Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

Abraham Lincoln

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

William Gibson

I read a great deal of science fiction with consummate pleasure between, say, the ages of 12 and 16. Then I got away from it. In my mid- to late 20s, I started trying to write it.

Harold Snieder

We need to know what the genes are to develop new medications and treatments and this shows that at different ages there appear to be different genes.

Roger Ailes

Audiences are shifting. Platforms are shifting. Ages are shifting. It's better to be in charge of change than to have to react to change.

Marquis de Lafayette

May these happy United States attain that complete splendour and prosperity which will illustrate the blessings of their government, and for ages to come rejoice the departed souls of their founders!

Peter Ustinov

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

Richard Jefferies

This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness.

Kirk Davis

We're very proud of this new publication which is, in fact, our largest circulation weekly newspaper. We've worked hard to develop a publication that people of all ages and all walks of life will look forward to receiving in their mailbox every week.

Colin Morgan

For me, it's all I've wanted to do. I did local plays and productions, local theater groups and anything that involved it. And then, I went and studied it, attended drama school and got my first lucky break in the theater in London, and just went from there.

Paul Johnson

Indeed, the study of universities and the great men and women who have attended them leads me to think that the best of these schools are characterized not so much by what they teach and how they teach it but by the extent they provide opportunities and encouragement for students to teach themselves.

Phil Long

With the disinvestment in education at the state level, we have larger classes and have cut down on programs. That raises concerns in families who want to make sure their children are well attended to. We are doing our best with what we have.

Rhoberta PhD

Most couples make the mistake of giving each other the remains of the daythe leftover time after every other relationship and task has been attended to. This is not only backwards, but destructive. Stellar partners give each other prime time and make each other their top priority.

Dou Yupei

Though the country has long included all disabled and orphaned children in its welfare system, practically only those nursed in charity organizations have been attended to.

Marcia Gay Harden

My schools were quite diverse - those who serve their country come from every race and religion - and so the military schools I attended were a wonderful melting pot.

Tom Richardson

I'm a lifelong resident of Limestone County, and I attended Clements and have family that went to Clements. I just want to do something to improve and promote the west end of Limestone County.

Ed Moore

From what we know, it seems he attended Loyola. There is no documentation he ever graduated.

Dorothy Rothschild Parker

If all the girls who attended the Harvard-Yale game were laid end to end, I wouldn't be surprised

Bernadette Devlin

Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary ...

Bill Vaughan

It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the people; for I doubt whether in any village in England, had such an accident happened to the rector, all the people would have roused themselves at midnight to wreak their vengeance on the assailant.

Bertrand Russell

The desire for legitimate offspring is, in fact, according to the Catholic Church, the only motive which can justify sexual intercourse.

Sean Brady

The inviolability of the seal of confession is so fundamental to the very nature of the sacrament that any proposal which undermines that inviolability is a challenge to the rights of every Catholic to freedom of religion and conscience.

Ryan Coogler

Before playing football, I didn't fit in anywhere. My parents didn't have a lot of money, which they spent on our education to send us to Catholic private school in Oakland, mostly black. The other kids had more money than I did. I started school early; I was young. So I'd come back to my hood and read.

Ryan Coogler

I have real good parents. I have two brothers, and we got good educations. My parents didn't have a whole lot of money, but they spent the money they had on private school for us, Catholic school.

Megan Fox

I was raised Catholic. I went to Catholic school for 12 years.

Alice McDermott

My children have gone to Catholic school... Part of their whole education is talking about the inner life and looking at your life, even though you're only 15 or 16 - thinking about your mortality, thinking about the value of your life, thinking about your obligations.

Chris Smith

Who provides the love and a path to reconciliation? It's not Planned Parenthood; it's the Catholic Church, the other Christian churches, and the ministries they have created.

Bette Davis

I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

Dick Loschi

We were sluggish and a little off-kilter for the entire game. But the Notre Dame kids deserve credit. They played very hard.

Cameron Jensen

I won't lie to you. Notre Dame is such a fun place to play. I loved every minute of it, uh, except for when we weren't making plays.

