Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Feather

Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation.

Russell Baker

The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.

Rodney Carrington

If I do the same act that I did in 1995, in essence you're saying (in a robotic voice), 'My mind has never changed'

Rod Serling

I would guess that the price of the script really is secondary. The credit is much more the essence.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

William Arthur Ward

The essence of life is to care. The beauty of life is to give.

William Hazlitt

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

Wyclef Jean

No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me is hip-hop. But the hip-hop community I came up in isn't a loyal community.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Melody is the essence of music.

Jeff Capell

Jamal can do that. He can score points in bunches.

Andrew Kohut

His ratings for being trustworthy, which were his strong point for all of his first term, have tumbled rather substantially this year.

Rich Baccellieri

I think (the point spread) would go to 3 before it went up to 4. But I think it's pretty solid at 3 1/2.

M. Thompson

I thought she was going to make a four- point difference. Turned out, it was five.

Kobe Bryant

He has been solid for us all year. Now he's putting points on the board, which is very popular with the people.

Jeremy Miller

He has the right to go to trial, but it would be a moot point by the time he did, because his shares will be gone.

William Golding

For a small island, the place is remarkably diverse. Writers tend to see things from their own points of view, looking in one direction very much.

Tom Schatz

Our point is simple. These projects were wasteful before, and they only seem more wasteful because we have a real emergency,

Mike Conner

I probably should play him more. He's averaging two points every 30 seconds he's in there.

Sam Wyche

I was in serious cabin-fever trouble being out of football,

Paul Busse

It can be taken as seriously as you want or as whimsically as you want.

Debra Brown

Had he been in the vehicle, he would have been seriously injured.

Michael Ballack

I am in serious negotiations with Chelsea. Nothing is signed yet, but I know what I want.

Harvey Korman

Funny is when you're serious.

Jim Gillespie

We're not going to be taken seriously if we speak or we may not have a voice at all,

Jean Fernandez

We still do not know if it's serious but he already had a strain in the same calf.

James Dolan

Everybody's gossiping about it, but no one sounds serious about buying.

Peter Hain

It's very serious and I don't want to speculate on who was responsible,

Steve Earle

My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that.

Anton LaVey

ALL religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing more than his carnal brain. Just because he has an ego, and cannot accept it, he has to externalize it into some great spiritual device which he calls God.

Rob Zombie

I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.

Richard Pousette-Dart

I strive to express the spiritual nature of the universe.

Richard P. Feynman

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty

William Jennings Bryan

Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?

Vinoba Bhave

All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.

Woodrow Wilson

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

William J. Clinton

We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled with awe and joy at what lies over the horizon. And we should be filled with absolute determination to make the most of it.

Rob Zombie

When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

Richard P. Feynman

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

Richard Whately

Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term.

Truman Capote

Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.

Trisha Goddard

I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.

Virginia Woolf

Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.

Viola Spolin

It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it is in the increasing of the individual capacity for experiencing that the untold potentiality of a personality can be evoked.

William Westmoreland

We have reached an important point when the end begins to come into view.