Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edsger Dijkstra

A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box.

Aristotle

The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.

Amy Lowell

I know that a creed is the shell of a lie.

Amy Lee

If all we ever sang about was how happy we are, we would be lying to ourselves. People try to escape their problems by getting drunk, partying and dancing them away. What really heals me is to sit down and think, face the facts, then you can get over it and be happy

Amy Lee

You are who you are, there's nobody like you, and to try and be like someone else is just a lie.

Amy Poehler

According to Washington insiders, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan could be the next official to leave the Bush administration. McClellan says he'd like to spend more time lying for his family

Amy Poehler

Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying.

Ally Carter

There are aspectsof this life-- of this world-- from which you can never walk away. Ever. The fact that almost everything you say to almost everyone you love for the rest of your life will be a lie is one of them.

Ally Carter

Sometimes the biggest lies we tell are to ourselves.

Susan B. Anthony

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

Annie Lennox

Such is the scale and depth of poverty in many parts of the world that it won't be ended overnight. That is why if, like me, you want to see an end to poverty, you need to be in it for the long haul.

Rita Mae Brown

piety is like garlic: a little goes a long way.

Rene Redzepi

I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.

Samuel Adams

One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or the Continental Congress.

T. S. Eliot

life is long between the desire and the spasm.

Rick Riordan

They both (Thalia and Hera) glared at her, and for three long seconds, Piper wasn’t sure which one of them was going to kill her first.

Rick Riordan

I've been waiting a long time for a quest, seaweed brain," she said. "Athena is no fan of Poseidon, but if you're going to save the world, I'm the best person to keep you from messing up.

Tinie Tempah

I can wear a suit, sweatpants, a long tee shirt, and a denim jacket all at the same time.

John Milton

Black it stood as night, / Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, / And shook a dreadful dart.

Sophie Okonedo

I feel as proud to be Jewish as I feel to be black

Stanley Kubrick

Everybody has their black moments.

Stacy Keibler

Less is more when you do a bright, bold lip. Just draw on black liner and some mascara and you're good to go!

Stephenie Meyer

But it's possible to love more than one person at a time, Bella. I've seen it in action.

Sylvia Plath

Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled black across the sun.

Sylvia Plath

A black-sharded lady keeps me in a parrot cage.

Tom Robbins

The first thunderstorm of the season was in the dressing room, donning its black robes and its necklace of hailstones, strapping on its electrical sword.

Steve Albini

In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record.