Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Dekker

This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.

Thomas Dekker

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

Henry Taylor

Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.

Henry Taylor

The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.

Henry Taylor

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.

Samuel Foote

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.

Thomas Kyd

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.

Dodie Smith

I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life.

Dodie Smith

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

Howard Davidowitz

The advertisers are gone. It's a question of getting them back. But getting every one of them back is priced into the stock. The stock is priced as if everything she does is magical and perfect.

Patrick Ness

The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.

M. Wolfe

For whatever reason, $199 tends to be a magical price point.

Nnedi Okorafor

I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke.

Ron Taffel

Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.

Tony Pullen

I told them going into the seventh inning we want to make it a magical season so let's make it a magical first game.

Robert Schulz

We always want to have the right rating on a company. There's nothing magical about the timing.

Grace Gummer

There's something magical about theater. You can live the character every single day to the point where you become that person.

Ozzie Guillen

Every day, it's somebody different. I've never seen a team as magical as this one.

Ivar Giaever

Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.

Ivar Giaever

'Incontrovertible' is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.

David Hanson

I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.

William Gibson

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things-from subatomic particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole.

Carl Sagan

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Carl Sagan

When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is promptly pushed and tugged out of the hive. The death pheromone is oleic acid. What happens if a live bee is dabbed with a drop of oleic acid? Then no matter how strapping and vigourous it might be, it is carried kicking and screaming out of the hive.

Carl Sagan

The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.

Carl Sagan

I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated.