Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Otero

Herodotus, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle all claimed that they knew nothing and so I guess I know even less.

Jennifer Frederick

It goes back to the Greeks. Plato was an idealist, Aristotle was a materialist.

Johnson

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, ''I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.

Nicholas Jarecki

Aristotle wrote the 'Poetics' 2,400 years ago. It's really an instruction manual for aspiring filmmakers. It's as valid today as it was then.

Diogenes

Aristotle was asked how much educated men are superior to the uneducated: "As much," said he, "as the living are to the dead

Rachel Sheinkin

Aristotle said that the essence of drama is fear and pity. Where do you feel more fear and pity than when you look at a kid in a spelling bee?

James Gleick

It's fair to say that Wikipedia has spent far more time considering the philosophical ramifications of categorization than Aristotle and Kant ever did.

Stacy Schiff

Of course, women have long exercised influence behind the scenes. A few thousand years ago this drove Aristotle to distraction: 'What difference does it make whether women rule or the rulers are ruled by women? The result is the same.'

J. Paul Getty

During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.

Jose C. Orozco

All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.

Dick Durbin

He said he spent more time worrying over and working on that decision,

King Krule

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

Spike Jonze

After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.

Ted Cruz

I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.

Brian Dake

I spent a lot of time up there; I'd say all of it.

Miriam Toews

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.

Evan Osnos

I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.

Libba Bray

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

E. O. Wilson

We've spent a lot of time together. If it works out, it would be great.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

Terry Pratchett

Wikipedia, eh? Must be accurate then!

Jimmy Wales

When I opened Wikipedia, it had three articles, yet it was called an encyclopedia.

Jimmy Wales

Wikipedia is a non-profit. It was either the dumbest thing I ever did or the smartest thing I ever did.

Clay Shirky

Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.

Nicholson Baker

Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.

Gore Vidal

Everything's wrong on Wikipedia.