Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history of the universe. He is the 'first fruits,' the pioneer of life,' He has forced open a door that has been locked since the death of the first man. He has met, fought, and beaten the King of Death. Everything is different because He has done so.

C. S. Lewis

As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'

Bill Bryson

I ordered a coffee and a little something to eat and savored the warmth and dryness. Somewhere in the background Nat King Cole sang a perky tune. I watched the rain beat down on the road outside and told myself that one day this would be twenty years ago.

Benjamin Rush

In Macbeth a lady is restrained from the murder of a king by his resemblance of her father as he slept. Should not all men be restrained from acts of violence and even of unkindness against their fellow men by observing in them something which resembles the Savior of the World? If nothing else certainly, a human figure?

Antonia Fraser

King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them.

Bill Burr

I bet The Walking Dead gets really low ratings out in Montana, just because all they need to do is look out their f-king window, am I right?

Bertrand Russell

Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every asylum: one man will think he is the Governor of the Bank of England, another will think he is the King, and yet another will think he is God. Highly similar delusions, if expressed by educated men in obscure language, lead to professorships of philosophy; and if expressed by emotional men in eloquent language, lead to dictatorships.

Bertrand Russell

It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make him a good king, but from Plato's point of view it was essential. He was sufficiently Pythagorean to think that without mathematics no true wisdom is possible.

William Shakespeare

Crowns have their compass-length of days their date- Triumphs their tomb-felicity, her fate- Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker, But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker.

Carl Sagan

Nature does not always conform to our predispositions and preferences, to what we deem comfortable and easy to understand.

Carl Sagan

Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills. If it were widely understood that claims to knowledge require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience...

Arsene Wenger

The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable.

Antoine Lavoisier

If everything in chemistry is explained in a satisfactory manner without the help of phlogiston, it is by that reason alone infinitely probable that the principle does not exist; that it is a hypothetical body, a gratuitous supposition; indeed, it is in the principles of good logic, not to multiply bodies without necessity.

Bertrand Russell

There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may lead.

Robert Kiyosaki

Money does not make you happy, but the lack of money can cause unhappiness.

Baz Luhrmann

I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Does this have anything to do with the unit we’re studying? Because I can’t find anything about desired characteristics of a mate anywhere in our text.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Vee scowled at him. She is famous for that scowl. It's a look that does everything but audibly hiss.

Dave Gibbons

I generally like very visually striking films. I love a lot of Stanley Kubrick's films. I would have to say 'Dr. Strangelove', which of course has got resonance in 'Watchmen'. It's a favorite movie of mine.

Albert J. Nock

As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it cannot even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.

Chuck Palahniuk

More than one side? You're Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass!

Mitch Hedberg

Mr. Pibb is a poor imitation of Dr. Pepper. Dude didn't even get his degree.

James Boswell

Dr. Johnson ... sometimes employed himself in chymistry, sometimes in watering and pruning a vine, and sometimes in small experiments, at which those who may smile, should recollect that there are moments which admit of being soothed only by trifles.

Jim Gaffigan

I always imagine that if I met Dr. Seuss, he would be very similar to Crispin Glover.

Eoin Colfer

(about Dr. Po) Just another quack spouting psychobabble.

Ned Vizzini

Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner." Dr. Mahmoud leans in. "Life is managed.

Liev Schreiber

You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Suess.