Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.

Cecelia Ahern

What was that thing that could make two people promise one another to spend every day of the rest of their lives together? Ah,I found it. It was a thing called love. A small simple word.

Cecelia Ahern

Their plan had been very simple: to stay together for the rest of their lives.

Carrie Mae Weems

I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.

Carl Perkins

That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.

Carl Sagan

There is no other species on Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything.

Bernard Beckett

Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.

Benjamin Rush

A simple democracy is the devil's own government.

Benoit Mandelbrot

It was astonishing when at one point, I got the idea of how to make artifical clouds with a collaborator, we had pictures made which were theoretically completely artificial pictures based upon that one very simple idea. And this picture everybody views as being clouds.

Ice Cube

'Boyz-n-the-Hood' was actually supposed to be written for Eazy's group. He had a group out in New York called Home Boys Only, called HBO. One of them looked like LL Cool J. Eazy wanted to write a song for them, a street song, like what we were doing on the mix tapes. So when I wrote it, it was too West Coast for them.

Gillian Armstrong

Hollywood is a very old and very structured situation. There's still a lot of old boys at the top who have the money.

Gillian Armstrong

Boys are lacking in female skills, dropping out of schools and ending up in jails and unemployed because they lack these skills.

Waylon Jennings

And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.

Alfred Verrecchia

The overall decline in our boys' business hurt toys' profitability because that is a high margin business for us,

Ann Romney

That's why I like to get out there, and get people to see the other side of Mitt, and know us in a different reflection when you see the family and how funny he is with the boys and with the grandkids. And you know, just what a super guy he is. That's part of what I am doing, is letting people see the other side of Mitt.

Gore Vidal

Boys don't like girls around when they do boy things.

Bill Burr

A lot of my fears and anxieties are the fears and anxieties of a six-year-old boy. When I finally confront them, they're really small.

Bette Davis

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.

Yolanda Adams

I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful.

Bel Powley

Movies make teenagers have quippy answers for every question. Nothing seems to faze them, and they're like, 'Oh, whatever.' You're not like that when you're a teenager. You're really earnest. Things really feel like life or death. And you kind of oscillate between emotions at one time. It's very emotionally draining being a teenager.

Carl Sagan

Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers.

Bill Burr

Deny your emotions and act like you have answers

Damon Lindelof

The answers to those questions were a beginning instead of a payoff. And as a result of that, those answers are coming in the first three episodes of season two. Because they lay out the groundwork for what that entire season is about. Including the numbers.

Cliff Edwards

The answers to these questions will constitute a legacy of this sitting court.

Byron Callan

The answers to the questions of 1979-80 were very different than what we are expecting in the months to come.

Dan Castellaneta

The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV!

Harry Samit

The answers dictate the logical course of the interview. You can't ask logical follow-up questions if he provides misleading answers. It takes you down all sorts of alleys--wild goose chases, essentially.