Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society.

Robert M. Pirsig

The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

Virginia Woolf

The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.

Rebecca Solnit

If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.

Nelson Eddy

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

Nawal El Saadawi

I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

R. C. Sproul

The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The opposite of nature is impossible.

Trent Rollins

I was disappointed with that. We're on top of the guy and then all of a sudden we flipped to our back and we're pinned within seconds. I don't know how that happened.

Delta Burke

I put the weight on after we were together. I put on about 20 pounds when we got married, and people were flipping their lids. And then I put on more after that, and I've gone up and down since then.

Finding Nemo

Chum: Dolphins. They think they're so cute. Oh, look at me, I'm a flippy little dolphin, let me flip for you.

Kelly Clarkson

I know, I know, I know. So I flipped out!

Jim Crowley

You've got to flip over every rock you can. There's some untapped ground, but not much.

Chris Armas

And on the flip side, they know us pretty well. There won't be any big secrets.

Don Harrison

The flip side of hurricane preparation is hurricane cleanup.

Taylor Swift

Words are everything to me. Words can build you up and feel so good. On the flip side, words can absolutely demolish you.

Karl Lagerfeld

I am physically allergic to flip-flops

Carl Jung

Mine. I'm on my side.

Rick Riordan

See you on the other side. -Percy Jackson

Richard M. Nixon

Screw State! State's always on the side of the blacks. The hell with them!

Samuel Johnson

There must always be some advantage on one side or the other, and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance.

Virgil

Fortune sides with he who dares

Will Wright

Everybody has a different definition of the good side.

Vincent Van Gogh

We are surrounded by poetry on all sides...

Salman Rushdie

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

Virginia Madsen

The actor side of me loves to get dressed up and I feel like Cinderella when I'm in diamonds.