Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander McCall Smith

Do not take on a traditionally built person unless you are prepared for a heavyweight bout.

Muhammad Ali

Do you know why I’m the fastest heavyweight in the world? I’m the only heavyweight that trains underwater!

Gordon Brown

The next election will be a flyweight versus a heavyweight. However much the right hon. Gentleman (David Cameron) may dance around the ring beforehand, at some point, he will come within the reach of a big clunking fist.

Jerry Lawler

What the Hell. In 1988, I was the AWA heavyweight champion and I never came to Milwaukee.

Jim Bailey

Of all the great heavyweights of modern times, Joe Frazier was the unluckiest. He had to share an era with both Ali and Foreman.

Floyd Patterson

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.

Larry Holmes

Joe Louis was a good Heavyweight, good boxer but he was kind of in the same boat as Marciano, weighing about 190 to 200 lbs.

Lennox Lewis

I've worked hard and accomplished what I've accomplished in the heavyweight scene.

Lennox Lewis

I always ask myself why old heavyweights come back, but I plan to stay out of the ring.

Benoit Mandelbrot

I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.

Art Alexakis

The world's most effeminate heterosexual, Daniel Johns

Anthony Storr

Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as irrational but which are shared by millions are called world religions.

Bill Bryson

A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.

Bill Burton

There is a lightning quickness to the speed at which candidates can build and accidentally dismantle their own campaigns. If candidates don't figure out their place in the new digital world of politics, they will be destroyed by it.

Bill Burr

It's a whole new world as far as getting a show on the air. There's good things and bad things.

Bertrand Russell

We ought to look the world frankly in the face.

Bertrand Russell

One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence

David Quammen

The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning.

Hayao Miyazaki

I like underwater life.

John Green

I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.

Neil Simon

Baptists are only funny underwater.

Joan Didion

I wanted to be an oceanographer, actually. It's a way of going underwater. I've always been interested in how deep it was, you know.