Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Maxwell

The view after 70 is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscape of the past. There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters.

James Morrow

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but lack of curiosity would have killed thousands

Kitty Kelley

There's a curiosity factor, but not a fascination like there used to be.

David McCullough

What started me writing history happened because of some curiosity that I had about some photographs I'd seen in the Library of Congress." ()

Claude C. Hopkins

Curiosity is one of the strongest human incentives

Clara Bow

I'm a curiosity in Hollywood. I'm a big freak, because I'm myself!

Daniel Bell

The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.

Alistair Cooke

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

Albert Einstein

Curiosity is its own reason.

Henry Ellis

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Tom Cruise

Something magnificent has happened to me and something extraordinary, and I'm so happy I just can't restrain myself

Jason Brown

Something just happened in the third quarter. I can't really tell you what.

Frank McCourt

Something happened to the spirit in the famine, and they retreated into their caverns and into themselves. And they haven't come out." ()

Scott Stauffer

Somebody would do the same thing for me if it happened in this area,

David Page

Sovereignty is still an issue really important for Quebec. More than ever, especially with what happened with the sponsorship scandal.

Arlen Specter

so much of this has already been in the public domain, and I think that the American people need to know what happened here.

Don Larsen

Sometimes a week might go by when I don't think about that game, but I don't remember when it happened last.

Jay Youngblood

Some people probably thought it would be the same thing that happened when we played them in January.

Rod Thorn

As he pointed out, there's a history of things with him - not just the fight. But I think there will be a lot of teams that will have an interest in him at some level.

John G. D. Clark

As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives.

Janet Fitch

As an undergraduate, I had not studied literature - I was a history major.

Kathy Smith

As a historian, I'm very thrilled to be here because it is a moment in history for our city.

Joe Thomas

At university, I said to a girl, 'Before I met you all I could think about was history; now, all I can think about is you'. I thought that was the sort of thing you had to say.

Karen Wagner

That's where the history is, and that's where it should stay.

Anne Stevens

Norfolk has a wonderful history and reputation, but this is part of the total 'Way Forward' turnaround strategy.

M. Wolfe

Do you own your history, or does someone else own your history? ... There's the play that you're telling, and then there's the play that's underneath that.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A page of history is worth a pound of logic.

bell hooks

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..

Elie Wiesel

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

Alberto Manguel

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

Alberto Manguel

Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.

Alberto Manguel

A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts.

Alberto Manguel

The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.

Alex Haley

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

Drew Barrymore

I have no internet savvy whatsoever, but I love researching things. The Internet is my library... beyond that, I'm completely intimidated by it.

Mike Archer

I've been around a long time, ... and I've never seen anything like this in my life.

Carl Willis

Tell me the youngest person you have ever seen play this game.

Felix Sabates

Q:'You don't spoil your grandchildren do you?A:'Not this morning, I haven't seen them yet.'

W. S. Gilbert

I've seen it in all sorts of industries.

Claire Foy

I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.

Robert Williams

I've never seen anything like this in Detroit. It's different for sure.

Todd Pratt

I've never seen anything like that, ... You just sit down and go, 'This is unbelievable that this is happening.'

Doug Graham

I've never seen (a case) where they've taken the vehicles together.

Steve Rixon

I've not seen a series like it in a long time,