Famous Quotes & Sayings

Studs Terkel

And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey.

E. O. Wilson

That's the way to get young people. Once they see there are wonderful things to hunt for, to rediscover a species that was thought to be extinct or is extremely rare, to be the first to see a nest, to discover a new species unsuspected close to your home - these are things, I think, with a little education and excitement and the right kind of natural history would actually start a movement that makes going back to nature a profitable adventure.

Alan Lamb

I was practicing my dry-land paddle skills in a basketball court near North Village one night and an outdoor adventure assistant noticed me.

Virginia Woolf

If we didn't live adventurously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.

Gil Morgan

I looked like Robin Hood going through the 18, ... an adventure in itself.

Olivier Theyskens

I find him very enlightening. If there is something inspiring you -- if it's an adventure with H&M -- you have to do it. You must not hold back.

James Cameron

With ‘Avatar,’ I thought, Forget all these chick flicks and do a classic guys’ adventure movie, something in the Edgar Rice Burroughs mold, like John Carter of Mars—a soldier goes to Mars,

Jacqueline Cochran

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind and spirit.

Jacqueline Bisset

Sometimes you like the personal adventure implicit in the making of a film, and sometimes you like your part in a film, and sometimes you like the final result.

Al Gore

Take it from me - every vote counts. In our Democracy, every vote has power. And never forget - that power is yours. Don't let anyone take it away or talk you into throwing it away. And let's make sure that this time every vote is counted.

Dick Cheney

We will ... succeed at getting a democracy established in Iraq. And I think, when we do, that will be the end of the insurgency.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

Henry Miller

The blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.

Hugo Chavez

The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

Mike Reagan

The event is good way to get students to register to vote. I think it helps with democracy more than anything. It's a good way to get a lot of student support.

Manmohan Singh

Democracy is good for world peace.

Norman Mailer

The nightmare in every democracy, the very nightmare, is if it gets worse and worse and worse, we could end up totalitarian.

Daniel Burns

It was unbelievable, ... but I knew it was helping us.

Paul Tagliabue

The state of Texas, and San Antonio, are helping shelter hurricane victims. That is the most important mission right now.

Charles R. Swindoll

It helps me if I remember that God is in charge of my day - not I.

Elie Wiesel

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

Howard Dean

At this point, my position is pretty delicate, ... If I come out in the newspaper (with my opinion), it may not end up helping New Hampshire's position.

Ray Kroc

The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.

Tony Abbott

Mates help each other; they do not tax each other.

John Travolta

You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.

Black Elk

I was sixteen years old and more, and I had not yet done anything the Grandfathers wanted me to do, but they had been helping me.