Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

Reductionism is a dirty word, and a kind of 'holistier than thou' self-righteousness has become fashionable.

Ronald Wright

Like most problems with technology, pollution is a problem of scale. The biosphere might have been able to tolerate our dirty old friends coal and oil if we burned them gradually, but how long can it withstand a blaze of consumption so frenzied that the dark size of this planet glows like a fanned ember in the night of space.

Raymond Chandler

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

Robin Wright

I just love getting dirty.

Van Jones

The disaster in the gulf shows: relying on dangerous, dirty fuels can at times impose incalculable costs. I have never heard of a wind farm collapsing and causing a massive wind-slick. I have never heard of a solar farm collapsing and leaving behind a catastrophic sun-spill.

Robert Louis Stevenson

If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!

Wally Schirra

Feeling weightless... it's so many things together. A feeling of pride, of healthy solitude, of dignified freedom from everything that's dirty, sticky. You feel exquisitely comfortable... and you feel you have so much energy, such an urge to do things, such an ability to do things. And you work well, yes, you think well, without sweat, without difficulty as if the biblical curse in the sweat of thy face and in sorrow no longer exists, As if you've been born again.

Walt Disney

When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, 'But why do you want to build an amusement park? They're so dirty.' I told her that was just the point--mine wouldn't be.

Vinod Khosla

The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty.

Jeanine Pirro

Today is about thanking them for what they're doing in advance, giving them the support they need to go through the school year.

Ryan Kwanten

One of my favorite actors is Paul Newman. He could tell so much with a single look, whereas some actors would need an entire five page monologue to give off the feeling of what he could say with just a single look.

Ryan Lochte

One thing I won't do: I won't give up on love.

Russell Baker

The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don't do it. I have been out there. It is a mess.

Tyler Hilton

Music comes out of me most naturally and would be the hardest to give up forever.

Tyler Oakley

If you are just yourself, that's when people start gravitating towards you because nobody else can be you except you. Be authentic, don't give up, and start today.

Tyler Perry

God gives everyone a lane and no one can beat you in your lane. Just stay focused on Him and what you are supposed to do. And everything will be alright.

Toyo Ito

I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.

Reinhold Niebuhr

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.

Rose Macaulay

The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.

Sarah Waters

It's a curious, wanting thing.

Sara Shepard

When someone covets something they desire and lust over it.Usually it's something they can't have. You've always had that problem...

William Blake

Exuberance is Beauty." "If a thing loves, it is infinite." "Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained." "The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.

Wendy Wright

There is not only a lack of success for condoms. It's worse than that - they are utter failures.

Salman Rushdie

What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust.

William Faulkner

Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down.

John Donne

Lust-bred diseases rot thee.

Louis de Bernieres

Love delayed is lust augmented.