Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Rick James

I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground... Kind of sort of.

Virchand Gandhi

All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.

Woody Allen

Well, trouble's my middle name. Actually, my middle name is Marion, but I don't want you spreading that around.

Woody Allen

There's something about my films; they're informed by my sensibility. I have the same preoccupations, the same interests... there's just something in the nuance, and so you always know it's a film of mine whether I sign my name to it or not.

William Whewell

We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.]

William Wordsworth

Me this uncharted freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires, My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same.

William Shenstone

I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.

William Shatner

My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!

Walker Percy

Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life?

William Butler Yeats

Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude...

Robert Green Ingersoll

We have at last ascertained that miracles can be perfectly understood; that there is nothing mysterious about them; that they are simply transparent falsehoods.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.

Wendell Berry

We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.

Wendell Berry

It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.

Yoko Ono

Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.

Deborah Williams

I really didn't think we were going to get out of there alive. It really was a miracle from God.

Richard Risbrudt

I prayed for a miracle tonight and I got it.

Brian Vickers

I guess the NASCAR meetings haven't been enough for some people. I have no idea what he was thinking. That was one of the dumbest things I've seen. I hope I don't find him.

Mark E. Smith

If there were a hell for dumb decisions,

Bob Davies

It was probably one of the dumbest things I ever did, ... If I could undo it, I would.

Donald Yacktman

It's frustrating in the sense that we look dumber than we really are, ... We own a lot of unpopular but profitable stocks.

Joyce Thompson

I know of three ways to recognize another writer: Writers are shamelessly nosy. Writers tell good stories, even about dumb old, daily things. On most writers, the earmarks of thrift, if not outright povery, are evident.

John Lennon

I had a lot of it in my day, but I don't like it. It's a dumb drug. Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix. I find caffeine easier to deal with.

Justin Gray

It's just an emotional game. There's no hard feelings. I know I've done dumb things, too, in my time, things that hurt the team. You get frustrated. It's just part of the game.

Marty Roos

There were some good penalties and there were some dumb penalties.

Charles Dickens

Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.