Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Einstein

It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

Vincent Canby

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

Samuel Beckett

And all these questions I ask myself. It is not in a spirit of curiosity. I cannot be silent. About myself I need know nothing. Here all is clear. No, all is not clear. But the discourse must go on. So one invents obscurities. Rhetoric.

John Archibald Wheeler

I like to say, when asked why I pursue science, that it is to satisfy my curiosity, that I am by nature a searcher trying to understand. If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.

Rachel McAdams

I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.

Joe Murray

With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity.

Kim Cattrall

My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.

Kathleen Norris

I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity and ability to cope with change.

Jules Verne

I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.

Pauline Kael

If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be?

Frank Bruni

Shiatsu, deep-tissue or maybe even Rolfing: Which manner of pummeling becomes a cephalopod most?

James McBride

If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.

John Roberts

End-stage liver disease refers to a liver that's failing, and a very high percentage of those livers are what we call cirrhotic, or the patient's liver has become cirrhotic, and what cirrhosis is, is the scarring of the liver tissue.

Augusten Burroughs

Even when we lose an arm or a leg, there's not less of us but more. Human experience weighs more than human tissue.

Anthony Atala

Every 30 seconds a patient dies from diseases that could be treated with tissue replacement,

Rick Riordan

Percy tried to remember. He really did. For some reason, Annabeth and he had visited a spa and decided to destroy it. He couldn't imagine why. Maybe they hadn't like the deep-tissue massage? Maybe they'd gotten bad manicures?

Michael Behe

Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life.

George F. Kennan

World communism is like [a] malignant parasite which feeds on diseased tissue

Richard Pryor

Have you ever noticed how quiet you get when you go in the woods? It's almost like you know that God's there.

Walt Whitman

I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked.

Roger Ebert

The movie Ed Wood, about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for Stargate.

Helmut Jahn

We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't.

James Russell Lowell

The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood.

Emilio Pucci

We are in a very strange way going back to the mentality of the time when Americans went in covered wagons. I imagine they had a piece of cloth, and the piece of furniture they carried with them meant to be a good piece of wood, and sturdy. We're going back to that.

Rachel McAdams

I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it out and be really resourceful.

Keegan Bradley

I realize Tiger Woods is Tiger Woods; he's intimidating.

Peter S. Beagle

The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone.