Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Stephen King

There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.

Burn Gorman

I'm afraid the 'Doctor Who' door is probably closed because of me being in 'Torchwood.'

Ellen DeGeneres

I have the picture of Barack [Obama] and me dancing right outside of my dressing room door, I see it every single day, and it makes me very happy.

Lara Pulver

I'm not shutting doors on myself, in any way, within theater, musical theater, TV and film.

Hayley Mills

If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try it, you know, because it must be some marvelous magic thing.

John le Carre

To possess another language, Charlemagne tells us, is to possess another soul. German is such a language. Once you have it in your head, you can go there anytime, you can close the door, you have a refuge.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

David Miller

The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.

Carolina Kluft

Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.

Robert Hunter

I tend to write things and don't go the next step and try to get it published. I don't want to do book signings and stuff.

Tim Allen

You know from one year to the next what's expected. You get the same drills, the same expectations, the same teaching.

Bob Holt

We need for next year. We've run out of reserves.

Helmut Lang

If you really have your own identity you'll keep on doing what you think is really right for you, and you'll also understand the next step you want to take.

Larry Burns

We got the competitors we said we'd get. We got our numbers. We had about 450 competitors and 1,500 spectators. Next year it will be even better. Every year it's going to get bigger.

Martyn Davison

We can be very pleased with the start we've made, and we can't wait for the next game.

Sean Maloney

You are going to see a tremendous wave of experimentation in the next year and a half, two years.