Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ivar Giaever

While classical mechanics correctly predicts the behavior of large objects such as tennis balls, to predict the behavior of small objects such as electrons, we must use quantum mechanics.

Irving Harper

With a computer, there are too many choices, and I always liked working within limits. You know, if you look at Mozart, who had this strict classical framework - an allegro, an andante, a scherzo and a finale - you see that within that formula, he got results he might never have gotten if he had all the options in the world.

Ismail Kadare

For me as a writer, Albanian is simply an extraordinary means of expression - rich, malleable, adaptable. As I have said in my latest novel, 'Spiritus,' it has modalities that exist only in classical Greek, which puts one in touch with the mentality of antiquity.

Wynton Marsalis

Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

Richard Bellzon

The pen was his voice and the page his tears, when he was done; they called it a classic

Brittany Howard

It'll help you be imaginative if you listen to classical music. It helps you understand dynamics and how important they are to create an environment.

Beeban Kidron

I had a sort of classic moment when a friend of mine rang up and said she'd just been to a funeral, and in the middle of the eulogy, this kid had taken out the phone and had a whole proper text conversation - while everyone was weeping!

Mark Thielen

That was very successful. It drew a younger crowd, some of whom haven't seen the symphony before. People say classical music is dying out, but I don't think that's the case.

Ivar Giaever

When I was 28 years old, I found myself in Schenectady, New York, where I discovered that it was possible for some people to make a good living as physicists.

Ismail Kadare

I work only in the morning from 10 to noon. I still write by hand. I interrupt my writing when I feel that I've discovered something beautiful or, on the contrary, when I feel discontent.

Abraham Lincoln

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

Chris Crutcher

'Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school.

Dave Brubeck

When you start out with goals - mine were to play polytonally and polyrhythmically - you never exhaust that. I started doing that in the 1940s. It's still a challenge to discover what can be done with just those two elements.

Natalie Massenet

As much as I love to shop online, I also love walking the streets on a beautiful day and seeing what finds I can discover in a small shop or vintage store.

Felicity Kendal

I think in the acting world you either manage that transition to older roles, or you stick with what you've always done and then discover nobody can bear you doing it as an older person.

Carl Sagan

In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics, physics, some others-the great discoveries are almost entirely made by youngsters.

Carl Sagan

We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.

Andrew Carroll

It draws us into their story. There is that sense of mystery, of what was that person thinking and what happened to them.

Scott Patterson

Popstars really draws you in. It's fascinating. It's interesting to watch people thrown together in that kind of a situation. Even if the egos weren't involved and they weren't trying to be world famous. It's the Real World, only better.

Anthony Shadid

Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War.

Rod Thorn

He's a good shooter, he's a force down low and draws a lot of fouls. We feel he's a player who can play in our rotation and help us.

David McLane

What draws them to it is the lifestyle and the fun. Once they come out once, they'll enjoy it and come out again.

Rick Adelman

He has a quality about him that draws other guys into it -- the way they play, the effort they put on. He's always pushing. He's pushing the younger guys, saying, 'That's not good enough.' When a guy says that and then goes out on the floor and does it, it has an impact.

Glen Murray

He doesn't really shoot a lot. He can score, there's no question about it, but he likes to pass. He likes to hold on to the puck because he's so big and strong. He's so great with the puck that I just have to find the holes because he draws a lot of attention. He could score 40 or 50, but he likes to pass a lot more.

Tim McAfee

He draws a salary and does not work.

Jonathan Cheechoo

He draws a lot of double-teams, and he sees the ice so well. Basically, all you have to do is find a soft spot in the ice. He does a great job fighting off guys, and I just pick up the garbage in front of the net.

Gabriel Mann

But TV has changed completely. It's not until you come into people's homes that everyone says, 'You're a success now.'

Zaha Hadid

Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Many women now have to work as well as do everything at home and no one can do everything. Society needs to find a way of relieving women.

Zach Braff

That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.

Zac Efron

I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Polenta is one of those ingredients that in many homes spends its days at the back of the kitchen cupboard, on the 'no one knows quite what to do with it' shelf.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.

William E. Conway, Jr.

Until a person has a home, they are always going to be dependent upon the system.

William Stone

If you don't come home with data, you've done nothing.

Zubin Mehta

I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home.

Ashton Kutcher

In e-commerce, your prices have to be better because the consumer has to take a leap of faith in your product.

R. Robinson

We're going to see him take some leaps here.

Adam Burish

The promise was I was going to do a Lambeau Leap into the glass, but I got so wrapped up in the moment, I didn't know what I was doing out there.

Elizabeth Bowen

to leap is not only to leap, it is to hit the ground somewhere.

John Clarke

When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows

Remica Gray

It's a leap of faith. It seems like the right time in my life and the life of the community.

Oktay Varlier

The Turkish tourism sector performed extraordinarily in the two years 2004 and 2005... But in 2006, we won't see leaps like those we saw in those two years.

Dick Cook

This was a three-way leap of faith, frankly.

Shea Hillenbrand

It was tough at first. It was tough to go out there and trust what I was working on because it takes a leap of faith.

Yann Martel

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

Thomas a Kempis

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

Idina Menzel

'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

One of my first days shooting on 'Game of Thrones' was possibly the coldest day I've ever experienced in my life, and that sticks out especially because I'd never, ever done anything before.

Isobelle Carmody

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

Ismail Kadare

I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.

Gin Wigmore

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

Jane Seymour

When I was younger, I remember thinking, 'I have to pass this mark' or 'I have to get this role' or 'I have to do this or that' and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

Aristotle

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

Aristotle

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

J. T. Walsh

We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.

Paul Ricoeur

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking...

Mike Birbiglia

Life is unfair and improv is a great metaphor of that.

Florence King

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

Gaston Bachelard

The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.

Carl Sagan

The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star.

Bill Bryson

I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations.

Bill Bryson

I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I've never been before.

Bill Bryson

Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe.

Bill Bryson

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit...

Bill Bryson

I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.

Bill Bryson

Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Bill Vaughan

It is easiest to lose your way in the forest after it is cut.

Cliff Hite

I always tell the quarterback, we don't want you to make a big tackle, just get in his way, trip him, do whatever you have to do to get in his way.

John Bryan

I don't know many trips you can do for a whole week for $150.

Vic Tayback

Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.

Lauren German

I'm very klutzy. I've fallen off horses, I've tripped with my high-heeled boots over a stunt guy.

Caron Butler

Yeah, it was ugly, but we won. We'll take it, especially after the trip we just had.

Tim Adams

Our findings on this trip will be an important input,

Paddy Ashdown

It is my worst experience, my worst trip to the Balkans,

Ron Vanover

Every trip is unique; every trip has a story.

Colleen Nave

That's the first triple play I've ever seen. It was very exciting.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the old theologies, relieved from all gloomy apprehensions of the future, satisfied that as my labors and capacities were limited to this sphere of action, I was responsible for nothing beyond my horizon, as I could neither understand nor change the condition of the unknown world. Giving ourselves, then, no trouble about the future, let us make the most of the present, and fill up our lives with earnest work here.

Jon Burnham

The big unknown in this is the geopolitical situation,

John Gibbons

There a lot of unknowns on this team.

H. P. Lovecraft

Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied, thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities.

Patricia Marx

I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.

Gotye

I guess Surrealism has a draw for me because it's an unknown world. It's a world of subconscious. Some things you can't really get your hands on very easily. Things that are kind of nebulous and they feel like they're not completely formed. You have to feel your way through that.

John Boyne

It is possible, you know, to drift off to an unknown world and find happiness there. Maybe even more happiness than you've ever known before.

John Lennon

I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope.