Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Fisher

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

Carl Rogers

Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.

Carl Sagan

Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.

Carl Sagan

These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught up in a powerful emotion -- wonder, fear, greed, grief. Credulous acceptance of baloney can cost you money; that's what P. T. Barnum meant when he said, 'There's a sucker born every minute.' But it can be much more dangerous than that, and when governments and societies lose the capacity for critical thinking, the results can be catastrophic -- however sympathetic we may be to those who have bought the baloney.

Bill Bryson

So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea – or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we don’t know if any of them are right. According to Felipe Fernández-Armesto, at least thirty-eight theories have been put forward to explain why people took to living in communities: that they were driven to it by climatic change, or by a wish to stay near their dead, or by a powerful desire to brew and drink beer, which could only be indulged by staying in one place.

Arnold Schoenberg

I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.

Aron Ralston

Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning.

Bill Budge

I have a really powerful urge to see things work.

Bill Bryson

Hardly anyone ever leaves. This is because Des Moines is the most powerful hypnotic known to man. Outside town there is a big sign that says, WELCOME TO DES MOINES. THIS IS WHAT DEATH IS LIKE. There isn't really. I just made that up. But the place does get a grip on you.

Bill Bryson

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

Bill Vaughan

To make HP a great company once again, we need more than competitive costs and operational efficiency. We're in the process of assessing and refining our growth strategy, and the same concepts that were behind our operational changes will be at work here: simplicity, focus, alignment, and execution.

Bill Blass

Simplicity is the soul of modern elegance.

Ingrid Reed

I was struck by the simplicity of it.

David Allen

The right amount of complexity is what creates the optimal simplicity

Agnes Repplier

Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.

Charlie Chaplin

Simplicity of approach is always best.

Charlie Chaplin

Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.

Charles Wagner

Simplicity is a state of mind.

Shah Zaman

We are innocent but do not know as to why were we targeted.

Laura Epley

I think possibly my things and some other innocent victims things are there too.

Steven Cohen

We don't have little Miss Innocent who was sprayed for no reason at all.

Bruce Helford

Nobody is as innocent as they used to be,

Jeffrey Lichtman

Having met with Mr. Heath, I feel strongly that he's been treated unfairly by American authorities and is innocent of all the charges.

Bertolt Brecht

The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.

Robert Ross

We live in a system where people are innocent until proven guilty.

Bill Hamilton

This proposal would punish people who are innocent of any wrongdoing.

Benjamin Franklin

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.