Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Davies

I dont drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.

Bruce Dickinson

Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk.

Edmund Burke

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Damon Galgut

A journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it's made. You go from one place to another place, and on to somewhere else again, and already behind you there is no trace that you were ever there.

Adelbert von Chamisso

After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.

Debbie Ford

We must risk the journey to a higher ground where there is freedom from the gravitational pull of our stories, the pull that comes from years of trying to prove that the stories we tell ourselves, the ones we've made up, are the truth.

Donna Karan

My favorite journey is anywhere I haven't been

Dorothy Gilman

It's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves.

Dolly Parton

...everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different.

Rene Magritte

Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring.

Tom Hodgkinson

Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.

Tommy Chong

Boredom is a disease, too.

Susanna Kaysen

Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom.

Mason Cooley

Boredom is the only sure cure for neurosis.

Mason Cooley

Boredom makes me sleepy or restless.

Jim Harrison

I have closely noted that people who watch a great deal of TV never again seem able to adjust to the actual pace of life. The speed of the passing images becomes the speed the aspire to and they seem to develop an impatience and boredom with anything else.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires

Fernando Pessoa

My boredom with everything has numbed me.

Art Spiegelman

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.

Abraham Maslow

We cannot study creativeness in an ultimate sense until we realize that practically all the definitions that we have been using of creativeness are essentially male or masculine definitions of male or masculine products. We've left out of consideration almost entirely the creativeness of women.

Dweezil Zappa

The Silvertop and the Goldtop both had subtlety where it was needed but lots of definition as well. I liked the different voicings of the distortion/fuzz elements.

Deepak Chopra

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

Ally Sheedy

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

Andrew Wiles

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

Ravi Zacharias

Truth by definition excludes.

Esther Dyson

The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future.

Fay Weldon

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.