Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Mapother

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

Robert McAfee Brown

To quarrel with God is to pay God the supreme compliment: it is to take God seriously. It is to say that God matters enough to be worth some anger. To be indifferent to God is to pay God the supreme insult. It is to say that nothing of consequence is at stake.

Paul Scheuring

Before I even put pen to paper, in any sense, I'm like, "What's the coolest MacGuffin you can come up with? What are the last frames of this series?" The secret that's behind this entire thing is to be as evocative, original, thought-provoking and timely.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Elie Wiesel

One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.

Doris Lessing

The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.

Spike Lee

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

Max McKeown

Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.

Richard D. James

A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.

Lord Shaftesbury

As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.

Robert Collier

We have become so accustomed to hearing everyone claim that his product is the best in the world, or the cheapest, that we take all such statements with a grain of salt.

Rob Thurman

We all have our security blankets in this world. Some are just sharper than others.

Rob Sheffield

'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world.

Richard P. Feynman

Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.

Richard Dawkins

Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.

Richard Dawkins

Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.

Richard Wright

Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world, I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.

John C. Maxwell

To grow yourself, you must know yourself.

Patrick Ness

Know yourself and go in swinging.

Pablo Picasso

I am only a public entertainer who understands his time.

Tatiana Maslany

Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.

Peter Farrelly

Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself.

Erik Erikson

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

Auguste Comte

Know yourself to improve yourself.

Tennessee Ernie Ford

Know yourself -- and know your audience.