Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lori Smith

We've seen a dramatic shift in the '80s and '90s and into this century with more political involvement by women, and I think that's a good thing.

David Dreier

We want the Y2K problem to be the last crisis of the 20th century and not the first crisis of the 21st century.

Charlton Heston

I don't seem to have a 20th century face

Billy Graham

History is full of surprises, and the next century will be no exception.

John Shelby Spong

The church is not going to survive if they are going to tell people that they have to twist their minds into 1st century pretzels.

M. Thompson

The TV is an out, an excuse for not having eye contact or for not having to come up with something interesting to say. Is it pathological? Yes. Is it sad? Yes. But pathology and sadness are part of 20th century American life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.

Stewart Schwartz

A century ago, developers thought about where the retail and services would go in relation to housing. That has to happen again.

Raila Odinga

It is unbelievable that in the 21st century this kind of thing can be happening. It is a complete reversal of the democratic gains Kenya has made in the last 15 years.

Terry Teachout

A play is not a play until it's performed, and unless it's a one-person play that is acted, directed and designed by the author, many other people will be deeply involved in the complicated process that leads to its performance.

Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights,even if you don't know what your rights are, or who the person is you're talking to. Then on the way out, slam the door. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

Mike Skelton

It was the opening three minutes that put us in too deep a hole.

Robert Morse

You're shut out. How would someone get in and help you?, ... It's all gated in. Once you get in deep here, I think it's too dangerous.

Rob Blake

Throughout the top four lines, I think we're very deep now.

David Bell

We are digging out from a deep pit,

Michael Franti

The more I see, the less I know.

Erin Gray

She was so huge for us. It is such a relief to have a deep squad. No matter who is there we know they can get the job done.

Larry Todd

She was not hurt. She stepped out, she took a deep breath, and now she is with her family,

John Pomfret

The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.

Sushil Koirala

This is not enough, the King has not addressed the minimum demands of the seven-parties alliance.

Ken Starr

There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.

Keith Tkachuk

He's a competitor, I'll tell you that much. He wants to win; he's been with the Rangers and he demands a lot.

Octavia Butler

I have the kind of mind that demands that I work things out, to see how they would really work if they were real. I have to be able to do that.

Mary Wollstonecraft

I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

Justin Vernon

The way I see it is that I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict. I was always encouraged to be a free-thinking individual. I spent the first five years out of high school trying to make it work in Eau Claire, then I had to leave because there wasn't enough going on in town.

Dale Carnegie

Encouragement makes a fault easy to correct, and a challenge easy to take on.

Albert Ellis

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

Robert H. Schuller

Tough times never last, but tough people do. You might add, "You're tougher than you give yourself credit for."

Sri Chinmoy

Our goal is not to have A problem-free life. But to conquer all the problems As they appear Along our life-road.

John Owen

He works in us and with us, not against us or without us; so that his assistance is an encouragement to the facilitating of the work, and no occasion of neglect as to the work itself.

Maya Angelou

My encouragement to you is to go tomorrow to the library.

John McKay

Only youngsters may hunt this day and it is a week before the season opens for all other waterfowl hunters, so young people should have a really good hunting experience. I would really encourage parents and other adults to get young hunters into the field that day to enjoy a day of hunting.

Adrian Leppard

I am very encouraged by the response from members of the public.

John Davis

Our experience has been very, very good. They are very comfortable, one doesn't think that they will be. They ride well ... we've had very little problem with them.

S. Walker

Now I've got so much more experience and I feel way more confident.

Jeff Lacy

Sometimes you need a loss to win. I think it could be a good learning experience for me. Joe is a great champion. I shot for the No. 1 guy in the division. Maybe someday we can do it again.

Joe Kasper

This is going to be my last year. I hope to get a little experience in the field.

Scott Egan

You go through that every year when you're as small a school as we are. You try to give kids some experience every year so you don't fall somewhere down the line.

Kevin Spacey

There's no doubt that some of the greatest films ever made have come from the theater. It's all a matter of finding a way to make the theater experience watchable on film.

Zoe Sugg

I know just how isolating it can feel to experience severe anxiety.

Serj Tankian

It's the idea of a multi-sensory experience stemming from music that opened my interest into painting, to be honest.

T. S. Eliot

There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.

M. Wolfe

Do you own your history, or does someone else own your history? ... There's the play that you're telling, and then there's the play that's underneath that.

Rich Brooks

That (the 9-1 mark) doesn't mean anything this week. The history of the series is something people need to write stories about or talk about (on the radio). It doesn't really have anything to do with the game.

Eugene Levy

I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it.

Javier Aguirre

This team knows that they are part of history but it also knows that they have done nothing yet.

Amir Salem

This verdict will go into the dustbin of history.

Margaret Chan

When is the next time? We don't have a time frame. I suspect it will likely to be November, if history is anything to go by.

Walter Raleigh

Let valour end my life!

Jeremy Mylymok

There's going to be a nastiness to this series, I'll tell you right now. These two teams don't like each other. There's a lot of different players, but there's still history between the organizations from two years ago.

Dick Bove

The timing of the 'give-away' of the retail units was possibly one of the worst in the history of American business.

John Ernst

We want to find places that are interested in music.

Giacinto Facchetti

We are interested in his signature, yet we will only talk about it next June,

Steve Langdon

He tried, and tried, but they weren't interested and weren't listening.

Brian Levy

He's not writing a check. But I don't think he's interested in a one-year deal. He wants to know where he's going to be for years to come.

National League

I can see how an organization could be interested by his personality and his passion, especially if they want to send a message to their players,

Ron Hilliard

He should have a big year. He's been rated by Dennis McCarty as one of the top linemen in the state. Michigan State, Penn State and Rutgers are very interested in Dan.

Dan Hicks

I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.

Lynda Carter

I don't know that the people that are doing Wonder Woman are too interested in my point of view,

Rodel Natividad

I'm interested in the minds of the mature and inspired.

Michelle Obama

Be passionate about something and lean to that strength.

Tom Cruise

I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.

Ron Cowen

I don't share your optimism. We can talk about this for 19 hours, because I get pretty passionate about it.

Kris Benson

He was very passionate about anything that he did.

Jean Paul Gaultier

All of my life shown me that if you wanted something enough, if you were passionate enough, it would happen.

Jeanne Calment

I'm interested in everthing but passionate about nothing.

Gary Newman

A lot comes down to how passionate Mitch is to keep it going.

Peter Zumthor

I’m a passionate architect... I do not work for money

Bertrand Russell

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

Edward Young

Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

Aristotle

A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.

Aristotle

For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater is quicker than that of the less, just as the downward movement of a mass of gold or lead, or of any other body endowed with weight, is quicker in proportion to its size.

Seth MacFarlane

Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment.

Stephen Jay Gould

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.

Albert Einstein

Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.

Albert Einstein

The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.

Albert Einstein

Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may become injurious for the individual and for the community.