Famous Quotes & Sayings

William De Morgan

I expressed just now my mistrust of what is called Spiritualism — ... I owe it a trifle for a message said to come from Voltaire's Ghost. It was asked, Are you not now convinced of another world? and rapped out, There is no other world — Death is only an incident in Life.

Mel Gibson

The whole notion of politics is they always present you with this or this or this. Nobody is the same. I'll get a newspaper to read between the lines. Why do you have to adhere to prescribed formulas that they have and people argue over them and they're all in a box. And you watch Fox claw CNN, and CNN claw Fox. Sometimes I catch a piece of the news and it seems insanity to me. I quietly support candidates. I'm not out there banging a drum for candidates. But I have supported a candidate and it's a whole other world.

Philippe Petit

Whenever other worlds invite us, whenever we are balancing on the boundaries of our limited human condition, that’s where life starts, that’s where you start feeling yourself living.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I know other worlds exist. I can see them in my peripheral vision.

Philip Pullman

One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen.

Philip Pullman

We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.

Paul Kurtz

We need to be skeptical of utopianists who offer unreliable totalistic visions of other worlds and strive to take us there. We need some ideals, but we also need to protect ourselves from the miscalculations and misadventures of visionaries.

Jonathan Edwards

Resolved, to endeavor to obtain for myself as much happiness, in the other world, as I possibly can.

Robert Crais

If my vision was good enough, I'd be an astronaut.

Ryan O'Marra

I've never done it before. Sometimes it's tough. I don't have any peripheral vision.

Umberto Eco

The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief

Reid Hoffman

Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.

Reid Hoffman

There's an ability to learn & adapt, an ability to constantly have a vision that's driving you, but to be taking input from all sources.

Viola Spolin

My vision is a world of accessible intuition.

William James

Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.

Robert Nozick

It goes without saying that any persons may attempt to unite kindred spirits, but, whatever their hopes and longings, none have the right to impose their vision of unity upon the rest.

Will Smith

If you look at somebody like 50 Cent, ain't nobody telling 50 what to do and how to do what he does. He has a vision of who he wants to be, and he instructs everybody along those lines.

Sara Blakely

When something I can't control happens, I ask myself : where is the hidden gift, where is the positive in this?

Richard M. Nixon

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

Willa Cather

I ain't got time to learn. I can work like mans now.

Whoopi Goldberg

It never occurs to me that there are things I can't do.

Kelsey Grammer

What I can control is how I react. I can't control anything else.

Kyle Chandler

I can gab with pretty much anyone.

Linda Tripp

I can live with myself.

Lil Wayne

I don't take nothin' from no one. I do what I wanna do. And I'm gonna do that until the day I die. And if I can't do that, then I'll just die.

Kelly Ripa

Woo-hoo! I'm 40. I can say that now.