Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmond Halley

Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.

Beatrice Webb

If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.

Kenneth Fisher

Long before folks fretted the demise of 'quantitative easing,' I fretted its existence. It proved the reverse of its image, an antistimulus, and we've done okay not because of it, but despite it.

Pat Riley

We are all so quick to judge around here, but the demise of Shaquille O'Neal has been greatly exaggerated. I guarantee you that.

Arthur Levitt

George Orwell once blamed the demise of the English language on politics. It's quite possible he never read a prospectus.

Chris Donlay

To paraphrase Mark Twain, our demise is greatly exaggerated.

George Daley

A process that dooms an otherwise normal embryo to later demise

Goldy Hyder

Rumors of our demise were obviously grossly exaggerated.

Christiane Amanpour

Sadly, marriage and motherhood have coincided with the demise of journalism as I knew it and I dreamt that it would always be.

Aleksey Igudesman

We've always dreamt of a TV series and working in film. When we first sat down to seriously write 'A Little Nightmare Music,' to write something for TV was our original inspiration. But all the stuff we were writing down is not going to work on stage. We had to rewrite it so it would work on the stage.

Ben Roethlisberger

To play receiver and not play quarterback until my senior year, I never thought I'd be in this situation. I always wanted to be here and dreamt about it as a kid, but I never thought it would happen.

William Shatner

It was exciting in that it was the first of the films. Nobody had ever dreamt of it being a major motion picture. Robert Wise was one of the leading lights, one of the great directors, and he was quite a force. And so between the idea of it being a major motion picture and Robert Wise directing, it was an important moment in all our lives.

Michael Foreman

Drawing was the only thing I was any good at in school, but I never dreamt I would, or even could, spend my life doing it.

Michael Phelps

The things I am doing right now I have dreamt about my whole life,

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Is it a fact -- or have I dreamt it -- that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?

William Shakespeare

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Then are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Jasmine Guinness

I always dreamt that I would marry in the Piazza Del Campo in Siena and go on my honeymoon down the Amazon, up the Nile, on a gallop through the pyramids, to Nepal and Kerala, on a safari and finally to Lake Titicaca in Peru.

Mary Kom

Like every other athlete, I always dreamt of playing at the Olympics, and it feels really good to see that dream materialize.

Denise Mina

Journalism is a Darwinian process.

Charles Kuralt

I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.

Neil Young

This is the sickest piece of journalism I have ever seen!

Jim Edgar

I spend time in the classroom. I think more of them aren't political science than are political science. I particularly like talking to journalism students.

Benito Mussolini

Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.

Ann Curry

Journalism is an act of faith in the future

Adlai E. Stevenson

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

Andrew Ferguson

It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.

Thomas Carlyle

The press is the fourth estate of the realm.

Natalie Massenet

When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.

Nathaniel Smith

If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.

Greg Nossaman

When we were down nine on Thursday night, we knew Brandon would be able to play Saturday, so we said, let's try to (win this) so he can play another game. That was motivational.

Ray Allen

When I was open, I just knew it was time to make a shot.

Mike Rumph

When I was in sixth grade, honestly, I thought I knew everything. I still don't know nothing. I'm still learning stuff.

Katie Leclerc

When I played 'Annie' in the seventh grade, I knew from then on that I wanted to be an actor.

Jim McCarthy

When we had that warm weather in January, we knew we were going to be in trouble.

Raquel Turnbow

When we got to the bars, we knew we had to step it up.

Doug Baggett

When we got down 10 or 12, I knew we were in trouble.

David Brooks

Marital happiness is far more important than anything else in determining personal well-being.

Denis Thatcher

(When asked who wore the pants in his house:) I do, and I also wash and iron them.

Bill Moyers

In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness

Bess Truman

Harry and I have been sweethearts and married more than forty years - and no matter where I was, when I put out my hand Harry's was there to grasp it.

Bertrand Russell

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.

Bertrand Russell

St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake.

Agnes Macphail

I suggest that there is a splendid way out of the difficulty of marriage, and that is my way - stay out.

Alan King

You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.

Alan King

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

Edith Wharton

Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came to her the grave surprise of motherhood.

Deborah Norville

The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.

Carre Otis

Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Motherhood to me is something that I always wanted, but never quite knew how it was going to happen.

Betty Friedan

What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life expectancy was forty-six; now it was nearly eighty. Our groping sense that we couldn't live all those years in terms of motherhood alone was "the problem that had no name." Realizing that it was not some freakish personal fault but our common problem as women had enabled us to take the first steps to change our lives.

Betty Friedan

Feminism or the family? Carried to excess maybe. I have insisted that women cannot be defined solely in those terms. But for a great many women - not all, because we are only beginning to realize and affirm the diversity of women themselves - choosing motherhood makes motherhood itself a liberating choice.

Bob Woodward

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

Beyonce Knowles

I felt like God was giving me a chance to assist in a miracle. There is something so relieving about life taking over you like that. You're playing a part in a much bigger show. And that's what life is. It's the greatest show on earth.

Barbara Johnson

Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.