Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.

Charles Dickens

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

Alan Arkin

But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things.

Alan Alda

Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries

Chogyam Trungpa

The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim the goodness and dignity of human life, without either hesitation or arrogance. Then magic can descend onto our existence.

Edward Jenner

While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities [smallpox], blended with the fond hope of enjoying independence and domestic peace and happiness, was often so excessive that, in pursuing my favourite subject among the meadows, I have sometimes found myself in a kind of reverie.

David Hume

No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason and capacity.

Audrey Tautou

I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries.

Deborah Harkness

It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.

Charles Stanley

People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.

Alan Perlis

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

Alan Moore

It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.

Alan Moore

A lot of people have found the idea of living your life over and over again absolutely terrifying; there's some people that find it very comforting. There are others that are appalled by it.

Alan Moore

Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice.

Alan Moore

There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

Alan Moore

Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.

Al Neuharth

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Akon

My ideas come when I least expect it, so I've always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere.

Ruben Diaz

They don't actually show the (sexual assault). They show where he was leading her off into the hallways ? as she said he was doing.

Verle Valentine

It's the second leading reason people miss work.

Al Leiter

It's a very big mental game, all day leading up to warm-ups. You're not sure if your curveball will break, or will you be able to throw it over the plate? It's all negative thoughts going into the game.

Patricia Clarkson

I've always wanted to be leading lady/character actress.

Kim Il

The Western media wonder why I am leading a reclusive life,

Klaus Steinbach

We have proved our leading position in the world.

Lawrence Lindsey

We have rising real incomes for households, leading to rising real consumption. That looks unlikely to be disrupted,

Theodor Mommsen

Under the Julian and Claudian emperors, the Parthians seem to have been the leading power at the mouth of the Indus.

Michael Dell

and we are a leading seller of servers, storage systems and other technology products and services.

Edward Lear

Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akhond of Swat?

Betty Friedan

I love newspapers. I've worked on newspapers, all my life. I've always loved it.

Bill Gates

Convert bad news to good news.

Bob Schieffer

Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.

Chandra Levy

abused by the typhoon of the news media.

Joey Skaggs

They don't want the public to question their credibility as an investigative news source.

Bryan Robson

It's very disappointing news because everything was agreed,

Stephen Kay

It's obvious Al-Jazeera is probably not the most objective news organization.

Bryan Colangelo

It's not the news we wanted to hear,

Bill Clinton

A lot of places can be the wrong place at the wrong time

Linda Jeffers

They are sending us to places that we know not of. Who do we know in Kansas?

Brent Heavner

(This) places us consistently within the top 20 programs in the nation.

Chan Gailey

I told the team there's a lot worse places to go than San Francisco. It's historical. It's something they'll remember the rest of their lives.

Mark Kruea

There just aren't that many places that we can stop providing service.

Diane von Furstenberg

Bali and the Aman resorts are all very luxurious, great places to go.

Dhani Jones

Turks and Caicos is one of my favorite places to go. I've been to some really cool places and it started out when I was young by wanting to go to different places.

Jonathan Swift

Proper words in proper places make the true definiton of style.

Chris Jones

The theater now is in more places than we thought.

Alan Mollohan

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

S. Hughes

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....

Carl Andre

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

Bill Goldberg

Aside from doing publicity for this film [The Longest Yard], I have Auto Maniac coming on the History Channel and since I got married recently, we are going to get to that Honeymoon we had to put off.

Bill Gates

It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.

Bob Schieffer

Good policy always trumps bad public relations. And the best PR can't trump bad policy.

Don Powell

It's not public works. It's not water, sewage or utilities. It's the soul of our life.

Victor Mendez

It's not just the workers. It's the traveling public we're also worried about.