Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baltasar Gracian

Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.

Aristophanes

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Charles Bukowski

there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's asleep. I say, I know that you're there, so don't be sad. then I put him back, but he's singing a little in there, I haven't quite let him die and we sleep together like that with our secret pact and it's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't weep, do you?

Michael Vaughan

England fans are very clever and have special ways of getting tickets and I'm sure we'll be well supported in Australia.

Douglas Hofstadter

I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is weaker than I would like. And most likely the readers, authors, and editors of that magazine would be equally hard pressed to come up with cogent, non-technical arguments convincing a skeptic of this point, especially if pitted against a clever lawyer arguing the contrary. How come Truth is such a slippery beast?

Alberto Moravia

War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.

Alexander McQueen

Having money hasn't changed me. If anything it's made my life worse. People come up to you who knew you before you were famous and who didn't come up to you before. I'm a clever designer. I can do what the client wants. But I'm prepared to forget about money if it affects my creativity because, remember, I started off with nothing. And I can do that again.

Duke of Wellington

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned

Dalai Lama

Although individuals may be highly intelligent, they are sometimes dogged by skepticism and doubts. They are clever, but they tend to be hesitant and skeptical and are never really able to settle down. These people are the least receptive.

Pat Abeln

An engineer is designing the runway right now.

Brian O'Neill

The solutions to the problem are relatively simple. We can design seats and head restraints that are not expensive, that can eliminate a lot of these injuries.

Charles Curtis

The system should not have failed in this way, it should have held together. And there's either design problems or as we are saying, voltage support weaknesses in this system that have to be addressed,

John Gibbons

You saw it all tonight -- by design.

Oleg Cassini

A designer is like a doctor for a woman. He has a specific job, and if he is doing it well, he will have the gratitude of the woman for the rest of his life.

Jamie Zawinski

To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.

Tim Berners-Lee

Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases.

Charles Petzold

The human species is often amazingly inventive and industrious but at the same time profoundly lazy. It's very clear that we humans don't like to work. This aversion to work is so extreme - and our ingenuity so acute - that we're eager to devote countless hours designing and building devices that might shave a few minutes off our workday

Dieter Rams

The design should make the product speak to you.

Dick Lamm

This is not a self-correcting problem. PERA needs to be put on a long-term program toward solvency.

Jamie Zawinski

Your needs are big because the Internet is big.

Charles Spurgeon

Every generation needs regeneration

Dick Van Dyke

You need someone to love, and something to do that you enjoy, and something to hope for, and that's enough for me.

Eckhart Tolle

You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God

Elif Safak

No matter who we are or where we live, deep inside we all feel incomplete. It's like we have lost something and need to get it back. Just what that something is, most of us never find out. And of those who do, even fewer manage to go out and look for it.

David Bowie

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

Jerry Calhoun

Boeing has always provided a competitive package of total compensation that addresses the needs of all employees.

Jennifer Connolly

Bethany does well but as always the pitcher needs defense.