Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lars Trier

I also wanted t do a film with a religious motif, a film about miracles. At the same time, I wanted to do a completely naturalistic film.

Rob Sheffield

Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.

Richard Dawkins

If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born in Arkansas and you think Christianity is true and Islam false (knowing full well that you would think the opposite if you had been born in Afghanistan), you are the victim of childhood indoctrination.

Richard Dawkins

I think there in a great deal to be said for religious education in the sense of teaching about religion and biblical literacy. Both those things, by the way, I suspect will prepare a child to give up religion. If you are taught comparative religion, you are more likely to realise that there are other religions than the one you have been brought up in. And if you are if you are taught to read the bible, I can think of almost nothing more calculated to turn you off religion.

Richard Dawkins

Are science and religion converging? No. There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out to be identical to those of other scientists who straightforwardly call themselves atheists.

Richard Whately

A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.

Russell Crowe

I never looked at Noah as an animal collector. I always thought of him as an apocalyptic character. I read everything I found about it and was surprised to find that in all religions there is the story of the flood, and that one "hero" saved the world. This proved that Noah and his Ark - were not a religious myth, and is evidence that humanity really went through the flood.

Roger Babson

Every great panic we have ever had has been foreshadowed by a general decline in observance of religious principles.

Tryon Edwards

The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.

Sara Gruen

Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?

Vincent Van Gogh

Drawing is the root of everything.

Will Oldham

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.

Zhuangzi

Silence, and non action are the root of all things.

Yo-Yo Ma

After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.

Vladimir Nabokov

The square root of I is I.

Wynonna Judd

I am a fan of today's sound as long as we don't get too slick, and yet I am very reverent of my roots.

Wyndham Lewis

No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.

William Penn

Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.

Curt Schilling

He obviously sat next to me in Washington and lied. I don't know that there's any way to prove that anything he did was not under the influence of performance-enhancing drugs.

Jim Haslam

I don't give so I can have influence over there,

Tish Olszewski

I'm not sure what influenced him to go to VNI. Maybe it had something to do with his acting. In an undercover capacity, you really have to act.

Charles Dean

I have tremendous respect for Walt, ... He has left a lasting influence on all of us.

Kelly Doski

Everyone loves kids. I think having my own was a big influence in wanting quality care.

Dan Walker

Even when he was in there, we were ready for him and we stopped him. Missing him was a big influence on their plays.

Liv Warfield

Being with Prince and the New Power Generation, I was very influenced by those sounds, and now I'm more than ready to show that side of me with confidence.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Policy counselleth a gift, given wisely and in season; And policy afterwards approveth it, for great is the influence of gifts.

Page Hamilton

We went to South America on a trip and all I had was a Robert Johnson album. So that's a definite influence on the album. My bandmates John [Stanier, drummer] and Henry [Bogdan, bassist] were interested in expanding their roles as writers, so that had a positive impact on the record.