Famous Quotes & Sayings

Romola Garai

I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

William Gibson

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

Robert Reed

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

Sarah Zettel

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

Sarah McLachlan

Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.

Warren Ellis

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

Virginia Woolf

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

Virginia Woolf

The truer the facts the better the fiction.

Walker Percy

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.

Bertrand Russell

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power

Richard P. Feynman

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

William Whewell

According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and acts are attributes of which he is the subject. The mind is the subject in which ideas inhere. Moreover, the man's faculties and acts are employed upon external objects; and from objects all his sensations arise. Hence the part of a man's knowledge which belongs to his own mind, is subjective: that which flows in upon him from the world external to him, is objective.

Samuel Smiles

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

Richard Francis Burton

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

Samuel Johnson

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.

Salvador Dali

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

Robert Southey

Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength.

Joe Harsel

Historically, this sort of retirement living has been limited to the wealthiest in a community. The way that we do it makes it within the reach of that retired schoolteacher.

Wendell Perkins

I'm not worried about earnings, but there may be a limited upside for the market because of where valuations are.

Zach Duke

I just had an aggravated spot and it's kind of limited my mobility more than I expected,

Terrence Holt

That's a big loss. He's a Pro Bowler, ... I think that limited them.

Becky Richardson

It's been frustrating because there is limited play right now, which is when it starts warming up and people want to play.

Marc Ganis

They are limited in the means by which they can spend money.

Leon Krier

Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.

Bryan Pierce

It's typically not a 'no development' program, it's really a limited development program.

Rick Owens

It's not like I planned on producing it - but I would like it if someone wanted to do a limited edition,

Richard P. Feynman

If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives.

Richard P. Feynman

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

Richard P. Feynman

Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory.

Richard P. Feynman

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

Richard P. Feynman

The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination in a straightjacket, which is this: that it has to agree with the known laws of physics. ... It requires imagination to think of what's possible, and then it requires an analysis back, checking to see whether it fits, whether its allowed, according to what's known, okay?

Richard P. Feynman

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.

Richard P. Feynman

It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics.

Richard P. Feynman

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Richard P. Feynman

Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.

Richelle Mead

I’m sorry ma’am,” I said. Really, I had no idea what else to say. I’d spent the weekend caught up in an epic battle to save humanity, and now… jean shorts?

Richelle Mead

Adrian looked away from me and down to where my hand covered his. I blushed and pulled away. “Sorry” I’d probably freaked him out

Richelle Mead

That's smart. Once Sonya's able to talk, we'll need to move." He smiled. "Sydney's turning into a battle mastermind." "Hey, she's not in charge here," I teased. "She's just a soldier." "Right." He lightly brushed his fingers against my cheek. "Sorry, Captain." "General," I corrected, catching my breath at that brief touch.

Tyler Perry

I think, you know, the people that have seen my work, I think it speaks to the possibility of getting better, and, I'm sorry, I'm still on the last caller.

Troye Sivan

I'm the type of person who listens to like sad music when I'm sad to feel sadder, and to feel sorry for myself.

Rick Riordan

Hermes rolled his eyes. "Surely you've seen network TV lately. It's clear they don't know whether they're coming or going. That's because Janus is in charge of programming. He loves ordering new shows and cancelling them after two episodes. God of beginnings and endings, after all. Anyway, I was bringing him some magic doormats, and I was double-parked-" "You have to worry about double-parking?" "Will you let me tell the story?" "Sorry.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

You get older and you are a whole mess of things, new thoughts, sorry feelings, big plans, enormous doubts, goling along hoping and getting disappointed, over and over again, no wonder I don't recognize my little crayon picture. It appears to be me and it is and it is not.

Wayne Dyer

You can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift...You get to choose

Vash Young

Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.

Scott Faieta

I talked with the contractor, who is still optimistic.

Mario Theissen

I talked to him (Ralf) on Friday, he was very positive, he wants to get back in the car.

Curtis Martin

I talked to him a lot. I showed him around. I showed him where he would probably want to live. I told him he could have my place if he wanted it. I told him I'd do whatever it took to get him here.

Ginalyn Ofamin

I talked to her yesterday, and she is doing better.

Tom Oswald

I talked to her about things like how to take notes. We weren't flirting, though. At the time, I didn't know she was going through a divorce.

William Farmer

I think it'll be ok; I think by the end of this year, we won't be talking about PeopleSoft at all.

Beth Combs

It can't be about wins and losses. We've talked about it's not where you start, it's where you finish.

Willie Randolph

He wants to be the best. We've talked a lot about his approach.

Kevin Garnett

He just talked to me briefly, and I could tell right away that we were going to get along.