Famous Quotes & Sayings

Booth Tarkington

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously

James Hilton

They will see information about how to find an in-copyright work, either through a bookstore, a publisher or (the closest) library,

Gary Defina

It was a great hockey game. It was fun for us to watch. There were two evenly matched teams, and it could have gone either way.

Joan Rivers

I am never honored. My career is hilarious to me. I am either under the radar or over the radar.

Josh Boone

It seems like either we've gotten a lead and let up a little bit. But I think we've done a very good job of working through those lapses. We were also able to come back. We've been able to win.

Ned Yost

It's tough on him. He's either pitching a lot or not pitching.

Lauri Hakala

It's one of those things. You either have it or you don't. It went the wrong way.

John Porter

People always say that when something like this happens, you either get better or you get worse. I reckon I'm going to get worse.

Parry Aftab

Parents are often either unaware of dangers, or they're freaked out about them. They want software but they don't know where to start looking or how to use it.

Kevin Bardsley

We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned.

Charles Fillmore

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

Charles Fillmore

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Charles Bukowski

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Charles Bukowski

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Charles Bukowski

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Charles Bukowski

Life's as kind as you let it be.

Charles Bukowski

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Charles Bukowski

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Pearl Norris

We thought it was a warehouse but when we opened it, the pews were still in it.

Henry David Thoreau

Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable.

Robert Sheckley

So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.

William Herschel

... finding that in [the Moon] there is a provision of light and heat; also in appearance, a soil proper for habitation fully as good as ours, if not perhaps better who can say that it is not extremely probable, nay beyond doubt, that there must be inhabitants on the Moon of some kind or other?

William Herschel

He broke through the barriers of the skies.

William Herschel

I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.

William Blake

Execution is the chariot of genius.

Xenophanes

Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better.

Ronald Reagan

I am not a scientist.

William Osler

The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. The workers lose all sense of proportion in a maze of minutiae.