere ticks those three boxes and many more. William of Stratford gave his wife a bed when he died [his second best bed].

Rebecca Eaton

I think the part I enjoy most is reading the scripts and screening films because I'm a bookworm and a movie buff.

Richard Ford

I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me something about where I was from which was worthwhile.

Richard Ford

To write you had to read so I backed into reading.

Roald Dahl

Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.

Roald Dahl

I'm wondering what to read next.

Richard Powers

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

Richard Powers

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

Kresley Cole

I got nothing. Even the spies I'm spying on who are spying on other spies got nothing.

Elia Kazan

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.

Pia Zadora

I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.

Daniel Craig

If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

Stendhal

Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.

Christopher Lee

I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things.

George Carlin

How can it be a spy satellite if they announce on television that it's a spy satellite?

Christine Keeler

However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it.

Gena Showalter

We can't spy on them if they aren't spying on us, now can we?" Warped logic, but okay.

Richelle Mead

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Rex Stout

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Rohinton Mistry

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different

Yahoo Serious

Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?

William Throsby Bridges

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

Zhang Yimou

The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.

Twyla Tharp

In the end all collaborations are love stories.

William Graham Sumner

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

William Golding

I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.

Richard Holbrooke

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

Townsend Harris

If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

Townsend Harris

The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.

Rick Riordan

When I was alive, I mean the first time, Mussolini was in charge. We were at war.” “Mussolini?” Leo frowned. “Wasn’t he like BFFs with Hitler?

Rick Riordan

I'm so glad you're here," Aphrodite said. "War is coming. Bloodshed is inevitable. So there's really only one thing to do." "Uh... and that is?" Annabeth ventured. "Why, have tea and chat, obviously

Regis Philbin

The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee.

William S. Burroughs

This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

William S. Burroughs

The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell.... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.

William S. Burroughs

The whole drug war is nothing but a pretext to increase police power and personnel, and that, of course, is dead wrong. So many created imagined drug offenses.

Richard Whately

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

Woody Allen

See, I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because they, you know they crash their plane, they're self-destructive. But they crash into you, and you die along with them.

Vanessa Bayer

Sometimes the funniest people don't know that they're funny - like the administrators in my high school.

Robin Hobb

A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.

Samuel Johnson

Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five; For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five; He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five.

Warren Beatty

Women are a problem, but if you haven't already guessed, they are the kind of problem I enjoy wrestling with.

Virginia Woolf

Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?

Virginia Woolf

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Virginia Woolf

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.