Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baruch Spinoza

I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel's, Herbart's and Schleiermacher's complete philosophical works.

Steve Nash

You have good games, you have bad games. You have good years, you have bad years. I have always been kind of philosophical about that.

Philip Roth

Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either, and nothing passes just because nothing lasts.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.

Mason Cooley

Modern thought does not offer consolations, but upsets.

Oscar Wilde

All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.

Jamie Bell

I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings.

Elijah Wood

Geeks are generally the most interesting people.

Shane Carruth

It's interesting because I don't ever want to ask a better question than I can answer, if that makes sense. I find that frustrating as a viewer. Compelling questions, while not easy, are easier than compelling answers.

Jack Nicholson

Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.

Evan Rachel Wood

Anytime you have to get intimate on camera, it's always a little interesting. You have to trick your brain almost, so that you don't get stage fright or get too much in your head where you're super uncomfortable.

Eva Green

I didn't want to do 'Casino Royale' when they told me to audition. I said no. Then they sent me the script, and I thought it was actually very interesting - and I had no other work at the time.

Paul Berg

But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.

Marya Mannes

Infants are interesting only to their parents.

Mary Frann

I'm not perfect, but those flaws make an interesting person.

Richard Gordon

Of the 300 houses in the area, only three are left that are not covered.

Grover Norquist

I've been in the White House more in the last two weeks than I was in the last two years.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.

C. S. Lewis

Imagine yourself as a living house.

Coco Chanel

It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.

Donald Trump

So in our shared mission to make America great again, I support and endorse our Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan.

Adam Sandler

I've always had lots of friends and my house was the house they all hung out at.

Amy Poehler

Prince Harry this week toured the Jersey Shore with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. It was the first meeting between the Prince, of the House of Windsor, and the Governor, of the House of Pancake.

Alec Baldwin

When I'm not working, I dress like a surfer. I look like I'm going to come into your house and clean your pool.