Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Henrie

I'd like to spend a day in Jesus's life. That'd be the most insane thing ever. I would love to do that.

Werner Herzog

In Germany, you would be hanged if you cracked a joke about Hitler and you would be killed by the state if you were insane in a project of euthanasia.

Salman Rushdie

This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.

Salman Rushdie

The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.

Robert M. Pirsig

If there were only one person in the world, is there any way he could be insane?

Robin McKinley

He didn't look insane or inhuman. He did look uncooperative.

Voltaire

If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

Dave White

In 20 years of coaching, I don't think I've ever seen scouts go instantly insane over a player like they do when they see Martin on the field. Martin's upside is unlimited, and he's done a phenomenal job in quickly making friends with his teammates.

Kevin Spacey

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

Richard D. James

A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.

Lord Shaftesbury

As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.

Robert Collier

We have become so accustomed to hearing everyone claim that his product is the best in the world, or the cheapest, that we take all such statements with a grain of salt.

Rob Thurman

We all have our security blankets in this world. Some are just sharper than others.

Rob Sheffield

'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world.

Richard P. Feynman

Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.

Richard Dawkins

Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.

Richard Dawkins

Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.

Richard Wright

Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world, I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.

William James

A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough.

Roger Ascham

Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & how vnapte to serue in the world.

Samuel Johnson

The business of the poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the species.

Friedrich Engels

Without analysis, no synthesis.

Mitt Romney

I bathe in statistics.

Art Buchwald

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.

Arthur C. Clarke

When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.

Edmund Burke

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

Aristotle

Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'