Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sally Ride

Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.

Robin McKinley

Cigars should be like onions," she said, unfastening the catch and pushing back the pane. "Either the whole company does, or the whole company does not.

Raymond Chandler

I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.

Kenneth Grahame

Onion sauce! Onion Sauce!

Jonathan Swift

Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

Liam Neeson

I'm Irish, so I'm used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I'll call it dinner.

Charles Dickens

He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions.

Ambrose Bierce

The best kind of onion soup is the simplest kind.

Simon Rich

I never felt ostracized or made to feel strange by obsessing over The Onion or Calvin and Hobbes. That was considered completely normal.

Michael Pollan

When chopping onions, just chop onions.

Richard Dawkins

Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing to add to that knowledge, as we still know nothing about the creation of that intelligence.

Richard Ayoade

A writer/director is a tough thing to gauge when someone hasn't directed a movie before. You just don't know. Sometimes it will be a great script that's written beautifully, and then the director who has also written it does not have the facility to translate it.

Russell Banks

Nobody does anything for one reason.

Russell Brand

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.

Woodrow Wilson

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know

William Wycherley

Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.

William Shenstone

Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.

William J. Clinton

I like that about the Republicans; the evidence does not faze them, they are not bothered at all by the facts.