Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leo Rosten

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Tom Verlaine

You have to have that organizational principle behind the song.

Thomas Berger

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Leo Rosten

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Gore Vidal

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.

Gloria Naylor

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

Anne Tyler

At most I'll spend three or four hours daily, sometimes less.

James Agee

Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture - none of it under the right people.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

The temple of art is built in words.

Ben Vereen

As far as working with Chita Rivera, all I can say is it's a dream come true. Her artistry and discipline and dedication is a joy to be around.

Michael Leunig

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

Lord Stevens

Articles in the press bore no relation to what had been said at meetings they reported.

Douglas Booth

Articles always end up being about my appearance. I had a conversation with Jude Law: he told me people's obsession with looks goes away after a while.

Kris Kobach

Article II will trump anything Congress tries to do through statute.

Bob Gibbons

Arthur is a McDonald's All-America kid who had some contact with Indiana before. It's possible he could reopen that door, but it might be too late.

Pat Bowlen

Arthur has a point. We have to be careful that we don't have owners put perks on it to help decide where we play the Super Bowl. I don't think it's there yet.

Arthur Ashe

Arthur Ashe Jr. is a true Virginia hero, and he belongs here,

Susan Vreeland

Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them.

Gary Campbell

Coaches are usually defensive minded anyway. I've always built the defense starting with the middle linebacker.

Chris Hadfield

And then when we assembled it, the mechanism, which was built in Russia, just worked exactly like everybody said, so it was letter perfect.

Dana Landry

The students built on that. I feel that it's growing, getting better, and it's a sign that we're moving in the right direction.

Carolyn Strauss

The show has built momentum with our subscribers and with the critics.

Joel Silver

I've never felt the company run so well. I've never felt the divisions work together so well, ... These guys really are inspirational leaders. They really have built a fantastic organization. There used to be a lot of divisiveness. In past managements it was sometimes very hard to get things done. Now these guys are just fantastic and they make it an incredible place.

Laurie Williams

I've been a dog trainer for 25 years, that's how I got the idea, ... I knew people wanted to do things with their dogs. So I studied the pet market industry, and with this county growing, I knew if I built it, they would come.

Patrick Comack

A dividend cut is not built into the stock price. If AT&T were to cut the dividend it would be a disaster.

Rick Kern

The old plan had no preservation issues built into it.

Ben McGee

A database is being built to house all of the data we collected, and by displaying the data in a time-series manner, USGS scientists will get a visual sense for the flood inundation as reported by the loggers.

Charles Eastman

There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.

C. S. Lewis

You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there.

George Herbert

No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by.

Robert M. Pirsig

In the temple of science are many mansions ... and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them there.

Rufus Choate

We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.

April Winchell

Your body is a temple, whether you're a Jew or not.

Tertullian

Woman is a temple built over a sewer.

Zubin Mehta

My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.

Joseph Seamon

O God, give me words to make my dream-children live.

Aristotle

... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.

Aristotle

... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.

Plato

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

Source Unknown

Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Be careful what you swallow. Chew!

Gottfried Leibniz

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.

Gottfried Leibniz

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.

Nikki Giovanni

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.