Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leonardo da Vinci

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

George Smith

I self-published the first edition, hardcover, in June 2003. The book is now in its third printing.

Miley Cyrus

The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them when they're gone.

Michael Lewis

There are enough books in the world. You want to write the ones that are good. The minute you write books because you need the income not because you think you have a good subject, you should just stop. There are sixty thousand books published in this country every year, and most of them are crap.

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Bobby Fischer

I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.

Rob Wilson

To me, a book like that has tremendous historical value. Notre Dame's media guide should be a whole lot larger than Southern Mississippi's.

Stephen Jay Gould

A rare book at once of great importance and wonderful to read.... Gould presents a fascinating historical study of scientific racism, tracing it through monogeny and polygeny, phrenology , recapitulation, and hereditarian IQ theory. He stops at each point to illustrate both the logical inconsistencies of the theories and the prejudicially motivated, albeit unintentional, misuse of data in each case.... A major addition to the scientific literature.

Stephen Jay Gould

[T]he effects of general change [in literature] are most tellingly recorded not in alteration of the best products, but in the transformation of the most ordinary workaday books; for when potboilers adopt the new style, then the revolution is complete.

Ben Roethlisberger

I have a lot of confidence in my offensive line, ... I think (it) will do a great job of protecting me.

Ted Carson

I have a lot of confidence in here because I know what she can do.

Gary Turcott

I have a lot of confidence in Dallas.

Harvin Moore

I have a low level of confidence in our human resources effort. I think we're very closed, very incestuous.

Nick Ursitti

I have a lot more confidence this year. I was a little intimidated last year. You're gonna get hit around, but it's how you handle it. And I think I did OK.

Valerie Fleming

I have all the confidence in the world of Shauna.

Doug Brown

I have all the confidence in the world in those guys. We're all excited, knowing that this is our last year together. We're finally ready to reach our potential.

Miguel Olivo

I have all of my confidence back. The manager gives me an opportunity to play. He trusts me. I feel like I'm part of the team. I feel so comfortable. I needed something. I needed new faces, a new team. I'm glad I'm here.

Shelby Gross

I have a sense of confidence that I've never had before. I know I've done the work and am twice the fighter today than I was even a year ago.

Daryl Patton

We're a pressure team. We're going to give up some big plays at time but overall ... we gave up some big plays but the kids responded usually with something positive right after that.

Caitlyn Jenner

'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.

Alecko Eskandarian

I needed this. Peter gave me the start, he's been very supportive, and I just wanted to repay him.

Maurice Ager

I never gave up on myself and I understood there's plenty of time left in the season.

Larry Graham

I'm thankful God gave us the rain and I'm happy to be in it.

Jim Day

Iowa gave us an offer that we couldn't refuse.

Mike Kudla

I had 46 right there. I just couldn't get that last inch on my right arm. It just kind of gave way. But I was very happy with that performance.

Will Christian

I really think they are solid all the way around. They are very, very solid. They are very well coached, and they are doing what they gave been doing what they have been doing for years.

Genevieve Gorder

Including the kids that use the space through the physical transformation gave the young people ownership in the space that they use. We took a day and joined together, and that is a great lesson.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Peter Weir

With more time I like to see the actors find something of their own places, so I can get their own ideas before I put mine in. Given they have a better idea more often enough.

Louis Zamperini

God has given me so much. He expects so much out of me.

Lucian

How gracious are the gods in bestowing high positions; and how reluctant are they to insure them when given.

Francois Hollande

Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.

Bob Sanders

All of those really big hits I remember. I put one on him. I've given people a lot of those.

Mark Pearson

All the political appointees have been given their marching orders.

Eddi Reader

It's not what you've been given, it's what you do with what you've got.

Thomas McManus

The market's progress since then (Sept. 21) seems excessive, given the challenging environment.

Steve Lewis

Thank God there was nobody in the pool.

Ted Nugent

That's not a big bang. God made that. That's a liver. That's mystical.

Carl Sandburg

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Bruce Babbitt

We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.

Albert Schweitzer

The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

D. H. Lawrence

The history of the cosmos is the history of the struggle of becoming. When the dim flux of unformed life struggled, convulsed back and forth upon itself, and broke at last into light and dark came into existence as light, came into existence as cold shadow then every atom of the cosmos trembled with delight.

D. H. Lawrence

God is only a great imaginative experience.

D. H. Lawrence

Where sanity is there God is.

D. H. Lawrence

Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.

Bill Gates

Tasks that we thought in the past as impossible will now be rather simple, ... We are going to lead the way in XML advances.

Samuel Butler

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Edward Fitzgerald

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Valerie Azlynn

I like a man with some extra padding.

Bernard Baruch

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

Louis D. Brandeis

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.

B. F. Skinner

No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.

Guy Gavriel Kay

I'm still proud of the 'Fionavar Tapestry.' The fact I don't write the same way is as much as anything else the fact a man in his 50s doesn't write the way a man in his 20s does - or he shouldn't.

Ben Jonson

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Kobe Bryant

We just didn't execute. We need to man up and not make excuses.

Eminem

It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate.