Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Norton

The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.

Donald Knuth

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Andrew Weil

Following an anti-inflammato ry diet can help counteract the chronic inflammation that is a root cause of many serious diseases, including those that become more frequent as people age. It is a way of selecting and preparing foods based on science that can help people achieve and maintain optimum health over their lifetime.

Anne Sexton

But even in a telephone booth evil can seep out of the receiver and we must cover it with a mattress, and then tear it from its roots and bury it, bury it.

Anne Rice

It draws it's strength, this big secret, from the same root from which I draw my strength, both the good and the bad, because in the end, they cannot be separated.

Robert A. Heinlein

If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!

Steven Heller

Graphic designers should be literate in graphic design history. Being able to design well is not always enough. Knowing the roots of design is necessary to avoid reinvention, no less inadvertent plagiarism.

Stephen Sondheim

Let Pirelli's / Miracle Elixir / Activate your roots, sir... Keep it off your boots, sir- / Eats right through. Yes, get Pirelli's! / Use a bottle of it! / Ladies seem to love it... Flies do, too!

Red Buttons

Alex Hailey, who traced his roots all the way to the back of the bus. Never got a dinner!

Alain Badiou

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Al Franken

During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president. Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, 'There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.'

Jared Diamond

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.

Daniel H. Wilson

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

Bob Dole

There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and...evil.

Charles Spurgeon

If Christ has died for me - ungodly as I am, without strength as I am - then I can no longer live in sin, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me. I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend. I must be holy for his sake. How can I live in sin when He has died to save me from it?

Dennis Prager

Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur Voraussetzung hat, ja sogar das Bewusstsein. It is in and by itself absurd to regard non-existence as an evil; for every evil, like every good, presupposes existence, indeed even consciousness.

Edmund Burke

Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.

John Logan

Young screenwriters are always very frustrated when they talk to me. They say, 'How do we get to be a screenwriter?' I say, 'You know what you do? I'll tell you the secret, it's easy: Read 'Hamlet.' You know? Then read it again, and read it again, and read it until you understand it. Read 'King Lear,' and then read 'Othello.'

John Bytheway

One of the hard lessons to learn in life is that there are some things you can control and some things you can't. If you want a short recipe for being frustrated and miserable, this is it: focus on things you can't control.

Bill Reath

We had a talk about it in practice. It's not our priority. But if she's close, we are going try to run plays for her. It's quite a milestone. She's had a good season and teams have been guarding her tough throughout the playoffs, which I know has frustrated her. She's handled it well though.

W. S. Gilbert

Every year's a new challenge. Every game's its own separate entity. We just have to work through every game. It's a learning experience. People get frustrated when we lose, but we've been here before. And this week's a challenge; we don't get a week off. It's 10 weeks of a meat-grinder, but that's they way we want it. We like games like this. Our kids play well in games like this.

Bill Nygren

We were puzzled and frustrated by that, ... We were displeased with (management's) lack of urgency.

Joe Gibbs

We wish the last two years had been smoother. We wish there had been no injuries. We wish he could have played more and played back to the standard where he wanted to be. I know he was totally frustrated by it.

Jared Phay

We were just out of sync and frustrated -- it just wasn't our night.

Ray Liotta

You know, I started out really hot out of the box. Then I've definitely had and up-and-down career. And when things started cooling off again, it frustrated me.

Rush Limbaugh

I've got the greatest line in the world about the pope coming out in favor of contraception, and I don't dare use it. I don't even dare hint getting close because the moment you understand it, I'm in trouble. So it's something I've gotta contain and avoid bursting and so forth, and now you're frustrated because I've teased you with it.