Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zoe Cassavetes

I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.

Penn Jillette

For us to make any sort of statement that our artistic expression is being trounced would be self-serving, unpleasant and not true.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

When you tell people you're a playwright, their eyes sort of glaze over. But when you say you write the 'Fantastic Four' or 'Spider-Man,' they perk up. It's a touchstone that has gained more credibility as artistic expression.

Justin Lane

I've been struggling, pulling my head out. The coaches have been working with me on changing to a stance where I could keep my head in better.

Marcus Tubbs

Coming here last year, I heard the fans hadn't had a whole lot to cheer for. We're changing that. We're giving back to the city, we're doing good things and we're making the fans happy. And those are the people that matter.

Edward Kennedy

The president has moved the goal posts. Americans understand changing the rules of the game; they don't like it,

Penelope Tree

Wearing the right thing, at the right moment, could actually change your life.

Jonathan Todd

Let me be clear, the Commission's position is that Microsoft is obliged to comply with the remedies imposed by the Commission's March 2004 decision, nothing more, nothing less. We are not moving goal posts, we are not changing our demands.

Kristy Curry

She was able to hit some big shots. She's just had a way of changing games for us.

Earl Blumenauer

I think this is an affirmation of the value of Public Broadcasting. I think it's going to lead this week to hundreds of people changing their wills.

Jimmy Williams

He's in love with it. As long as he's playing well and we're winning, there's no need in changing ownership.

Carol Kaplan

I can see changing the name from Carol's Linens to Sophie's Linens,

Steve Williams

It was a long race with the headwind and then it was all over pretty quickly. Just trying to comprehend what (we've) just achieved. It was fantastic.

Taryn Thompson

That's what I said today. You know, 'How could you do this to him?'... I don't know what possessed him to do it. I can't even comprehend that.

Paul Lancaster

Our shooting has not shown up here. We are a really good shooting team in gyms, in high school gyms. Up here is a different atmosphere. The depth perception is different.

Mike Tice

I've never felt this good about our depth at cornerback,

Charles Kennedy

When I started knocking on Highland doors in May 1983, two things struck me more than any other. First was the sheer depth of hostility towards the Tories in general. Second was the particular hostility towards Margaret Thatcher and her local ministerial spear-carrier, energy minister and incumbent MP of 13 years' standing, Hamish Gray.

Joseph Campbell

You have to learn to recognize your own depth.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

John Henry Newman

How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?

Stephanie Coontz

The depth and influence of the radicalism of the late 1960s and early 1970s are often exaggerated.

Rob Enderle

There really isn't much depth to this partnership.

Brett Davis

Our problems are going to be depth ? and we're very young.

Alia Shawkat

I'm not a huge TV person, but when I do watch, it's always after the fact because I like to binge watch.

Marc Gerecht

The facts on the ground. We still don't have that many people in Iraq we can go to and get information that makes sense.

Scott Brown

The facts are the facts, ... The truth never changes.

Claudio Hummes

In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa.

Thomas Hobbes

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

Thomas Hobbes

Fact be vertuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

Michael Dowd

Facts are God’s native tongue.

Jeannette Walls

The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that.

Jeremy Irons

One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable

Robert Browning

All poetry is putting the infinite within the finite.

Ernest Holmes

We are chemists in the laboratory of the Infinite. What, then shall we create?

Franz Kafka

There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.

Louis Graham

Quite frankly, I don't think Wayne Williams is responsible for anything, ... I don't think he did anything. I made up my mind with that 20 years ago, and I still feel that way.

Augusten Burroughs

your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.

Ben Folds

I've gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.

Billy Blanks

Where I am today, is where my mind and will put me, where I am tomorrow is where my mind will put me.

Ben Jonson

Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.

Alan Hovhaness

No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Isaiah Kacyvenski

We all wanted to have a song to get our minds right to run down the field.

Peter Uihlein

I don't mind playing or watching a movie or sitting down.

