Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Knuth

Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been sorted with the help of a computer.

Elizabeth Hagood

No sir, I'm not at all saying that, I'm explaining to you the process that has taken place so far.

Lindy Ruff

It would be tough to stand here and explain to you guys how they had our number if we had lost tonight.

Alfred Rock

It was a once-in-a-lifetime moment. I really can't explain it. It was crazy.

Day One

Yes, look, I don't think I can explain this any better to you, but we don't want to ... Well, I guess I will have to find another hospital.

Christine LaBombard

Twenty-four turnovers, especially at this time of year, is kind of scary. I really can't explain it.

Gerhard Schroeder

We had to explain to voters that we can only maintain our social welfare system if we reform it,

Jerry Flanagan

What the HMOs can't explain is why premiums are increasing twice as fast as hospital and physician costs.

Jacob Koella

The fact that the parasite manipulates the mosquito to this extent can help to explain the incredibly intense transmission of malaria.

Jim Calhoun

I've been in a (locker) room with some talented teams and some teams that bordered on greatness. But I don't know if I've been in a room before with so many kids that have sacrificed so much.

Archibald Alexander

No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.

Blaise Pascal

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Demosthenes

Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.

Edmund Burke

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.

Edgar Allan Poe

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Eduardo Galeano

The human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, our possible greatness, our possible beauty.

John Buchan

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

Damien Hirst

You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks.

Sheila E.

Don't forget, I was a musician long before I ever met Prince. That's a big difference between me and those other women he's worked with. We operate on the same plane, as equals.

Paul Boyce

We could've met a nobody next but that would've been no use to anyone.

Barney Oliver

Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.

Seth Lloyd

I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex.

Scott Snyder

- If I tell you, will you let met go? - You bet, partner. [...] - You promised! - Nope. I said "you bet." You did ... and you lost.

Mike Tyson

Sarah Palin met the wombshifter! Old Sarah and the wombshifter.

Deborah Kerr

Personally, I think if a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

Maureen Phillips

He was a very gentle, wonderful, kind soul. In 22 years ... I never met a person who didn't like him.

Joe Mullins

I have met a lot of nice people here.

Cloris Leachman

Everything is so sad and so wonderful.

Christopher Walken

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

Thom Gunn

Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.

Michael Faraday

Nothing is to wonderful to be true

Maureen O'Hara

How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?

Max Beckmann

It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!

Nancy Horan

It's wonderful to feel desired. There's a sense of power in it, really.

H. L. Mencken

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but...

Vincente Minnelli

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.

Plato

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

Source Unknown

Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.

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.

Louise Erdrich

It was enough just to sit there without words.