Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Baxter

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

Russell Banks

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.

Ruben Studdard

People don't have to like or support you. So you always have to say thank you.

William Shockley

Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is more important to know if the experiment will yield new and probably enduring knowledge about nature. If it is likely to yield such knowledge, it is, in my opinion, good fundamental research; and this is more important than whether the motivation is purely aesthetic satisfaction on the part of the experimenter on the one hand or the improvement of the stability of a high-power transistor on the other.

Tucker Carlson

Ron Karenga wrote a book back in 1968, and in that book, he said that the reason, part of his motivation for starting Kwanzaa was because he felt that Christianity was the white man religion, and he didn't like Jews, and so he made up this lie. And he called it an African holiday because he was concerned that if he didn't call it an African holiday, that black Americans would not participate in it.

Tupac Shakur

You gotta find a way to survive cause they win when your soul dies.

Tupac Shakur

I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

Vera Wang

The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.

Valentino Rossi

I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.

Sam Wyche

I was in serious cabin-fever trouble being out of football,

Paul Busse

It can be taken as seriously as you want or as whimsically as you want.

Debra Brown

Had he been in the vehicle, he would have been seriously injured.

Jim Gillespie

We're not going to be taken seriously if we speak or we may not have a voice at all,

Paolo Sorrentino

I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person.

Mao Zedong

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

Jon Pertwee

Somehow I seem to have been gently bypassed as a serious actor.

Joyce Carol Oates

Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.

John McEnroe

You cannot be serious!

Jim Calhoun

I've said Marcus, in my opinion, is the best passer that I've ever coached. I think he took affront to that. Now he's scoring. There aren't many better point guards in the country than him.

Steve Martarano

We figured, let's get ahead of the curve. You talk to just about any hunting or sportsmen's organization, and they all think this is an affront to sporting sensibilities.

Denny Green

I don't think you can change that. That's part of his personality type. He's kind of a fun-loving guy. He takes affront if someone is trying to take it to the house on him. He just has to be careful with that because the more you get in there, the more you become kind of a target for one of those big guys.

Amy King

I find it very heartening that the Albany/Alexander community has organized so effectively and spoken out so strongly to what I consider to be an affront to these students' rights, ... The good news is we have local people who are acting.

Vincente Fox

Certification is more than an affront to Mexico and to other countries. It is a sham that should be denounced and canceled,

Jonah Goldberg

Men are disgusting and, left to their own devices, they will affront the central tenets of human decency - and laugh uproariously at it

Hilary Clinton

Kosovo is an affront to everything we stand for,

Jim Calhoun

I said all along that Marcus, in my opinion, is the best passer I've ever coached. I think he took an affront to that because now he's got two 20-point games.

Bill Clinton

It will be good for our souls because global poverty is an affront and confronting the challenge is simply the right thing to do.