Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roddy Doyle

To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true.

Robert Mayer

The blood corpuscles take up the atmospheric oxygen in the lungs, and the vital chemical process accordingly depends essentially on the combination of oxygen absorbed by blood corpuscles with the combustible constituents of the blood to form carbonic acid and water.

Ziggy Marley

The sun is always shining. We have oxygen, trees, birds. There's so much good things on Earth, still. We haven't destroyed everything.

Jacque Fresco

You don't see the plug connected to the environment, so it looks like we're free, wandering around. Take the oxygen away, we all die immediately. Take plant life away, we die. And without the sun, all the plants die. So we are connected.

Henry Rollins

I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.

Laura Hillenbrand

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.

George MacDonald

There is no water in oxygen, no water in hydrogen: it comes bubbling fresh from the imagination of the living God, rushing from under the great white throne of the glacier. The very thought of it makes one gasp with an elemental joy no metaphysician can analyse.

Elizabeth Gilbert

When it comes to women, get your life together first. Put on your own oxygen mask first. Figure out who you are. Mature. And then go find somebody to share that life with.

Joel Salatin

The wealth of any ecosystem is its perennials. The primal herbivore-predator-disturbance-rest dance is literally the breath and pulse of the earth. Grasses recycle oxygen far more efficiently than trees. The turnover is faster. Grass reaches out and turns solar energy into carbon. Tillage hyper-aerates the soil, burning out carbon. But because a plant creates bilateral symmetry at the soil horizon, it sloughs off root mass when the top gets chopped off.

Richard P. Feynman

It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is

Sarah Palin

Don't retreat. Instead - reload!

Sarah Caldwell

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Saoirse Ronan

Learning is the most important thing, no mater how you do it, or where you do it, or who you do it with.

Richard Rorty

The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition

Robert Pozen

Routinize the routine. The things that aren't important to you, whether it's breakfast or your commute, try to do them with the least energy possible so that leaves you with more energy for other things.

Sanford I. Weill

Learn how to be a loser, because it's important to be a loser to be a winner.

Wallace Stevens

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

Vincent Kartheiser

Storytelling is the important thing.

Richelle Mead

Please don’t get sentimental,” said Jerome. “It’s nauseating.

W. Somerset Maugham

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

James Joyce

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Mason Cooley

The sentimental want to be thrilled by everything.

Irving Babbitt

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

Jack Kevorkian

I am not a sentimental person.

Henry David Thoreau

Commerce is unexpectedly confident and serene, alert, adventurous, and unwearied. It is very natural in its methods withal, far more so than many fantastic enterprises and sentimental experiments, and hence its singular success.

Cornelia Funke

Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.