Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Davison

I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?

Albert Einstein

Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!

J. M. Coetzee

Censorship is not an occupation that attracts intelligent, subtle minds. Censors can and often have been outwitted. But the game of slipping Aesopian messages past the censor is ultimately a sterile one, diverting writers from their proper task.

Leonardo da Vinci

Fear arises sooner than anything else.

Leonardo da Vinci

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

Leonardo da Vinci

Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom.

Lev Grossman

Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.

Laurence Fishburne

I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point.

Fulton J. Sheen

Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin.

Henry Rollins

Put temptation on the unenjoyment line.

Theodore Parker

Great success is a great temptation.

Adelbert von Chamisso

A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.

Conrad Hall

It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.