Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.

William Shakespeare

There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently

Djuna Barnes

Only the impossible lasts forever.

David Mitchell

I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.

Carl Sagan

There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got here. It is an on-going search, often unconscious, for a cosmic perspective for humanity

Bryce Dallas Howard

The greatest sci-fis, in my mind, are two things: They're what-ifs - what if this happened, and you get to see it - but they're also these philosophical cautionary tales. They deal with the underlying themes beneath the what-if.

Charles Dickens

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!

Charles Dickens

I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. But I know what I have seen, and what I have looked in the face in this world here, where I find myself. And I tell you this, my friend, that there are people (men and women both, unfortunately) who have no good in them-none. That there are people whom it is necessary to detest without compromise. That there are people who must be dealt with as enemies of the human race. That there are people who have no human heart, and who must be crushed like savage beasts and cleared out of the way.

Charles Baudelaire

Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.

Carl Sagan

Nobody listens to mathematicians.

Bertrand Russell

I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose.

Bertrand Russell

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he knows a thing exactly, then you can be safe in inferring that you are speaking to an inexact man.

Reggie Evans

That was all (garbage) because all them young guys, they play (center). I play (power forward). Do the math on that. That was just more (garbage).

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

William Shakespeare

I cannot do it without comp[u]ters.

William Booth

If any of them that come through the program are having trouble in math, I'll tutor them. (Teaching) is the most important thing I do.

David Krumholtz

What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and races and backgrounds and cultures.

David Graeber

What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.

Petrarch

From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world's well beaten ways.

Mike Zafirovski

We have a very tall mountain to climb.

Shannon Burns

We don't have mountains and aquariums and polished wood flooring,

Lindsay Lewis

I was relieved. We're all like 5-4, 5-5, so they're like mountains to us.

David Mitchell

...A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty...

Bryn Terfel

For the mountains shall depart

Alain Robert

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

Alan Alda

In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'

Al McGuire

There's no one who's dropped on top of the mountain. You've got to work your way to the top.