Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Giraudoux

Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

Lynne Truss

Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.

Ron Perlman

That's always been Guillermo's preference, is to have as much there practically as is humanly possible, and that digital graphic images are more a punctuation mark than they are a replacement.

Lawrence Jackson

We take detours to get to the same spot.

Bill Watterson

You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.

Bill Watterson

The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.

Peter Milligan

'The Names' is planned as a nine-part series. I have a kind of road map: I know the final scene of episode nine. But as to exactly how we get there, what detours or horrible accidents we might have to pass through, I like to keep that a little fluid.

Nora Roberts

There are no dead ends, just detours.

Scott Martin

It's a real inconvenience. The detours are annoying, but they're not terrible to live with.

Matthew McConaughey

I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day's schedule and be ready for any off-road detour.

Paulo Coelho

We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination

John Howard

The cross is not a detour or a hurdle on the way to the kingdom, nor is it even the way to the kingdom; it is the kingdom come.

Antoine Lavoisier

Languages are true analytical methods.

Bertrand Russell

We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.

Shaun Rinier

We just went through some of our unresolved language items. I think we got most of them resolved. We're going to work on it a little more (today).

Stan Freberg

Will you let me talk? I'll have to learn the language all over again!

Jose Contreras

We get to talk because we speak the same language,

William Shakespeare

Ay, is it not a language I speak?

J. R. R. Tolkien

I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

Marty Schottenheimer

I think so, because of the language that had to be learned and understood. The last thing you get is the technique because the language you can put together. But to be able to put the fundamentals together at the speed necessary to be successful takes some time. You can't have a lot of thought going through your mind.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assembler anymore.