Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and our ancestors. But if we don't grow out of it in the fullness of time, our ... nature makes us a sitting target for astrologers, mediums, gurus, evangelists, and quacks. We need to replace the automatic credulity of childhood with the constructive skepticism of adult science.

William Golding

The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers but won't tell.

George Foreman

That gal's all skull and no brains. She's like Joe Frazier with lipstick.

Mark Millar

We ordinary people might lack your great speed or your X-Ray vision, Superman, but never underestimate the power of the human mind. We carry the most dangerous weapon on Earth inside these thick skulls of ours.

Tao Lin

You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.

Jonathan Lethem

I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.

Henry Flynt

A fully open mind could shatter the skull in both directions.

Charles Lyell

When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld.

Barbara Kingsolver

Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.

Joe Clark

I think it is probably just a matter of there being more bears and more people in bear range than ever before.

Dave Wannstedt

We thought we'd see some New England Patriots in their offense, ... but it was still Pitt versus Notre Dame, not the Miami Dolphins or the Chicago Bears versus the New England Patriots.

Chris Bowman

I think Thursday definitely bears watching for us -- especially southeast Kansas.

Nick Brown

It isn't my physical presence that bears down on the disease.

Lee Hannah

It isn't just polar bears and penguins that we must worry about any more.

Ozzie Guillen

I don't care if you're a Cubs fan, a Bulls fan, a Bears fan. I think a lot of people now are Chicago fans,

Mike Cammalleri

He goes to the net hard when he gets in front. It's like he sees red, you know? He bears down and makes sure the puck ends up in the back of the net.

Richard Paul Evans

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

Samuel Richardson

The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.

Richelle Mead

Do you know anything about silent films?" "Sure," I said. "The first ones were developed in the late nineteenth century and sometimes had live musical accompaniment, though it wasn't until the 1920s that sound became truly incorporated into films, eventually making silent ones obsolete in cinema.

Robert Evans

It has been said that a friend is somebody with whom it is possible to be silent.

Julie Burchill

The 'g' is silent - the only thing about her that is.

Elizabeth I

I observe and remain silent.

Helena Christensen

When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.

Edith Stein

Those who remain silent are responsible.

Catherine Deneuve

I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.

Brian Higgins

That's why the Partnership is silent on this,

Benjamin Disraeli

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.