Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Carolla

People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'

James Hunt

Our pre-kindergarten programs have shown a better work force and have attracted more businesses into the state. We implemented our Smart Start program in 1993. In my first two terms in the 1970s, we focused on elementary and high schools. We realized we were starting too late. We knew to be effective we had to start even earlier.

James Richardson

Think of all the smart people made stupid by flaws of character. The finest watch isn't fine long when used as a hammer.

James Russell Lowell

A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.

James Purefoy

If you're going to lead people, you better know how to manipulate people, and you have to be pretty smart to be able to do that.

James Randi

People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

James Randi

No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived.

James Redfield

We're just animals, creatures smart enough and unlucky enough to have figured out we're alive, and we're going to die without ever knowing any purpose. We can pretend all we want and we can wish all we want, but that basic existential fact remains—we can't know.

Laurence J. Peter

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

Aristotle

The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.

Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see.

George Toups

You have to take care of these animals 365 days of the year. It's not just a Monday through Friday type of job.

David Attenborough

I'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them.

David Attenborough

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.

David Attenborough

If we and the rest of the back-boned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if the invertebrates were to disappear, the world's ecosystems would collapse

David Attenborough

There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.

Daryl Hannah

Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.

Daryl Hannah

It's really important to me to show the interconnectedness of things. I always try to illustrate how environmentalism, humanitarianism, animal rights - all those things - are one and the same.

Blaise Pascal

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.

Thomas Haden Church

I love knowing that I'm not better than any other person on the planet.

Thomas Hardy

Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.

Tim Conway

People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words.

Thomas Ligotti

And the worst possible thing we could know — worse than knowing of our descent from a mass of microorganisms — is that we are nobodies not somebodies, puppets not people.

Vilfredo Pareto

Assume that the new elite were clearly and simply to proclaim its intentions which are to supplant the old elite; no one would come to its assistance, it would be defeated before having fought a battle. On the contrary, it appears to be asking nothing for itself, well knowing that without asking anything in advance it will obtain what it wants as a consequence of its victory.

Vicki Baum

What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English -- SWELL and LOUSY.

Vernor Vinge

Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.

Viktor E. Frankl

I try to do everything as soon as possible, and not at the last moment. This ensures that, when I am overburdened with work, I will not face the added pressure of knowing that something is still to be done.