Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Keats

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

Gary Jacobson

Bilbray is the most prominent figure out there and so he will be everybody's target. Then, he has the distinction of being a lobbyist I would have been astonished if this was not used by his opponents.

Joseph Flaherty

We are astonished and devastated to learn of the hidden life of Neil Entwistle. We never suspected that Neil was anything other than a loving father, a trusted son-in-law and a husband.

John Snow

I'm astonished every time I come to see how much has happened since the last time I came, ... the changes are nothing short of breathtaking.

Michael Korda

I'm always astonished when I go into Barnes & Noble at the number of people buying books, of course, but also at the variety of books they do buy and the extent to which they are not the big bestsellers.

Kevin Starr

I don't think Hiram Johnson would condemn it, ... but I think he would be astonished at the breakdown of dialogue between the two major branches of government.

Chris Grayling

I think most people will be astonished at the way ministers seem to be using the Queen's Flight as a private taxi service.

Anne Wright

I think he was astonished he won it, ... I wasn't, of course. He considered himself a minor poet, not a major poet.

Marcus Aurelius

How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.

Ronald Harwood

He wanted to make a picture for children. So I read a lot of stuff and he read a lot of stuff. . . . But I don't like all those fantasy books, I'm not good at 'Lord of the Rings' and the 'Harry Potters.' . . . It's not my world. I like things to do with reality and the world we live in -- or lived in.

Robin Hobb

I think when writers play with dragons, we are simply doing what fantasy writers have always done.

Frederik Pohl

There is a method which distinguishes SF from fantasy, though a lot of the science fiction written does not go by that method, and some fantasy does.

Carl Olsen

We make fun of each other, but it is a group of friends, and we are not any more competitive than a fantasy football league. There are no prizes for winning, but people still want to win.

Richard O'Brien

I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.

Sarah Zettel

The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.

Gurdjieff Gurdjieff

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ''lives'' his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

Cassandra Clare

The more that you travel the more you get the sense of the word as a larger place and the more you get a sense of the variety of history and mythology. And when you know about these things you can incorporate them into what I feel is a more rich and more large tapestry of fantasy.

Molly Quinn

I love, love, love fantasy, like Lord of the Rings and things like that.

George William Norris

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

Seth Shostak

In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees and about a zillion mosquitoes - and was no larger than an office building.

John Thompson

It is a little larger than we've ever done, but as we prepare for the jail, it's just something we need to do.

Reba McEntire

Patsy Cline? Larger than life! She taught me emotion: raw, sincere, unashamed.

Marvin Roffman

The larger companies, they're so broadly diversified, it's a hiccup, ... That's the whole purpose of having numerous properties. If you're a small operator, then it can become meaningful.

Susan Bennett

It's part of a larger plan for the Center.

Joe Klein

You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.

Dave Scott

It's a larger fumigation, but it wasn't the most challenging we've done.

Sean M. Carroll

I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.

E. O. Wilson

It had her performing stripping, touching herself, things of that nature.

Richard P. Feynman

But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Richard Dawkins

Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

Tryon Edwards

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

Reinhold Messner

I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything....

William Wordsworth

"One impulse from a vernal wood

Richard Louv

Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health strategy.

Richard Louv

Research suggests that exposure to the natural world - including nearby nature in cities - helps improve human health, well-being, and intellectual capacity in ways that science is only recently beginning to understand.

Richard Louv

Numerous studies document the benefits to students from school grounds that are ecologically diverse and include free play areas, habitats for wildlife, walking trails, and gardens.

Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

Acting and singing were just a hobby, but getting into drama school made me realise I could actually do it for a living.

Brian O'Driscoll

In your mid-20s, you think you'll go on for eternity. Then a point comes where you realise that's not going to be the case.