Ben Mendelsohn

As soon as you start acting in an accent, you're sort of out of your comfort zone. Maybe people start getting used to accents after a long period of time. But as soon as you do that, it's not so much as capturing the sound of the way other people speak, it's being able to actually be and move around in the sound.

Ayn Rand

Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted.

Miley Cyrus

There's always gonna be another mountain, I'm always gonna wanna make it move, Always gonna be a uphill battle, Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose, Ain't about how fast I get there, Ain't about what's waiting on the other side, It's the climb

Bella Thorne

I like 'As Long As You Love Me' and 'Boyfriend' by Justin Bieber. It gets you moving - you just can't help it! And 'Teach Me How To Dougie' gets Zendaya and I every time.

Daniel Gilbert

Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's a system that's supposed to move back and forth, between happy and unhappy. That's how the system guides you through the world.

Bobby Farrelly

I think that's the key to being a director: to be able to get the shot and move on quickly.

Brit Marling

Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it's hard when things are moving that quickly to keep that sense of wonder about being alive.

Eduardo Galeano

A pretty move, for the love of God.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

Bertrand Russell

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

Edward Young

Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

Aristotle

A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.

Aristotle

For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater is quicker than that of the less, just as the downward movement of a mass of gold or lead, or of any other body endowed with weight, is quicker in proportion to its size.

Seth MacFarlane

Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment.

Stephen Jay Gould

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.

Colin Wilson

The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain.

Claude Bernard

A man of science rises ever, in seeking truth; and if he never finds it in its wholeness, he discovers nevertheless very significant fragments; and these fragments of universal truth are precisely what constitutes science.

Claude Bernard

Theories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more facts as they advance.

Ben Nicholson

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

Ben Jonson

Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!

Alex Haley

I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.

Debbie Ford

Your soul never asks you to endure anything you can't handle.

Alphonsus Liguori

He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.

Alphonsus Liguori

It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.

Anthony Marra

We twist our souls around each other’s miseries.

Anthony Marra

You are mine. I recognize you. We twist our souls around each other's miseries. It is that which makes us family.

Andrei Platonov

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

Augusten Burroughs

No matter your spiritual beliefs, if you hold any, the answer is the same: sometimes, why is not knowable. If you open the refrigerator door and a tub of Kozy Shack tapioca pudding tumbles out and splats open onto the floor, you clean it. You don’t stand there and question why it happened, how it was possible. Why doesn’t matter now.

Eckhart Tolle

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.

Eckhart Tolle

Become conscious of being conscious.

Eckhart Tolle

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

Deepak Chopra

Time is just quantified eternity.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.

Adolf Loos

Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.

Alexander MacLaren

Unbelief is criminal because it is a moral act, an act of the whole nature.-Belief or unbelief is a test of a man's whole spiritual condition, because it is the whole being, affections, will, conscience, as well as the understanding, which are concerned in it.

Alexander Pope

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Azar Nafisi

I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer and a teacher, so much of my time is spent interpreting stories and connecting to other individuals. It is the urge to know more about ourselves and others that creates empathy. Through imagination and our desire for rapport, we transcend our limitations, freshen our eyes, and are able to look at ourselves and the world through a new and alternative lens.

Ben Goldacre

I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent small amounts.' What I want to know is this. If I drink too much in one go, will it leak out off my arsehole instead? Thank you. Anton.

Jason Aldean

I only took about five guitar lessons in my life from an actual teacher. I learned fast that that wasn't for me. I didn't have the attention span to learn that way. So I learned the basics from my dad, then just from playing on stage, and watching other guitar players.

Daniel Handler

Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.

Robert Kiyosaki

Success is a poor teacher

Donald Trump

I don't think I changed a lot although I learned a lot. Adversity can be a wonderful teacher. Some people can't handle the pressure of it. For me it was a great thing. I learned about myself going through tough times. I guess I learned well.

Adam Savage

Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences. There are jokes I tell in the show that don't get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers. Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren't our audience - it's the critical thinkers we love.

Ama Ata Aidoo

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.

Abraham Lincoln

Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.