Famous Quotes & Sayings

I scrambled to the top of the precipice where Nick was waiting. ""That was fun,"" I said. ""You bet it was,"" said Nick. ""Let's climb higher."" ""No,"" I said. ""I think we should be heading back now."" ""We have time,"" Nick insisted. I said we didn't, and Nick said we did. We argued back and forth like that for about 20 minutes, then finally decided to head back. I didn't say it was an interesting story.

Steve Wozniak

Did you really invent the computer, or am I being pranked right now?

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

Mike Reagan

The event is good way to get students to register to vote. I think it helps with democracy more than anything. It's a good way to get a lot of student support.

Miyamoto Musashi

Pay attention even to life's trifles.

Sheldon Adelson

I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We're prepared to pay billions.

Leonard Cohen

I want to be paid for my work, not work for my pay.

Lilith Saintcrow

I should start charging uncomfortable thoughts rent. Except what would they pay me in? Probably something even worse.

Lil Wayne

I tried to pay attention, but attention paid me.

Peter Kreeft

We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it’s worth it, that it pays.

Phyllis Bottome

When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.

Kelly Miller

The Negro pays for what he wants and begs for what he needs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Andrew Niccol

Some people think 'Lord of War' is a political film,

Liam Hemsworth

Southern people remind me a lot of Australia.

Jim Anderson

So we're trying to let people know that we will automatically enroll them in Part D and there is no premium at all,

Mark Rylance

So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.

Jesse Toprak

Now, for vehicles priced under $40,000, it is one of the first questions people ask.

Cesar Romero

Now I don't know half of the young people in the industry. It's too spread out, too diffuse.

Lois Lowry

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

Robin Cook

Tell the people of Serbia how much wealth you have sucked out during the same years they have been impoverished in Serbia,