Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. B. White

"What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle--it's just a web." "Ever try to spin one?" asked Mr. Dorian.

Anne Bronte

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

Isaac Asimov

There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.

Immanuel Kant

Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.

Immanuel Kant

Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.

Immanuel Kant

It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences.

Immanuel Kant

Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order.

Immanuel Kant

Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.

Immanuel Kant

Human reason is by nature architectonic.

Stephen King

There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.

Burn Gorman

I'm afraid the 'Doctor Who' door is probably closed because of me being in 'Torchwood.'

Ellen DeGeneres

I have the picture of Barack [Obama] and me dancing right outside of my dressing room door, I see it every single day, and it makes me very happy.

Brad Horn

It's incredible and exciting and one of the most historic feats in the Hall of Fame's history. She's being honored for her groundbreaking efforts. 2006 will always be remembered for the first woman and potentially open the doors for others.

Jeremy Shada

I try not to shut any doors before I even get there. I like doing music. I like singing. I love all music. Music kind of goes hand in hand with acting anyway.

James Redfield

The world is set up - as foreign as that can be to some people who are very materialistic - but there is a force in this world, once we step into it, that opens doors for us, that gives us a sense of purpose and the greatest life there is, in my view.

Stephen Brown

It wasn't because the New Jersey National Guard knocked down their doors and dragged them, ... It's because they wanted to.

Henry B. Eyring

Our education must never stop. If it ends at the door of the classroom on graduation day, we will fail. And we will need the help of heaven to know which of the myriad things we could study we would most wisely learn. We cannot waste time entertaining ourselves when we have the chance to read or to listen to whatever will help us learn what is true and useful. Insatiable curiosity will be our hallmark.

Portia de Rossi

When I watched Ellen come out in '97, my jaw was on the floor. I thought, There are some people who break the doors down, hold them open, and some people who walk right through.

Jonathan Safran Foer

If it had and answer, it wouldn't really be love, would it?

Jonathan Safran Foer

Well, let me leave it at this: if God does exist, He would have a great deal be sad about. And if He doesn’t exist, then that too would make Him quite sad, I imagine. So to answer your question, God must be sad.

Sally Thompson

The judges commented not only on the completeness of his display, but also on his articulate answers in his oral interview.

Rob Harper

You've got to look at very long-term impacts, with people out of their homes for months or years. The magnitude of the population displaced is very troubling. You look at 'OK, how many of our hospitals might be functioning?' There are pockets of New Orleans that still don't have power. Where do you move these people if you have to move them? We don't have answers right now.

Lois McMaster

The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers, you know

Stephen Gould

The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start (examining evolution), and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science-or of any honest intellectual inquiry.

Gavin Smith

The frustration level is not uncommon. The not knowing and not having the answers is frustrating. Disaster victims just don't know what to expect.

Norman Mailer

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

Emile M. Cioran

Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.