Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian K. Vaughan

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.

Edsger Dijkstra

A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box.

Aristotle

The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.

Anna Jameson

You must never believe what the newspapers say. I stand aghast at the impudence of the lies they contain, things not only false in fact, but absolutely impossible.

Anna Jameson

As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing with it the rest of the character.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

...For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.

Adlai Stevenson

A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.

Thomas Fuller

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

Thomas Fuller

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

Arthur Schopenhauer

All religions promise a reward beyond this life in eternity for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head, of the understanding.

Brittany Murphy

I have never tried [cocaine] in my entire life. I've never even seen it. ... I am also way too high-strung. I can't even take a Sudafed. Can you imagine? My God. I think my heart would explode.

Elif Safak

We were all created in His image, and yet we were each created different and unique. No two people are alike. No two hearts beat to the same rhythm. If God had wanted everyone to be the same. He would have made it so. Therefore, disrespecting differences and imposing your thoughts on others is tantamount to disrespecting God’s holy scheme.

Anna Jameson

I do not like new things of any kind, not even a new gown, far less a new acquaintance, therefore make as few as possible; one can but have one's heart and hands full, and mine are. I have love and work enough to last me the rest of my life.

Craig Scriven

We had a lack of offense. We had a lack of effort. We had a lack of heart in the first half.

Wayne Bennett

When you lose somebody, even if you never worked with them, it's a part of your heart and soul.

Steve Parker

To see the destruction is one thing. But to see it with your heart makes a world of difference.

Tom McDonald

We all help each other. When Mike Haley was laid up with his heart problem two years ago, Jack was the first one on the job.

Dave Clausen

To me, Herb has been like the heart and soul of the board. He is a one-of-a-kind.

Robert Frost

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Deepak Chopra

Our brains are too slow to register that every concrete object is winking in and out of existence at the quantum level thousands of times per second.

Neil Young

At our school, we deal with kids who have brain injuries, strokes, cerebral palsy, things like that. I'm very familiar with that. So I was thinking of not being able to do what I do. It didn't freak me out. It just made me think: Now you've got to play this card. Now you're going to do what you can, in the time that you have.

Michael Douglas

My brain cannot conceive how old my body is.

Ray Bradbury

Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers.

Michelle Monaghan

I want to be inside Nic Pizzolattos brain.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Don't cudgel your brains over my little problems.

Seth MacFarlane

What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.

Sebastian Faulks

If not just the brain but the quirks that made the individual were composed of recycled matter only, it was hard to be sure where the edges of one such being ended and another person began.