Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Shermer

The reason people turn to supernatural explanations is that the mind abhors a vacuum of explanation. Because we do not yet have a fully natural explanation for mind and consciousness, people turn to supernatural explanations to fill the void.

J. M. Coetzee

There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness of writing. Fundamentalism means nothing more or less than going back to an origin and staying there. It stands for one founding book and, thereafter, no more books.

Thomas Jefferson

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Navneet Sikera

The situation has more or less returned to normal.

Mark Pope

Every year, when I'm with a new team, that's one less team that doesn't know that I can't play.

Richard Rose

The results are less important than what's going on in Rajasthan.

George Rupp

The result is that we are less prepared than we would like to be for what could be a very serious humanitarian emergency.

David Wright

There's going to be a lot less pressure on Carlos this time around. That's why it doesn't matter where I hit. This team is going to score runs, period.

Robert Kiyosaki

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

Jim Pate

We'll need no less than 10 volunteers a day and no more than 25 a day, and they must be prepared to be self-sufficient for one to two weeks.

Sydney J. Harris

This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.

Thomas Jefferson

We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.

Rodney Lovell

A 'work around' simply means your system doesn't work.

Kelly Clarkson

Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me.

Steven Forester

He'll be singing in his upper register to give the idea of what it means to be roasted on a spit.

Emyr Parry

If you can do one centrifuge, you can do 164. If you can do 164, you probably do many more. That means you have the potential to do full-scale enrichment. If you can do enrichment up to 7 percent, you can do 80 percent. If you can do 80 percent, you can produce a bomb.

Leon Hall

That just means we have to do everything that we need to do perfectly. Know where we need to be at, know our technique. If you mess up your technique with this guy, he can make you pay.

E. Hicks

It means a little stability, a little security.

Michael Drake

Evolutionary theory says if there is a God, then he has not made things by means of design, purpose or, in the creationist point of view, with immediacy.

Dwight Yorke

It means now that we have it all to play for and a win will seal it for us,

Chris Harper

We're so young that when they start to press, we think that means we need to speed up.

Steve Martin

I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct.

Michael Eisner

Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.

Jorge Luis Borges

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

George Gershwin

It is always possible to create something original.

Clem Metz

She just stands there -- like some employees.

Robert Frost

Time and Tide wait for no man,but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.

George Carlin

Surround yourself with what you love.

Phil Donahue

We'll be staying right here in the neighborhood,

Gary Brackett

It's exciting. But I'm not one to get content. I'm one for staying hungry. I think we can play better.

Bobby Jones

We were staying at the University of New Orleans, and it was awful, worse than you can imagine.