Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout - to notice: religion, and specifically the devaluing effect that religion has on human life.

Sara Gruen

Life goes on with fragile normalcy.

Wyndham Lewis

Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly.

Michael Froomkin

The elephant in the room is the issue of transparency.

Jacques Monod

What is true for E. coli is also true for the elephant.

Daniel Bard

You try to keep it on the back of your mind and do what you can to keep the team first. I think we've all done that. But it's always there, kind of that big elephant in the room that nobody talks about.

Michael Rothman

It's like trying to shoot an elephant with a BB gun,

Rahul Gandhi

I went to University in 1991, and I remember, nobody thought of India. I remember conversations where people would laugh and say, "Do you have elephants on the road?" Nobody is saying that today.

Paul Dickson

Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.

Jason Portz

He's always a person that people are trying to pitch around. He's his own worst enemy at times. When he can focus on doing the little things in the game, he's a terrific player. He's been very solid for us and his leadership has been tremendous.

William Shenstone

The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it.

William Saroyan

No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.

Will Durant

Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Industry is the enemy of melancholy

Samuel Johnson

The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection.

Samuel Johnson

I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.

Samuel Richardson

Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

William Cowper

Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.

John Maynard Keynes

Regarded as a means, (the businessman) is tolerable; as an end, he is not so satisfactory

Will Brown

They're going to play regardless of what the score is, and they'll probably play early.

Daryl Manning

There's a violation to have any sign in any homeowner's yard, regardless of what it says.

Jencarlos Canela

I only respond to Telemundo when it's about novellas, in regards to music or movies they have nothing to do with it; that's mine.

Estee Lauder

I can understand the skepticism, particularly regarding Estee Lauder,

Tracy Adams

I could still use some more size on this team but we'll work with what we have.

Matt Bonner

He wouldn't be able to find my size in a skirt. At least I'd be able to find his size.

Helen Fisher

You size up someone physically in less than one second - too tall, too short, too fat, too thin, too old, too young, too stuffy, too scruffy.

Lamar Alexander

Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.

Eric Bana

I never look at the size of the film when I'm looking for a part.

Nancy McGee

The cyst was the size of a tennis ball.

Paul Ryan

The tax code is 10 times the size of the Bible with none of the good news.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bodybuilders' cocks are the same size as everyone else's.

James Hogan

At our size it makes sense to be one fleet.

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

Robert Creeley

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.

William Mapother

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

William Wordsworth

in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.

Sarah Rees Brennan

I don't want to seem ungrateful when you have given me this thoughtful, homemade and totally terrifying gift," Jamie told him. "But you can't imagine I'm going to use it." "Just to hold someone off. Just remember what I taught you," said Nick. "Just buy a little time so I can come get you. Jamie. I'll come get you.

Winston Churchill

Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world.

Stephanie Ferlita

If you are able to get though this tournament, you know you've done well.

James Garner

I'll still watch even though Earnhardt isn't in it.

Mike McLaughlin

Everybody's going to keep him in our thoughts and prayers.