Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Fowles

It was too exactly as imagined to be true. But I felt as gladly and expectantly disorientated, as happily and alertly alone, as Alice in Wonderland.

Lewis Carroll

Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.

Lewis Carroll

How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.

Lewis Carroll

I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.

Lewis Carroll

In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.

Lewis Carroll

If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.

Lewis Carroll

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

Lewis Carroll

Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.

Lewis Carroll

You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness.

Carrie Fisher

The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls.

Benoit Mandelbrot

I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.

Art Alexakis

The world's most effeminate heterosexual, Daniel Johns

Anthony Storr

Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as irrational but which are shared by millions are called world religions.

Bill Bryson

A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.

Bill Burton

There is a lightning quickness to the speed at which candidates can build and accidentally dismantle their own campaigns. If candidates don't figure out their place in the new digital world of politics, they will be destroyed by it.

Bill Burr

It's a whole new world as far as getting a show on the air. There's good things and bad things.

Bertrand Russell

We ought to look the world frankly in the face.

C. S. Lewis

This moment contains all moments.

Carl Sagan

We live at a moment when our relationships to each other, and to all other beings with whom we share this planet, are up for grabs.

Amy Irving

Theater actors know what their motivation is for each scene. They treat it very seriously as a craft. You do your homework. The reason I always need to go back to theater is the most stimulating moments are in rehearsal... whereas often in film, you've go to do it on your own.

Roy Jorgenson

We had chances. We had looks. We played a 'B' game. There were moments where we played 'A' soccer.

Lance Armstrong

Those are motivating moments for me. That's the way I can give back to someone who is in the same position I was.

Randy Shaffer

I have my moments - my ups and downs.

Jeff Fager

What you get on Yahoo is an expanded version of different moments in the story.

Marty Schottenheimer

I think it is tough; I think it is difficult. But you know that's just the nature of our business. I'm sure he has moments of frustration and/or disappointment. But he has a lot of fiber.

John Smith

I can't remember too many moments that exciting.