Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Fisher

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

Carl Rogers

Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.

Carl Sagan

Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.

Carl Sagan

These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught up in a powerful emotion -- wonder, fear, greed, grief. Credulous acceptance of baloney can cost you money; that's what P. T. Barnum meant when he said, 'There's a sucker born every minute.' But it can be much more dangerous than that, and when governments and societies lose the capacity for critical thinking, the results can be catastrophic -- however sympathetic we may be to those who have bought the baloney.

Bill Bryson

So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea – or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we don’t know if any of them are right. According to Felipe Fernández-Armesto, at least thirty-eight theories have been put forward to explain why people took to living in communities: that they were driven to it by climatic change, or by a wish to stay near their dead, or by a powerful desire to brew and drink beer, which could only be indulged by staying in one place.

Arnold Schoenberg

I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.

Aron Ralston

Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning.

Bill Budge

I have a really powerful urge to see things work.

Bill Bryson

Hardly anyone ever leaves. This is because Des Moines is the most powerful hypnotic known to man. Outside town there is a big sign that says, WELCOME TO DES MOINES. THIS IS WHAT DEATH IS LIKE. There isn't really. I just made that up. But the place does get a grip on you.

Mary Carillo

That was something to me. There were times when I was crying, and she'd come around to me and say, 'Are you all right, Mary?' I was broken up.

Richard Browne

We have broken up ... a major counterfeiting ring that has been inflicting substantial losses in the recording industry,

William Shakespeare

For trust not him that hath once broken faith

Phyllis Battelle

A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see.

New Giants

You can go out there and get your neck broken and be paralyzed, ... It's a dangerous job we do.

Nicholas Christakis

You can die of a broken heart not just when your partner dies but also when your partner falls ill.

Carroll Doherty

It hasn't broken through with the public in a big way.

Jeremy Bonderman

I thought it was broken at first. I won't say that it hurt so much as it was the shock of the hit. I'm just happy it is what it is.

Adrian Beltre

I thought it was broken at first. I've got the feeling back in it now, so I know it's going to be OK.

Bethenny Frankel

I'm stronger than anything in my way. Holla!

Sena Drawer

I think they're each getting stronger and more used to one another on the court.

Chris Sierzant

I have 14-year-olds that are stronger than some adults.

Rusty Agte

Her voice is much stronger than it was, and getting better each day.

Michael Culver

I wrote: Vicki and Michael, stronger than fire.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A concept is stronger than a fact.

Eartha Kitt

I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

Adam Pine

We've always had it in us. The men's team will keep getting stronger and stronger.