Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society.

Robert M. Pirsig

The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

Virginia Woolf

The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.

Rebecca Solnit

If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.

Nelson Eddy

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

Nawal El Saadawi

I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

R. C. Sproul

The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The opposite of nature is impossible.

Jack Ferraro

I think the players that we have right now are very good. But one thing we don't have is that big-time scorer. We're going to be missing Piazza, but somebody's going to have to pick up his slack.

John Shadegg

I think we need an idea person. It's something we've been missing for a long time.

Kitty Wright

I think a lot of people misunderstood, (thinking) that they were going to be there forever. Now that they're gone, they're missing them.

Ted Parrish

I think they will make their numbers. I can't see them missing and not pre-announcing this time,

Kami Hebert

I want to win state. I'm mostly satisfied with what I've done individually, but all I'm missing is a state title.

Taylor Twellman

I was just trying to make sure the goalie didn't punch me in the head. I wanted to make up for missing in the first half.

Alan Trammel

When they get a pitch to hit, ... they're not missing it.

Jeff Tedford

He was suspended for the first quarter for missing the meeting,

Richard Petty

I didn't miss out on a family life because of racing. I had one because of it.

Rodman Philbrick

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Morley Safer

Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.

Emile Zola

What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.

Kingsley Amis

It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.

Karl Pilkington

You can only talk rubbish if you're aware of knowledge.

Alan Shearer

It was a tremendous turnaround because we were rubbish in first half.

Anton Chekhov

In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish that is their strength.

A. N. Wilson

Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.

E. M. Forster

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!