Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

David H. Murdock

Exercise your brain and body, keep engaged with work and friends, and feed your brain with a healthy, plant-based diet - as well as knowledge.

Woody Harrelson

Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, 'Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people, maybe we could dilute it down and spray it on our crops to deal with pests.'

Carl Sagan

The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 10 14 neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness.

Antoine Rivarol

It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads, but no brains.

William Gladstone

The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.

Jeremy Foley

That way when it's time to hit the ground once the season is over, you're already off and running. The timing is never ideal in a coaching change. I talked to former coaches, NFL GMs, television folks. I picked people's brains and checked out the Internet to find out as much as I could. Indiana has time to do that. I didn't talk to any school or coaches but did hire a consultant to gauge the interest for us.

Olivia Thirlby

To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it.

Rick Wakeman

I've got an overactive brain. I enjoy work, I enjoy life, and I'm not good at relaxing. I've also never slept very much due to this overactive imagination and my brain constantly thinking.

Thor Heyerdahl

Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be.

Billy Graham

Only the supernatural love of God through changed lives can solve the problems that we face in our world.

Christian Bale

'The Machinist' changed me. I learned that I really enjoy, literally, not saying a damned word for days at a time, except for what was in the scene. Whole days of... nothing. Just... standing still. I know a lot of people found it bizarre, because they'd be standing right next to me thinking, 'Why aren't we talking? What's going on?'

Mitch McConnell

The politics of tobacco have changed, and changed dramatically for the worse for our tobacco farmers," ()

Brad Coker

The overall leads and sizes of the leads haven't changed all that much, which tells me that, other than real-interested, more-tuned-in voters, the large majority of voters haven't paid all that much attention.

Andrew Gibson

The outsourcing model has changed pretty profoundly over the last three years. Outsourcing today is now viewed in a far more strategic light.

Brooke Smith

My child has changed things for me. Lately, I really wish there were greater roles for women. I think I see it in a different way now. I look at my little girl and I don't want her to think that all she has to be is pretty and quiet.

Bee Wilson

I appreciate recipes that tell you what can be changed and what must remain fixed. 'The Zuni Cafe Cookbook' by the late Judy Rodgers is superb at this.

Bruce Jackson

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

Yahya Jammeh

If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.

Ian Mcewan

The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.

Gwen Moore

It is important for women to have a choice, to have an opportunity to plan their families, because if they don't, the Republicans have said this is an ownership society. You are on your own, and they're going to begrudge that child everything, from WIC to a Pell Grant to health insurance.

Gail Carson Levine

If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.

Giles Foden

I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio transmitters.

Zadie Smith

People with children will know this: when the childcare is over, it's over on the dot. You immediately have to go into child mode; there's no down time.

Vince Vaughn

I love Snoop. I worked with him on 'Old School,' and he's very accessible. He's very kind. He's always nice to everyone, to the crew. He's always got something positive to say. He's very childlike and loves to come and play. So, I had fun working with him.

Vanessa Paradis

My children are grown now, they are more independent.

Chuck Palahniuk

One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they're able to revisit their own developmental stages and recognise themselves and undo a lot of things they decided.

Yahya Jammeh

If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.

Ian Mcewan

The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.

Vanessa Paradis

My children are grown now, they are more independent.

Chuck Palahniuk

One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they're able to revisit their own developmental stages and recognise themselves and undo a lot of things they decided.

Billy Graham

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

Billy Graham

I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I'm sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.

Zubin Mehta

You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!

Ellen G. White

I see in Jesus matchless charms. I see in Him everything to be desired by the children of men.

Esther Rolle

I don't play Hollywood maids, the hee-hee kind of people who are so in love with their madam's children they have no time for their own.

Chino Moreno

I've always had a deep passion for a lot of early electronic and sampled music.

Lloyd Coker

The peak outages hit between midnight Saturday and early Sunday morning.

Brenda Russell

I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually looking for something from you with your character.

David Carson

I did an early version of my site where it was virtually impossible to get through it, just as a statement about the web. But after a few laughs and some angry e-mails, I realized it wasn't doing me much good. I think the web has become more about the final product, not what it takes to get to it.

David Bradford

That was a terrible thing he did in his early 20s and he's been very upfront that he's made some serious mistakes,

Mack Brown

That was a killer. It was early enough in the game that it shouldn't have been so big.

Jane Soepardi

We have already made a plan to hold another round early next year, maybe at the end of January or early February.

Rob Keck

We need to hook them on hunting at an early age, so they become appreciative of the hunting tradition. This will also increase hunter retention and ensure the future of conservation remains strong.

Ron Wilson

We just didn't have the energy level we needed to do the job and it was pretty obvious early on. The only thing I was hoping for was their energy level would sink because it was their third game in four nights, too.

C. S. Lewis

If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.

Scott Stapp

I just hope it grows into where it was before because I want my son to see it. I want him to have a positive memory of it going forward, so he can be proud of his daddy.

Martin Winterkorn

VW grows with the challenges. We continue to do, even when times are tough.

Heber J. Grant

As a man grows and increases in the things of this world, if he is not careful, he will lose the Spirit of the Lord, and he will set his heart upon the things of this world.

William Cox

From what I've seen, it works pretty well. It maintains hair and probably grows some hair back.

Ken Hitchcock

He's a really smart player who kind of grows on you. He's always in the right place at the right time and he's solid everywhere.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.

David Hobson

To boldly grow where no one has groan before.

Bear Grylls

As a society, we've become terrified of failure, but you can't grow without risking it.

