Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Hader

The nature of 'SNL' is that it's so in-the-moment.

Carl Reiner

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Carl Sagan

The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.

Bill Bryson

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

Benoit Mandelbrot

If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).

Benoit Mandelbrot

The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology of the amorphous. Mathematicians have disdained this challenge, however, and have increasingly chosen to flee from nature by devising theories unrelated to anything we can see or feel.

Tom Leighton

That was a very sophisticated attack; the nature of it was novel,

Sebastian Horsley

I think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe.

Manoj Bhargava

The more you consume, the more insecure you are. It's the nature of the world.

Cecelia Ahern

It’s hard for everyone isn’t it? Anyone who says it’s easy is a liar. There’s this huge divide between me and Alex right now because I feel like we’re living in such different worlds, I don’t know what to talk about with him anymore. And we used to be able to talk all night. He phones once a week and I listen to what he’s been up to during the week and try to bite my tongue every time I go into another Katie story. Truth is I have nothing other to talk about but her and I know it bores people. I think I used to be interesting once upon a time.

Bergen Evans

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Robert Kiyosaki

We all have defining moments. It is in these moments that we find our true characters. We become heroes or cowards; truth tellers or liars; we go forward or we go backward.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You're a liar!" He turned around, his black eyes snapping. "I'm also a thief, a gambler, a cheat, and a murdered. But this happens to be one of the rare times when I'm telling the truth. Go home. Consider yourself lucky. You've got a chance to start fresh. Not everyone can say the same.

William Shakespeare

Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!

William Shakespeare

I love him for his sake; And yet I know him a notorious liar, Think him a great way fool, solely a coward; Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him That they take place when virtue's steely bones Looks bleak i' th' cold wind; withal, full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

David Mitchell

What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.

Bryan Stevenson

I've come to understand and to believe that each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done. I believe that for every person on the planet. I think if somebody tells a lie, they're not just a liar. I think if somebody takes something that doesn't belong to them, they're not just a thief. I think even if you kill someone, you're not just a killer. And because of that, there's this basic human dignity that must be respected by law.

Caroline Kennedy

I can’t stand to hear his [Obama’s] voice anymore. He’s a liar, and worse.

C. S. Lewis

Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.

C. S. Lewis

He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.

Carrie Brownstein

Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling.

Bernard Beckett

I cannot choose to ignore this feeling, of life slowly bleeding out of me. I cannot ignore the fact that life only makes sense to me when I see a smile, or feel another hand in mine.

Benoit Mandelbrot

When people ask me what's my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.

Benoit Mandelbrot

I was asking questions which nobody else had asked before, because nobody else had actually looked at certain structures. Therefore, as I will tell, the advent of the computer, not as a computer but as a drawing machine, was for me a major event in my life. That's why I was motivated to participate in the birth of computer graphics, because for me computer graphics was a way of extending my hand, extending it and being able to draw things which my hand by itself, and the hands of nobody else before, would not have been able to represent.

Aron Ralston

What you're looking at there is my arm, going into the rock... and there it is - stuck. It's been without circulation for 24 hours. It's pretty well gone.

Arsene Wenger

I know how important it is to have a helping hand.

Anton Seidl

The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed.