Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woodrow Wilson

I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist's trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.

Ricardo Semler

The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism, just as democracy is much more cumbersome than dictatorship. But there will be few companies that can afford to ignore either of them.

Steve Dixon

If youre using the same filter, youre going to get a lot of the same byproducts at the end,

Sam Phillips

I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.

Scott Podsednik

I'm pretty crazy, so to speak, a little superstitious. I'm using something different up there just about every week.

Rodrigo Santoro

In film, you're always using your tools, your body, your voice, your emotions, but onstage, you use them in a different way.

John Campbell

The back door's metal. So we're going to be using a water charge.

Steve Truglia

As a close-up magician, I was using gambling cheating techniques.

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

Rick Riordan

The next microsecond, as the water erupted around me, I realized too late that I should've brought the entire Twenty-first Nome to help me.

Rick Riordan

Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!” “Tempting,” Percy called down.

Rick Riordan

The metal blade hit her shoulder and passed cleanthrough her body as if she were made of water. HISSS!

William McDonough

We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their own waste, water and release it slowly in a purer form.

Sarah Bernhardt

... actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius.

Sappho

I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.

Rebecca Stead

If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is.

Richard Rohr

It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up.

Richard Dawkins

To illustrate the vain conceit that the universe must be somehow pre-ordained for us, because we are so well-suited to live in it, he [Douglas Adams] mimed a wonderfully funny imitation of a puddle of water, fitting itself snugly into a depression in the ground, the depression uncannily being exactly the same shape as the puddle.