Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant.

Richard Baxter

Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to those that understand them?

Richard Baxter

We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary

Tricia Helfer

I definitely have to admit that I am fairly ignorant, not just to 'Tron,' but almost any pop culture thing that I should know, at my age. I grew up without a television and rarely got to see a movie, so I didn't really see any of that stuff, and I haven't been able to catch up since.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.

Epictetus

Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed, that you slip not into the manner of the vulgar (the uninstructed).

Epictetus

You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth?

Kathleen Hanna

I was like, "Oh my god, I hope you're secretly grossed out about everything that [Donald] Trump has been doing." But why is it such a shock to anybody? He's said so many things that show who he is and how ignorant he is from the beginning.

Mary J. Blige

The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant.

Jen Warden

Kim is a player who does a lot more than score. She is a player that really gives tremendous attention to the Mountain West . . . and she is earning all of the attention she is receiving.

Al Feldstein

Kids are no longer interested in reading comic books; they've got television and the electronic games that they can bury themselves in like ostriches. They don't have to pay attention to what's going on in the world around them.

Cedric McGowan

James brought it to my attention in one of the timeouts that we had that I needed two more rebounds to get (20). I just worked hard to get it.

Rasheed Wallace

Keep us on the back-burner. We won't lose our swagger at all, because when you put that food on the back-burner, it's just simmering and it tastes better. When you got that food on the front burner, that's the one you're paying attention to the most, and that's the one that might burn. We're on that back-burner.

Jerry Cohen

Joyce is a perfect example of someone who saw an issue that needed attention and brought it forward to AARP. We were pleased to work with Joyce and Representative Hunt to change this law and help protect those using handicapped placards from identity theft. Working together, we have the power to make it better.

Roger Fox

I think it kind of got everybody's attention when it failed and we established a new citizens committee that really stepped up and helped us pass it this time.

Mark Cavallone

I think it has to change. You're going to see more attention to tie corporate strategy to the Internet. If that happens, not every stock is going to go up.

Sean Miller

It always get everybody's attention when you get up at 5:15 and have to get taped and then go (practice) for an hour and a half. We'll keep doing that until we get a commitment to get after loose balls. We're a team that's going to have to beat you with sheer numbers. We need eight or nine guys getting after it. When we have a couple guys going their own separate ways and we turn the ball over and not get after rebounds, we'll have a hard time beating anybody.

Donnie Marbut

I take full responsibility for that. I regret that I didn't have attention to detail, and regret not double-checking and being as precise as I could be.

John Abraham

I don't even see the point. He's like a stranger to me.

Truman Capote

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Sara Blakely

I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.

Richard Rodriguez

There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.

Wiz Khalifa

Bestfriends become strangers. That's how it is.

Will Rogers

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

M. Scott Peck

Let me simply state that it is wrong to regard any other human being, a priori, as an object, or an 'It.' This is so because each and every human being - you, every friend, every stranger, every foreigner - is precious.

Barack Obama

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.