Agnus Berenato

We really struggled offensively. We didn't have a flow. Notre Dame did a good job.

Phil Sicuso

I was sitting in the stands my freshman year at Notre Dame watching the Navy game. Navy ran the option, and I thought 'I can do that.' I figured I could walk on and run the scout team. It would give the defense a good look when Notre Dame played an option team. That inspired me to try out.

Lorenzo Booker

From what I've heard, they feel like they should have played a more 'worthy' opponent. Let's just say that some of their players, like Michael Robinson, said they wanted somebody ranked higher like maybe a Notre Dame or something like that.

George Novak

Had he been healthy, he would have never come off the field for us. That's how talented this kid is. He's a Notre Dame kind of player.

Tom Lemming

I think it sends a message that Notre Dame is back in business. It gives them a little oomph going into next year.

John Beilein

There is no difference between Notre Dame and the teams in the top of the league.

Raven-Symone

I went to public school, elementary through high school. I went to homecoming, to football games, pep rallies, I got detention, I got an F. I've done it all.

Patricia Polacco

I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

Andrew McPherson

We were hoping at one point to sell the (old) elementary school and use that money, but that's a contentious issue now.

Jeff Wrede

We have a form they use. It's a student application, and they have to tell us why they want to be a part of the mentoring program, and then why they think they're qualified to mentor elementary students.

Peter Thiel

A conventional truth can be important - it's essential to learn elementary mathematics, for example - but it won't give you an edge. It's not a secret.

Jeff Alexander

We need three more elementary schools, two more intermediates and another high school. We never have enough schools.

Julie Brown

I think I knew I was funny in Elementary School. I think most funny people realize it when they're young. It tends to come out of stress or trauma - something that makes you want to be funny.

Dick Bennett

We're all 100 percent for keeping the elementary schools in their communities opposed to making a warehouse for the kids, so to speak.

Ralph Teran

We have to push this (test scores) up so it has the same increase as middle schools and elementary schools.

Werner Klemperer

But when they offered this little situation for me to do this voice in this special segment, I found it so incredibly humorous that I said yes, and I enjoyed it. It was fun.

Steven Hill

That would probably be the one I like the most because (the fans) think it's something bad. But I kind of enjoyed it.

Larry Zimmer

That was the (coach) Leon Fuller era, ... I missed CU, but I enjoyed my time at CSU, also. There were some good people there, and I enjoyed working with them.

Marilynne Robinson

I really enjoyed my kids. They were good boys, you know, and interesting. And they didn't wear me out.

Pierre Pettigrew

We have to maintain the pressure. I can tell you one thing -- Iran has not enjoyed the last two resolutions we tabled,

Paul Thomas Anderson

I actually enjoyed the struggles that we had trying to shape 'Blood', to get the pacing right, the rhythm of it.

Mimi Kennedy

For many years, I didn't even like the idea of doing a one-person play. Public speaking got me past that. I've always been good at public speaking, but I never really enjoyed it. Then I started to really enjoy it, and that's made all the difference.

Paul Perkins

We have only been in the Rolla market about three years, but we have enjoyed considerable success and the feedback we have gotten tells us it would be good to offer our wide range of services on the south side of town as well,

Robert Koch

Wine has enjoyed the most positive image it has had in years from consumers, the media and government.

Beeban Kidron

There is nothing wrong with Facebook in itself, except that it is not a very good tool to express the quality of your relationships.

Nicolas Roeg

Don't you think it's something strange that you rarely look at yourself in the mirror, except to do things like stand and ponder? I mean, in Shakespeare's day, it was thought that the mirror would reveal something, that it is trying to tell you something - not just to tidy your hair, but something more.

Chris Gaynor

We played our hearts out. It was just like last year's game with Gonzaga, except this one hurts even worse because we were this much closer.

Raymond Carver

When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines.

Rebecca Solnit

To say that everything without exception is going straight to hell is not an alternative vision but only an inversion of the mainstream's 'everything's fine.'

Mark Zuckerberg

Our role is to be a platform for making all of these apps more social, and it's kind of an extension of what we see happening on the web, with the exception of mobile, which I think will be even more important than the web in a few years - maybe even sooner.

