Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joel Edgerton

I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got a lock on a personality, even just in life, and then they'll shock you by their behavior.

Victor Hugo

There are people who observe the rules of honor as we observe the stars: from a distance

Isaac Asimov

It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus. It is not recorded, incidentally, that the lesson has ever been permanently learned.

Gloria Steinem

It's hard to measure success when we're dealing with between 500 and 5,000 years of patriarchy depending on which continent we sit, so I would say feminism has been successful and we have a huge distance to go, huge.

Grant Morrison

It's stupid, I know, but I care. All the things that meant so much when we were young. Under the blankets late at night, listening to long-distance radio. All those things lost now or broken. Can you remember? Can you remember that feeling? Perhaps I ought to go to a doctor.

Robert Ellis

I figured there would be five to seven ride clear. We put a few distance problems in, but we also made it very delicate, so it took a lot of riding.

Rohinton Mistry

Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.

Yitzhak Shamir

We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.

Rick Warren

It's easy to demonize from a distance.

Samuel Johnson

Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars without reply, and ravages without resistance. Without good humour virtue may awe by its dignity and amaze by its brightness, but must always be viewed at a distance, and will scarcely gain a friend or attract an imitator.

Bob Uecker

The MRI scan looked like I had swallowed a cantaloupe. It was an abdominal aortic aneurysm. I was shocked because, except for the back pain, I felt good.

Oscar Hammerstein II

The dearest things I know are what you are.

Ellen Hopkins

The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.

Lord Kelvin

To measure is to know.

Maika Monroe

You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Nature knows best how to organise.

Haruki Murakami

Some things, you know, if you say them, it makes them not true?

Mitch Kapor

The Internet, the network of networks, is growing at an exponential pace. It's growing so fast, in fact, nobody really knows how many people use the Internet.

James Patterson

You know, when you're right, that's all you get to be.

Al Roker

And if you do not watch the show, she knows 17 different ways to kill you with a paper clip. That's television!

Terry Tempest Williams

What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.

T. Harv Eker

Money is a result, wealth is a result, health is a result, illness is a result, your weight is a result. We live in a world of cause and effect.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.

Ho Chi Minh

We have a secret weapon...it is called Nationalism

Adam Smith

All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist.

Cyndi Lauper

Secrets stolen from deep inside....the drum beats out of time