Bat for Lashes

In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

Raymond Kelly

You have multiple intelligence agencies. They all ultimately report to the director of national intelligence but, you know, it never comes in neat packages. So you have to make judgments on what you have, and it's not easy to do.

William Shakespeare

That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.

Nolberto Solano

We have to play with intelligence and try to stop them getting the ball,

Brad Smith

We are putting our most valuable intellectual property on the table.

Richard Durbin

For the president to suggest he had the same intelligence we had is just plain wrong,

Mark Turgeon

He had a tough night at Southern; it's as simple as that. He didn't play with the intelligence he usually plays with.

James Woolsey

had to do with coordination of intelligence in the United States.

Charles Simmons

It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless.

Brad Smith

We are putting our most valuable intellectual property on the table.

Kazi Shams

To be strong is to have passion, and to have passion is to believe.

Stephen Hadley

an issue of our intelligence, and obviously we need to do a better job of our intelligence.

Irene Peter

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

Daniel Ortega

His intelligence. He?s skillful and he?s very, very intelligent. He always just makes that right play.

Jim DeRogatis

Some say that's a weakness. I say it's a strength, a sign of intelligence.

William Dembski

without speculating about the nature of the intelligence.

Scott Becker

It's a totally intellectual response to something so physical.

Isamu Akasaki

In the late 1960s, red and the low green LEDs and the infrared semiconductor lasers had already been developed, but there was no prospect of practical blue light emitters, even in the '70s.

Naji Sabri

the outstanding problems which were left on the Iran-Iraq ware of the 1980s and later on.

F. Sionil Jose

Professional societies are sooner or later fractured by the ego of their leaders. Everyone wants to be president, chairman, CEO; no one wants to be a mere follower.

Bryan Kelly

That was huge. It really deflates a team when you score late in the half.

Dave Thompson

We wanted to have this done already. Better late then never.

Paul McManus

We have been working on that a lot lately in practice.

Al Gillen

Users say their movement to Microsoft's latest operating systems will proceed on their schedule, not on Microsoft's schedule.

William Shakespeare

to early seen unknown...and known to late

John Travolta

I would love to do that, ... We're planning on doing that in the near future, perhaps later this year.

Cecelia Ahern

at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.

Bernard Arnault

What we do in our group is the opposite of the bad effects of globalization. We produce in Italy and in France and we sell to China, when usually it's the opposite.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

Emma Thompson

Having reached 40 this year, if they were going to find someone to play opposite me they'd have to exhume him.

Rick Masi

We talked about when we had the wind at our right back, we wanted to use it to play it up and over into the opposite wing.

Don Bluth

In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren't computer people, and the computer people usually aren't the artistic people, so they always stand on opposite sides of the line.

David Sedaris

Every so often my life will feel like a story. It doesn't have to be a big thing; in fact, most often, it's just the opposite.

David R. Brower

People have alleged that I have inspired many young people over the years, but I say, it was just the opposite.

Bryan Callen

Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason.

Carl Cohn

The pattern that you will find in the people I appoint is they have extraordinary people skills,

John Mitchell

I suspect it's a pattern you will see here.

Jonathan Day

It comes down to what the rainfall patterns are,

James Montier

Venezuela has historically a pattern of stabilization plans that then fail,

David Mitchell

The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.

Bertrand Russell

Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

Bill Hicks

Billy Ray Cyrus does not smoke. Michael Bolton doesn't...Paula Abdul doesn't...there does seem to be a pattern.

Bruce Lee

The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Ashleigh Brilliant

My life shows a clear pattern of total unpredictability.

Yael Stone

I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.

Walead Beshty

There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.

Brina Palencia

I had a very close relationship with my grandmother. She actually helped raise me.

David Steinberg

Your relationship with an agent has got to be mutually beneficial. If you can't help their careers, then they're not going to be interested.

Carrie Fisher

The message about sex and relationships that she had gotten as a child... was confused, contradictory. Sex was for men, and marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.

Carl Reiner

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important.

Carl Rogers

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

Bette Davis

Yes, burn your bridges.

Anthony Storr

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.

Melvin Ely

Basically, they're going to get caught. They aren't the smartest criminals.

Jake Shulaw

Lance is one of the smartest wrestlers I've ever had.

Ashton Kutcher

It was the smartest thing I've ever done,

Laura Puchowicz

We wanted to make the motel better, but renovating the old structure would just have been a humongous problem.

Dave Foley

I like the sitcom, as a structure.

Carl Jung

Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche

Demetri Martin

They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that.

Jerry Green

We still have old time play time at recess, but we have structured play as well.

A. R. Ammons

Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.

Kathleen Blanco

If we're going to have recovery, we're going to have to have structured government. Time is of the essence,

John Hewson

It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work.

Kris Jenkins

They've let me know I have a support structure here and anything I need to get I can get.

Gemma Arterton

I'm always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don't have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I'm making my own choices.

Cilla Black

I can't say I'm surprised I was successful. I was determined - and I got it.

John Milton

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, / Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.

Jacqueline McKenzie

I thought it was very original, and I said, 'This should be a hit.' And it was. So I wasn't so much surprised as I was really pleased.

Dana Cody

We are disappointed but not surprised with the judge's ruling.

Felipe Alou

I won't say surprised but I'm kind of disappointed.

David Levine

I was very surprised in the ambulance when they started talking about e-mailing some doctor.

Andy McDonald

I think I'm the most surprised out of anyone.

Jeffrey Rea

I was real surprised to see him out there.

Steve Jobs

It's impossibly small, ... It's thinner than a No. 2 pencil.