Patrick Modiano

A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

Patrick Chappatte

Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.

Paul Auster

The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.

Imelda May

I'm the youngest of five - three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.

Ian Mcewan

Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater.

Zoe Sugg

Who knows what will happen in five years' time.

Will Shields

Just looking at society as a whole, there are a lot of different things that we are not doing as a group to make sure we are close. Everything is in transit. People are moving from place to place. You can have a neighbor you live next to for five years and never speak to, and nobody has a problem with that.

will.i.am

If you listen to the songs I write, they are the most ADHD songs ever. They have five hooks in one and it all happens in three minutes.

Evel Knievel

I play golf five days a week. I find that if I play seven days a week, I get stale.

Emma Watson

I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things. I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

David Bailey

All my ex-girlfriends or wives are all kind of great friends and I've never understood somebody who can live with somebody for five or six years and then not like them.

Tim Armstrong

The overall radio space looks similar to the way the Internet did five or six years ago.

Michael Korda

To have a childhood surrounded by people like Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh sounds glitzy, but for years I wanted to repress it. I couldn't take that kind of power and success.

Jayne Meadows

Steve Laurence is the only person that was on the first 'Tonight Show,' right to the end. He was a little high school boy, 14 years old.

William Allan

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.

Bruce Weber

I like to start out each day from the beginning. I'm always learning things.

Brittany Howard

A song like 'Heartbreaker,' it's a song about learning - it's not necessarily a song about heartbreak. It's more than that. We write those songs to relive how we got over something.

Brian Kernighan

Every language teaches you something, so learning a language is never wasted, especially if it's different in more than just syntactic trivia.

Bonnie Bassler

I want to make a drug. I want the science to be more than imaginary, where I think, 'We're learning these fundamental principles, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.' I think we are doing that, but I want to do something really practical. I want to actually, in my lifetime, help people.

Nancy Gibbs

Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Sister Hinckley and I are learning that the so-called golden years are laced with lead.

Bertrand Russell

Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself.

Seth Numrich

Theater has been my way of learning about everything.

Imelda May

When I was a teenager, I had a record company after me. They wanted me to be a pop act. They said they wanted me to be the next Sonia. I was 16 at the time. I said, 'No thank you.'

Walter Alston

I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.

Constance Wu

I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Cecelia Ahern

You shouldn't try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you're supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it's necessary because it's all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.

Carlton Reed

That was a small situation that was made into a big deal. The problem was solved the next morning.

Nick Umholtz

That was sweet. I've never been in a playoff before. Now I'm going to have to back it up for next year.

Jon Copper

That we have a teammate who may not be with us next year. I'm still not sure what's going on or how it's going to end up.

Steve Novak

We need to keep getting better. There is no next year.

C. S. Lewis

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize.

Cecelia Ahern

Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are. Sometimes you have to unravel things to get to the core

Carrie Chapman Catt

In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.

Carrie Fisher

You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.

Bill Bryson

Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Order doesn't come by itself.

Anthony Storr

Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that an avoidant infant might very well develop into a person whose principal need was to find some kind of meaning and order in life which was not entirely, or even chiefly, dependent upon interpersonal relationships

Bill Vaughan

In order to pay it's got to be a pretty big winner. But if it's a big hit from a financial standpoint, then next year you've got a very tough comparison.

Bill Vaughan

We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.

Wislawa Szymborska

You have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.

Carl Sagan

Even through your hardest days, remember we are all made of stardust.

Bill Vaughan

These are days you'll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.

Tilda Swinton

till I was about 17. I can't remember why I stopped. I've tried (to suck my thumb) since, but it doesn't work anymore.

Eric Osmundson

I thought oh, not again. I remember my first year here was a similar situation.

Christian Moody

Julian just went up, and I can't remember who he dunked on, but who he dunked on will remember it.

Beck

I remember you would record a guitar part, and we would have to sit there for 15 or 20 minutes waiting for the computer to process it. You'd see the little wheel spinning on the computer, and you'd be praying that the hard drive didn't crash and you didn't lose the performance.

