Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Evans

Do you remember the Platonic dialog in which Socrates argues the definition of wisdom with Hippocrates? As far as I'm concerned, Hippocrates was the first hippy, a guy who was smug because he thought he knew something. Socrates was wise because he realized how little he knew.

Sir Stringer

Sometimes we misunderstand each other, but after all, isn't that the definition of a marriage?

Bill Gross

Some people say farmers have always helped farmers, People say we're expanding the definition of neighbor.

Philip Mangano

The very definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.

Mark Drabenstott

These are the kinds of questions I see in play now. The definition of what's rural is much more complex.

Stephen Hess

This is a situation in which the vice president by definition is a shadow, ... He must move the way the president moves, he can't move independently and at this point he should move forcefully.

Henry Samueli

You're not going to see a wholesale switch over to all 4K by 2K. It will start with one, two, three, four channels, just like high definition (HD) when it was first introduced.

Art Spiegelman

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.

Grace Meng

I take the definition and title of my job - Representative - seriously. That's what I will be above and beyond everything else.

Bill Fisher

Originally we were playing most of our games sitting on our heels hoping not to make mistakes. Now the kids are really going after it, expecting to win. It's only been two games but now they know that they can go out and do the things it takes to win.

John Hughs

Oil is on everyone's mind. We're expecting a fall in inventories, but instead we get a rise,

Stacey Widlitz

The Street was hoping for positive comps in Japan, and also some investors were expecting same-store sales growth in the U.S. to be 10 percent or higher.

Robert Mattson

The Street is not expecting disappointment or glorious things but ho-hum results. Things are getting incrementally better.

Bob Hammond

The team is really focused and they are expecting a lot in the present, ... But as always, you just never know.

Kaydee Smith

After about 11 months we got pregnant for the first time, and unfortunately we had a miscarriage at three months and so about a year and nine months later we got the news that we were expecting quintuplets.

George Hodgson

After a 240-point fall on the Dow, people are expecting a bounce.

Bill Griffith

Sometimes when people read Zippy they're expecting it to fall into the same formula as some other comics. That's not what I do.

H. Hunt

Sometime in the middle of the summer, we are expecting we could be approaching critical-stage drought.

Dan Brown

There is a fine line between insanity and genius.

Alice Cooper

She didn't know that there was more of me, she'd have to learn to love all four of me.

Alice Cooper

Some maniac butcher is trying to hack away your balls.

Alice Cooper

Women on the streets want money when we meet. I take them for a little ride, chop, chop, chop.

Rita Mae Brown

Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

Scott Adams

I'm curious how you'll know it works. I assume it's mostly a cosmetic change.

Thomas Jefferson

The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only by being more unintelligible.

Stephen F. Lynch

I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.

Thomas Szasz

Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.