Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. G. Wells

Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like the sea urchin and starfish and empty shells and lumps of stinging jelly upon the sands here after a tide. A tidal wave out of Egypt. And it has left a multitude of little wriggling theologians and confessors and apologists hopping and burrowing in the warm nutritious sand. But in the hearts of living men, what remains of it now? Doubtful scraps of Arianism. Phrases. Sentiments. Habits.

Grace Kelly

I love walking in the woods, on the trails, along the beaches. I love being part of nature. I love walking alone. It is therapy. One needs to be alone, to recharge one's batteries.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity.

Charles Hall

I am very happy with the way things are going. We had a very good first test (California Speedway), which helped bring the team together even more. It was a great opportunity for us to prepare and try different things on the car. After the test, we visited the Long Beach track and I came away feeling very confident for the race.

Dusty Baker

He's got a good tempo, good rhythm going, great control, great movement. When things are going good, you don't worry about why they're going good -- you just keep on going good. It's like surfing -- you ride it to the beach instead of worrying about when you're going to fall off.

Mike Cohen

He's interfering with our elections. Ken Weiss is trying to impose his will on St. Pete Beach even though he's not a resident here.

Susanne Truitt

I came back to finish my (college) degree and then I met my husband here. There's something about the beach that brings everybody back.

Hunter S. Thompson

I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.

Hunter S. Thompson

My first feeling was a wild desire to drive a stake in the sand and claim the place for myself. The beach was white as salt, and cut off from the world by a ring of steep hills that faced the sea. We were on the edge of a large bay and the water was that clear, turquoise color that you get with a white sand bottom. I had never seen such a place. I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again.

Charles Bukowski

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Aleister Crowley

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.

Alberto Moravia

When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.

Alberto Manguel

Life happened because I turned the pages.

Albert Einstein

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

Albert Einstein

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

Albert Einstein

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

Albert Einstein

I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

Albert Einstein

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.