Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Gitlin

My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies.

Kenneth L. Pike

Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.

Lewis Mumford

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.

Kelly Miller

When the armistice was declared American forces had fought their way to Sedan.

Kelly Miller

Kara Braxton, she's a great player, so I think they can go far this year.

Kenneth L. Pike

We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?

Kenneth L. Pike

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.

Kenneth L. Pike

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

Kenneth L. Pike

The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.

David A. Bednar

The Savior has suffered not just for our iniquities but also for the inequality, the unfairness, the pain, the anguish, and the emotional distresses that so frequently beset us.

Clint Eastwood

I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the '60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff.

Richard Adams

We can show that booking online frequently generates a 15 percent saving on ticket prices, and savings in travel management fees of approximately 50 percent.

Robert Waters

I guess I'll just have to stop more frequently to get fuel little by little.

Bob Edwards

The people that show up here are wanting a job, they are wanting to get back into society. The problem is that society hasn't frequently let them back in.

Natasha Trethewey

I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.

Brian Moehler

We're going to make mistakes. That's just the way it is. Hopefully you learn from those mistakes and don't make them as frequently as the year goes on.

Bill Owens

Government frequently has a problem recognizing perception versus reality.

Ben Carson

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

Peter Sis

When I do my own books, I take it as more of my own confessional, but when I illustrate for other people, it is intriguing because I feel like I shouldn't be stepping too much into the limelight. It's like playing the piano while someone else is singing.

Rachel Corrie

I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.

Dario Fo

For some time it's been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.

Michael Robotham

Violence is inevitable in crime novels, but there are many different ways to tell a story. I use my characters' reactions to illustrate the worst moments rather than let readers witness them at first hand.

Eric Lindros

I think so. We'll see how it responds (to Monday's practice), but right now I think so.

Carlos Mesa

We must create a state that responds to the citizens' needs, and we need citizens who feel committed to their state because that state serves the citizens.

Ivar Giaever

Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.

Ivar Giaever

'Incontrovertible' is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.

David Hanson

I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.

William Gibson

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things-from subatomic particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole.

Carl Sagan

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Carl Sagan

When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is promptly pushed and tugged out of the hive. The death pheromone is oleic acid. What happens if a live bee is dabbed with a drop of oleic acid? Then no matter how strapping and vigourous it might be, it is carried kicking and screaming out of the hive.

Carl Sagan

The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.

Carl Sagan

I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated.

David Suzuki

Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.

Bill Nye

I feel that I've often pointed out that there are countless aspects of life and nature that scientists and scientific thinkers cannot explain. Why the universe is accelerating in its expansion and what came before the Big Bang serve as compelling examples. The process of science provides a way to seek answers to those questions.

Ben Okri

I was going to be a scientist.

Arthur Koestler

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

Taylor Wilson

If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.

Alan Alda

I must have interviewed 600 or 700 scientists all around the world.

Susumu Tonegawa

I see myself as a scientist who is interested in what's going on inside of us.

Donald Johanson

Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.

Dennis Flanagan

Science is what scientists do.