Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Rogers

Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity.

Winston Churchill

Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.

Winston Churchill

When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.

Winston Churchill

Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?

Winston Churchill

There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned had to be left to Fortune or to God - or to whatever may decide these things. I am content and shall not complain.

Winston Churchill

I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.

Winston Churchill

I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.

Winston Churchill

If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace.

Winston Churchill

I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget... we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat... All is over. Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness... We are in the presence of a disaster of the first magnitude which has befallen Great Britain and France. Do not let us blind ourselves to that... Do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning.

Russell Brand

Murderers! Stop murdering. Everyone will die eventually. Just sit down and be patient.

Tyler Cowen

The more information that's out there, the greater the returns to just being willing to sit down and apply yourself. Information isn't what's scarce; it's the willingness to do something with it.

Neal Schon

I've got the recording process down, and I can knock it out very quickly.

John Cleese

You go in and meet the head of BBC One and get an assurance about not dumbing down. And then, of course a few months later, he's been replaced by someone you haven't met.

Linda Ronstadt

Music should be an elective experience. You should go, "I'm going to sit down and listen to some Beethoven, by God," and then you get to hear it.

Kanye West

I see stuff from the future, and I'm such a futurist that I have to slow down and talk in the present.

Lou Gramm

It's only in the seventies that I put the sticks down and I moved to the front.

John F. Kennedy

No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.

Brian Tracy

Imagine if your business burned down and you had to walk across the street and start again, what would you do differently?

William McDonough

We realized we don't have an invention, that's why we gave it away.

Richard Courant

Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention.

Walter Scott

Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.

Jonathan Safran Foer

In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that.

Jeff Bezos

Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.

Brandee Bryant

You can be involved and not have ever thought about science or invention in your life. You can have a lot of fun.

Germaine Greer

Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.

Sydney Smith

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.