Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Sanderson

For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me. Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy.

Auguste Rodin

The more simple we are, the more complete we become.

Dennis Ritchie

Unix is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate the simplicity..

Arizona Muse

I'm lucky with my skin - it doesn't require a lot of attention, so I keep things simple. And I drink a lot of water.

Charles Bukowski

Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.

Charles Bukowski

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

Dave Morin

Simple and intuitive design is what inspires and drives me.

Albert Einstein

The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can’t grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.

Albert Einstein

My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

John Sullivan

You smile with just the mere mention of his name.

Antisthenes

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

Barbara Jordan

Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Baruch Spinoza

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.

Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Arthur Koestler

Most of us were not afraid of death, only of the act of dying; and there were times when we overcame even this fear. At such moments we were free-men without shadows, dismissed from the ranks of the mortal; it was the most complete experience of freedom that can be granted a man.

Arthur Koestler

Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of comprehension of the forces which make it work- of the principles which relate his gadgets to the forces of nature, to the universal order. It is not central heating which makes his existence 'unnatural,' but his refusal to take an interest in the principles behind it. By being entirely dependent on science, yet closing his mind to it, he leads the life of an urban barbarian.

Daniel Handler

The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.

Charles Evers

I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.

Alec Baldwin

If Obama was white, he’d be up by 17 points.

Doug E. Fresh

Scientology is not a White religion. It is not just for White people

William Shakespeare

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

Ta-Nehisi Coates

To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

Ronald Reagan

The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya)

Sherman Alexie

I know a lot about being white - because I have to, I live in the white world. A white person doesn't live in the Indian world. I have to be white every day.

Matt Tong

I'm not excited when bands strip things down. I'm not excited by the White Stripes.