Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. W. Howe

No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.

Scott Reed

The Pelosi-Durbin announcement was like a tree falling in the forest. Nobody heard it.

Bill Hader

I think that's the thing I learned at 'Saturday Night Live' - any time I would try and strategize, I would always, always fall on my face. Things worked out when I tried to make it about what I was feeling at that moment and what I was into in that moment of my life.

Cecelia Ahern

Chin up, don’t smile, don’t cry, don’t fall, walk.

Cecelia Ahern

Moments are precious, sometimes they linger and other times they're fleeing, and yet so much could be done in them; you could change a mind, you could save a life and you could even fall in love.

Cecelia Ahern

Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.

Cecelia Ahern

This love thing awakened a group of slumbering senses in my body that I never even knew existed.

Cecelia Ahern

Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Open your heart and follow where it leads you...and remember, shoot for the moon.

Cecelia Ahern

I'm never overwhelmed or under it either; just nicely whelmed. I'm OK. Nothing spectacular but sometimes special. I look in the mirror and see this medium average person. A little tired, a little sad, but not falling apart.

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.

C. S. Lewis

Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

C. S. Lewis

I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them.

Cecelia Ahern

When you're on your own, you look for signs. Sometimes you make them up, sometimes they're actually there, but most of the time you can't tell the difference from the two.

Carrie Fisher

I have two moods. One is Roy, rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood. And Pam, sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs... Sometimes the tide is in, sometimes it's out.

Carrie Fisher

There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects.

Carl Rogers

Most of us consist of two separated parts, trying desperately to bring themselves together into an integrated soma, where the distinctions between mind and body, feelings and intellect, would be obliterated.

Carl Sagan

Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has seven thousand matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger. Well that's the kind of situation we are actually in. The amount of weapons that are available to the United States and the Soviet Union are so bloated, so grossly in excess of what's needed to dissuade the other, that if it weren't so tragic, it would be laughable. What is necessary is to reduce the matches and to clean up the gasoline.

Carl Sagan

First rule in government spending: Why build one, when you can have two at twice the price?

Bill Bryson

A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work.