Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Cronkite

We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.

Oscar Wilde

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

John B. S. Haldane

This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

James Thurber

The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.

Edward Teller

When Columbus took off, the purpose was to improve trade relations with China. That problem has not been solved to this very day, but just look at the by-products.

John Lyly

Fish and guests in three days are stale.

Lance Morrow

The jumbo jet is the airborne equivalent of the interstate highway...One might as well be stuffed into a cartridge and shot through a pneumatic tube, like interoffice mail.

H. L. Mencken

The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus homo boobiensis...surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies.

Michael Bakwin

I will put (the paintings) on the walls of my house, and in my safe when I leave. I was lax.

Carl Jung

You'll always be safe with me.

Ron Chernow

The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.

Troy Polamalu

Being compared to the greatest-ever safety is pretty ridiculous. I continue to work toward that, but I'm not there and I know that.

Woody Allen

If you aren't failing every now and then, you're probably playing it too safe.

Richard Gere

Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human.

Virgil

The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.

Will Smith

Anything can go away. There's no such thing as safety and security. You can do things that give you the illusion of safety and security, but there's really no such thing.

Warren Buffett

The three most important words in investing...Margin of Safety.

Yogi Berra

Prediction is very hard, particularly when it's about the future.

Kevin Kelly

Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.

Christopher Reeve

I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.

Niels Bohr

It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future.

Jackie Mason

Predictions are preposterous.

Frank Herbert

Absolute prediction is completion . . . is death!