Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Heywood

What a time herbs and weeds, and such things could talk, A man in his garden one day did walk, Spying a nettle green (as th'emeraude) spread in a bed of roses like the ruby red. Between which two colors he thought, but his eye, The green nettle did the red rose beautify. "How be it," he asked the nettle, "what thing Made him so pert? So nigh the Rose to Spring.

John Galsworthy

Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind. A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!

John Dewey

It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy, and, above all, to give them such shape that the dependencies of the various facts upon one another may be as obvious as possible.

John Dewey

Selection aims not only at simplifying but at weeding out what is undesirable.

Joe Jonas

The first time I smoked weed was with Demi [Lovato] and Miley [Cyrus]. I must have been 17 or 18. They kept saying, ‘Try it! Try it!’ so I gave it a shot, and it was all right. I don’t even smoke weed that often anymore.

George Clooney

The owner of a local cannabis café told reporters George Clooney was no stranger there.

Louis Armstrong

It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend.

Freya Stark

The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites; but he is not thinking about destruction except incidentally. It is only the amateur like myself who becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure in weeds that are big and bad enough to pull, and at last, almost forgetting the flowers altogether, turns into a Reformer.

Maggie Stiefvater

The place smelled like Sam -- or, I guess, he smelled like the store. Like ink and old building and something more leafy than coffee but less interesting than weed. It was all very ... erudite. I felt surrounded by conversations I had no interest in participating in.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?

Joy Behar

I want to do an intelligent talk show where you have room to breathe.

Joseph Goebbels

It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.

Karl Albrecht

Albrecht's Law - Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity.

Kapil Dev

I never understood whether the word 'amnesty' is correct or not. Maybe I am not very intelligent but I checked the dictionary to find the meaning.

Paul Kurtz

We have never denied that it is possible, indeed probable, that other forms of life, even intelligent life, exist in the universe. But this is different from the belief that we are now being visited by extraterrestrial beings in spacecraft, that they are abducting people, and the there is a vast government cover-up.

Paul Davies

We might expect intelligent life and technological communities to have emerged in the universe billions of years ago. Given that human society is only a few thousand years old, and that human technological society is mere centuries old, the nature of a community with millions or even billions of years of technological and social progress cannot even be imagined. ... What would we make of a billion-year-old technological community?

Patrick Collison

The part of Stripe that I've always found most interesting is the idea of facilitating new commerce that wouldn't otherwise happen. Payouts is turning out to be a big part of that. These new networks are efficient, intelligent replacements for offline behemoths.

Peter Greenaway

I want to regard my public as infinitely intelligent, as understanding notions of the suspension of disbelief and as realising all the time that this is not a slice of life, this is openly a film.

Ayn Rand

Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

Charles Kettering

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

Darren Moloney

As the male was giving his statement to the officers, several items of drug paraphernalia were observed in plain view.

Elizabeth Morgan

At that point, we got out and tried to coax him into giving us the child. He wouldn't, so we called 911.

Jennifer Stater

At that point, parents need to start giving them tips about how to say 'no' to peer pressure.

Ryan Madson

This one's particularly tough just because giving up that many runs that early, it takes away from my hitters.

Raymond Queneau

We think of giving importance to history, but it is the individual who is interesting, and we want to give him a historical importance.

Chris Johnson

We did a lot of things right tonight. They're always happy when I give them a day off, and this is a time when I can feel good about giving them a day off.

Scott Justus

We did a lot of good things defensively. That's what we've been, quote, hanging our hats on. We're averaging giving up 43 points a game.