Juanita Johnson

I was thinking, 'Well, this is easy.' Three-fourths into it, I remember sweating. I hadn't sweated in a long time.

Larry Anderson

I was here for Camille and I'm leaving. I was here and I remember it well. I don't want to be here for another one.

William Shakespeare

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot; Follow your spirit: and upon this charge, Cry — God for Harry! England and Saint George!

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.

Bernard of Clairvaux

If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.

Brett Favre

I grew up a Saints fan, an hour from the Superdome.

Bella Freud

My earliest influences were Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent.

Brennan Manning

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.

English Proverbs

What is impossible to God? Not that which is difficult to His power, but that which is contrary to His nature.

Joddie Gleason

We know this is a big win. For us it was a big game. Saint Martin's really took it to us up there.

Bikram Choudhury

Do you know, every yoga school in India is free?

V. S. Naipaul

At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.

C. S. Lewis

What do they teach them at these schools?

Cathy Rigby

In high school I never went to the prom because I was too consumed with gymnastics. Also, with my hair in pigtails and looking about 10, I wasn't exactly date material.

Carrie Preston

Everyone thinks they went to high school with me. I take it as a compliment that I look different in every role.

Carrie Brownstein

Wholeness is sort of a dubious concept. Because in terms of the human body and literal wholeness and structures, you think: "here are the structures that help make me whole." Family, or school, or the city I live in. When those structures are dysfunctional or decaying, you end up kind of Frankensteining pieces from everywhere in order to make yourself sated and comfortable and alive.

Carrie Underwood

I did most of my volunteer work when I was in college because I knew of more ways to get involved. In high school, we'd do things like, there was a homeless shelter near our hometown and our church group decorated one of the rooms. In college, I was in a sorority, and we did a lot of things, like pick up trash on the highway.

Carrie Underwood

I'm about the only person in my family that's made it to 24 without being married. That's the way it works where I'm from. Most people, if you find someone to marry in high school, you do that, and if you don't find that, then you find someone in college.

Bill Burr

I'm an idiot, basically. I don't think that I'm a dumb guy, but I also realise that I have access to about 0.1 percent of the information that I need to have a truly informed opinion about half the stuff I talk about. I'm like that loud guy in the bar, who kind of makes sense for about ten minutes, and then you realise he flunked everything at high school so you just laugh at him.

Ivar Giaever

Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.

Ivar Giaever

'Incontrovertible' is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.

David Hanson

I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.

William Gibson

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things-from subatomic particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole.

Carl Sagan

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Carl Sagan

When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is promptly pushed and tugged out of the hive. The death pheromone is oleic acid. What happens if a live bee is dabbed with a drop of oleic acid? Then no matter how strapping and vigourous it might be, it is carried kicking and screaming out of the hive.

Carl Sagan

The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.

Carl Sagan

I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated.

Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

When I was a kid, my sisters and I used to get a little present in our stocking each day of December, usually an ornament, some sweets, or a little toy.

Lacey Chabert

I like to get together with my sisters and my nephews, and I try not to travel on weekends so that I can spend time with friends and family.

Bruno Tonioli

I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.

Barry White

Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.

Arthur Schopenhauer

That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.

Saint Ignatius

The wellbeing of the head resounds throughout the whole body, and as are the Superiors, so, in turn, will their subjects be.

Annie Dillard

A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

Elizabeth Bowen

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

J. R. Moehringer

You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you.

Jay Griffiths

A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own

Hannah Arendt

What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else!

Yao Ming

When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.

Etel Adnan

We were taught to think that Paris was the center of the universe.

William Shakespeare

You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse

B. F. Skinner

I've often said that my rats have taught me much more than I've taught them.

Esai Morales

My mother taught me when you go someplace, you leave it better than you found it.

William Shakespeare

Highly fed and lowly taught.

Dan Hawkins

I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

Leonard Cohen

I taught him how to dress. He taught me how to live forever.

Christopher Gorham

I taught at a cotillion. I was one of the teenage helpers when I was in high school. But we're talking very basic.