Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norman O. Brown

The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.

Marcus Aurelius

Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet .

Nell Minow

They got the words right and the substance wrong, ... I'm very disappointed.

Diane Wakoski

We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.

Edith Wharton

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

Barry Commoner

In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.

George Berkeley

I do not deny the existence of material substance merely because I have no notion of it, but because the notion of it is inconsistent, or in other words, because it is repugnant that there should be a notion of it.

Jacques Barzun

Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice.

Ivan Pavlov

Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach.

Evan Bayh

I think I should hear what the man has to say before making up my mind, ... Whoever is chosen for this spot could be on our nation's highest court for 30 years perhaps, and deal with some of the most fundamental liberties that we have in this country. So I think it's important we take our time, ask the right questions, listen carefully to the answers and then reach a considered judgment.

Paul Heath

It answers who did it and possibly why they did it, and to that extent, there is closure.

Robert Vaughn

The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries.

Robert Reich

Education is not the only answer and it's certainly not the immediate solution. At best, it's a necessary, but not sufficient response to widening inequality.

Will Thomas

Does a bibliophile ever have enough room on his shelves? The answer is obvious: get more shelves.

Warren Buffett

Unless your answers are clearly better, copy the answers of your betters.

W. H. Auden

Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit A social science.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Our model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not only being but becoming, not only geometry but ethics. It is not the answer we are after, but only how to ask the question.

Robert M. Pirsig

every answer one finds leads to ten more questions. The more we learn the less we know.

Sara Cox

I used to be double-jointed in my hips, so I could put my toe in my mouth. That can't be classed as a talent really, rather a mild deformity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

Joseph Addison

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

Jose Saramago

Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed.

Khaled Hosseini

I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.

Kesha

I don't really plan what comes out of my mouth, and that's what makes most of my lyrics entertaining.

Ellen Key

All philanthropy is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.

Kristen Bell

I have the mouth of a sailor.

Natasha Lyonne

Sometimes the things that come out of my mouth are mortifying.