Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victor LaValle

Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The Haunting of Hill House,' the boondocks had all the fun. As a black kid in Queens, New York, I couldn't have felt more removed.

George Santayana

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Jon Johansen

Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.

Britt Beemer

I would say that the first quarter of next year probably has already been doomed by this episode,

Lisa Wathne

Had this little lion lived, he would have been doomed to a life of extreme confinement and boredom.

John McCarthy

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

In the end, for all of Obama's grand rhetoric on ridding the world of nuclear weapons, history has doomed him to preside over the emergence of two rogue nuclear regimes (North Korea and Iran).

David LaBahn

When you're saddled with the fact that it's not low-level offenders and there's no accountability, it's doomed for failure.

Jerome Charyn

'Suttree' is a fat one, a book with rude, startling power and a flood of talk. Much of it takes place on the Tennessee River, and Cormac McCarthy, who has written 'The Orchard Keeper' and other novels, gives us a sense of river life that reads like a doomed 'Huckleberry Finn.'

Giles Foden

Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.

Colm Meaney

It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.

Rick Perlstein

I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.

F. Sionil Jose

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

Bernard Beckett

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

Bernard Berenson

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Antoine Rivarol

History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.

Megan Smith

We have two boys, and one of our kids is much more interested in history and stories, so if you want him to do some calculations about lenses, you would start talking to him about Galileo... Then he would be into the lenses, but if you just start talking to him about lenses, he might not stay with you.

Scott Stossel

I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life.

Glenn Ford

He was very commanding, and you had to know what you were doing to work for Mr. Rogers. I learned how to ride very quickly with him as my riding teacher.

William Shatner

With three kids, it was always very, very tight, and it was always a scramble for what was my next job. So I learned never to go into debt because I don't want those monthly payments to preoccupy my thoughts.

William Allan

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

Eric Lamoureux

The over-riding question is, what will we learn from Katrina?

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.

Brad Grey

I learned no detail was too small. It was all about the details.

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.

Judd Anderson

It doesn't get any easier. It will be tough to repeat what we did today.

Darren Clarke

I wish I could repeat it a little more often.

Ron Redmond

We've been there over a week, and we've made repeated requests.

Chris Neil

I can't repeat that in the paper. You've got to let him know you can't let him run around like that. I just told him, we play them one more time.

Jeff Bower

I will repeat that, again, he's been disciplined.

Alan Curtis

One can always hope, but I worry this will be a repeat of that experience. After the 1960 riots, there was a lot of talk and a lot of commissions, but there was no real sustained action.

Debra Messing

Repeat after me: 'I am doing the best that I can.'

Charles Meyers

It's not that I'm cavalier, it's more frustration at being contacted repeatedly with the same complaint.

Jesse Ventura

Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.