Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Banville

Death is such a strange thing. One minute you're here and then just gone. You'd think there would be an anteroom, a place where you could be visited before you go.

P. Herbert

Death is still working like a mole, / And digs my grave at each remove.

P. J. O'Rourke

Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace.

Stella Young

Death is not treatment, even if it's medically facilitated.

Nora Ephron

Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be.

George Grace

Death is a part of the process in storm recovery, ... We're not Houston. We can't house thousands of evacuees. We can host this staff and let them do their work.

Deborah Pearlstein

Death is a given in wartime. But this isn't about death in the heat of battle; this is about how we treat those already at the mercy of U.S. forces. It's about who is responsible for the policy and practice of the United States.

Njeru Ndwiga

Death has robbed us of a true servant who was keen on his job.

Philip Massinger

Death has a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one

Auguste Comte

Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

Arthur Koestler

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky.

Bertrand Russell

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

Bertrand Russell

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.

Octavia E. Butler

Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.

Calvin Coolidge

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

Charles Kettering

People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.

Charles Kettering

Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.

Charles Darwin

If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.

Stephanie Scalessa

As a runner, the mental toughness Steven has is amazing.

Leroy Foster

The motivation wasn't there. I don't know if it was the layoff, but they just weren't ready to play. The mental mistakes, the turnovers, everything just showed they weren't prepared.

Megan Callahan

Roose has tremendous physical and mental toughness, leadership, skills, and experience.

Carol Hutchins

Samantha's one of the most mentally tough people I've ever met,

Publius Tacitus

There will be vice as long as there are men

Ray Walston

I've often wondered, when they've done Of Mice And Men on stage, and I've seen it, how they did that gun thing. I've watched it on stage, but I don't remember it.

Sam Blank

It was a little different. I think its all about warming up and staying mentally focused.

Cate Blanchett

I've been pretty lucky in the leading men department.

Michael Ignatieff

Thinkers too often disparage men of action in ways that do them no credit.