Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andre Breton

It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!

Andre Gide

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

Andre Gide

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

Andy Williams

There's no doubt in my mind that people on the West Coast - L.A. particularly - and the East Coast have no clue at all about what's happening outside their own little bailiwick. And they think everybody is stupid because they are not sophisticated.

Anatole France

Unhappiness does make people look stupid.

Amanda Peet

If you're not willing to sound stupid you don't deserve to be in love.

Anne Frank

Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be; perhaps to behave differently from the way I want to behave or do behave.

Ann Aguirre

Men can be very stupid. We cease to value what we have until it's gone, and only then do we realize the gold we glimpsed in distant hills pales as dross compared to treasure we had in hand.

Ann Aguirre

I so enjoy it when people assume I'm stupid." "Not that, just very focused on killing.

Daniel Handler

For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Alfred Korzybski

Every language having a structure, by the very nature of language, reflects in its own structure that of the world as assumed by those who evolved the language. In other words, we read unconsciously into the world the structure of the language we use.

Alfred Korzybski

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Too much wit makes the world rotten.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

Alexander Alekhine

Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.

Aldo Leopold

In wildness is the salvation of the world,

Amy Carmichael

But God is the God of the waves and the billows, and they are still His when they come over us; and again and again we have proved that the overwhelming thing does not overwhelm. Once more by His interposition deliverance came. We were cast down, but not destroyed.

Mitch Albom

The length of your days does not belong to you.

Miguel de Cervantes

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Any astrophysicist does not feel small looking up at the universe; we feel large.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

So this show [Cosmos] does not only operate on you intellectually, because telling you stories of how science works and why it works and what was discovered and why it matters, but combines that with stunning visualizations of the cosmos. This has the chance of affecting you intellectually and emotionally, and as well as even spiritually, because the wonder and awe of the universe are especially potent when presented in this way."

Neil deGrasse Tyson

'Boldly going where hundreds have gone before' does not make headlines.

John Tillotson

Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing.

John Stott

God does not love us because Christ died for us; Christ died for us because God loved us.

John Steinbeck

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.