Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Marquis

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

Carl Maria von Weber

No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!

Bethenny Frankel

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

Bernard Berenson

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.

Arnold Schoenberg

The principal function of form is to advance our understanding. It is the organization of a piece which helps the listener to keep the idea in mind, to follow its development, its growth, its elaboration, its fate.

Bertrand Russell

A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if he allows himself to be petty, self-seeking, troubled by trivial misfortunes, dreading what fate may have in store for him. The man capable of greatness of soul will open wide the windows of his mind, letting the winds blow freely upon it from every portion of the universe.

William Shakespeare

He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.

Octavio Paz

To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.

Richard Brodhead

It has seemed premature to announce, and especially while indictments are still not only out but where there might be more coming, ... what the fate of the team will be. Of course, this is a matter that will be given the gravest consideration at the appropriate time.

Al Ries

Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory

Billie Joe Armstrong

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.

Breyten Breytenbach

Even ivory towers need central heating.

Alberto Manguel

It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory tower developed. Now there's still this idea that the reader doesn't take part in the social game and in politics, the res publica, but for other reasons: he doesn't do it because he's not making any money.

Anthony Hopkins

It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good.

Chuck Jones

I'm not a believer in putting designers off in an ivory tower. They need to have a voice at the table so they can identify where and why design can make a difference. We also need to understand the business issues. If we don't make our numbers this quarter, we don't earn the right to do something cool the next time.

Christopher Paolini

He tapped one of the ivory spikes between his legs and said, 'There be as good a way to lose your manhood as ever I've seen'.

C. S. Lewis

Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.

Ellen Key

When psychical phenomena have been as much investigated as physical, love will also receive its cumatology - that is, its science of waves. We shall follow the curves of the emotions through the ages, their movement of rise and fall, the oppositions and side-influences by which they have been determined.

Carrie Underwood

You never know what curve balls life is going to throw you and there's no way I can predict anything or make any assumptions about what the rest of my life is going to be like.

Rob Babcock

We've got some good young kids and it depends on their learning curves and how quickly they develop.

Djuna Barnes

The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.

Camilla Luddington

I definitely have curves. I dont intend on losing them.

Alan Kay

There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.

Bill Maher

I love trains. It's the only way to travel anymore where it doesn't involve a TSA agent slowly tracing the curve of my inner thigh.

Benjamin Hoff

Without difficulties, life would be like a stream without rocks and curves – about as interesting as concrete. Without problems, there can be no personal growth, no group achievement, no progress of humanity. But what mattes about problems is what one does with them.

Chaske Spencer

Where I come from, there were traditions with my race and whenever you faced a curve in life, there was always a tradition.