Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it.

Tom Hardy

Every time you need protein, get yourself a boiled egg in. But your main meals would be chicken, or hummus, or white fish. You can lose about a pound a day. But you can do this stuff over a period of time, and you can have your happy days. It's about motivation and it has to be something that's realistic for you to keep up.

John Wooden

The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.

Poul Anderson

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

Neil Simon

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Linus Torvalds

What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is: kill her.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

[Domestic violence is] a carefully laid physical, financial and psychological trap.

Charles Bukowski

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Alberto Manguel

Life happened because I turned the pages.

Albert Einstein

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

Albert Einstein

Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.

Albert Einstein

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

Albert Einstein

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

Albert Einstein

I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

Albert Einstein

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

Albert Einstein

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Amanda Lindhout

After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.

Amanda Schull

For the first four years of my studying in the U.S., I couldn't go home for two reasons. One is I was afraid that if I left my student visa may not hold and I wouldn't be able to come back to continue. Second, there was this big outrage in China that I didn't know how to face the public.

Amanda Schull

When I first came USA, I didn't feel this was my home. This was where I was studying, and then my home was now rejecting me.

Alton Brown

A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual while flying.

Anne Edwards

For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiere of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late.

Anne Fortier

as a bird swoops down on it's prey, and assumes this land bound wretch into heaven, so did romeo steal her lips before they fled him again. suspended somewhere between cherubs and devils, his quarry ceased to buck, and he spread his wings wide and let the rising wind carry them off across the sky, until even the predator himself had lost every hope of returning home. within that one embrace, [he] became aware of a feeling of certainty he had not thought possible for anyone - even the virtuous. with her in his arms, all other women, past, present, and future, simply ceased to exist.

Anne Hathaway

I think that people had this idea that I sat at home and sucked on lollipops and ate cotton candy while I watched cartoons - wearing a tiara.

Ann Aguirre

... Where did you go?” “Down below.” “Ugh,” she said. “I’ve heard they’re little better than animals.” Funny. I thought the same thing about most Topsiders I encountered. Tegan touched my hand in silent sympathy, and I set my jaw. ... I stepped forward and pasted on a false smile. We were in her home, after all. The least I could do was be polite. “I’m Deuce, animal from the underground.