Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth McCracken

I work in my office on the campus of the University of Texas. It's the sort of place described as 'book-lined', but it's recently tipped over into 'fire-hazard' territory.

Stanley Cohen

My Ph.D. thesis concerned the metabolic mechanism by which the end product of nitrogen metabolism in the earthworm is switched from ammonia to urea during starvation. I remember spending my nights collecting over 5,000 worms from the University campus green.

Elizabeth Heskett

I decided to move off campus because it's cheaper than living on campus.

Travis Todd

Campus Crusade just has a lot of students who want to help.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Danny Culler

Coming to the checkered. Watch your mirror. Watch your mirror.

John Gibbons

Coming in we knew we had a good one,

David Perkins

Now, gas prices, ... they go to $10 to the gallon, we're still coming to the races.

Dave Allison

Ten to 12 kids are coming in early to drop off their gear in the event that they need some seasoning. Then they will fly to Dallas. We can always send their stuff if they get a job in Dallas.

Rashad Anderson

Sometimes after a game or something I think about it. I don't gloat on it. It wasn't a goal of mind coming to school, but it happens.

Tom Lemming

Some people think all these guys from the pros, like Weis and Carroll, can just universally be good recruiters, because they're coming from the NFL,

Andrei Kozlov

Sometimes he screamed at them too much, but it was coming from his heart.

Arthur Ashe

Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike.

Bertrand Russell

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Henry Grunwald

The Democrats have nothing to cheer but fear itself.

Albert Einstein

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fear that makes faith may break faith.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

All is well, tho' faith and form Be sunder'd in the night of fear.

Aldous Huxley

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

Aldous Huxley

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

Albert Einstein

Since I do not forsee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the presence of fear, it would not do.

John Lyly

None but the lark so shrill and clear; / How at heaven's gates she claps her wings, / The morn not waking till she sings.

Sharon Salzberg

Rapture is the gateway to nirvana.

Glenn Miller

It's a big-city feel in a small town. It will jump-start our gateway to the city.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Nick Miller

Dr. Who is my greatest passion in life.

Michael R. Bloomberg

Tonight we celebrate. Tomorrow, we go back to work. I can't wait. I have the greatest job in the world.

David Goldstein

We got many requests for a mystery. I thought if we were going to do one, why not do the greatest one of all time?

Angelina Jolie

Second to my children, spending time with refugees and other persons of need around the world has been the greatest gift, ... It's been the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

James Darren

One thing I don't do is, I don't listen to Sinatra before I record or before I go out live. Because if I did, I'd have to say, "What am I doing?" I couldn't listen to the greatest singer in the world and try to go out there and sing. I'd be too depressed.

Olli Jokinen

He's the greatest to play the game, he and Gretzky. It's tough to see those old guys go. But Mario's smart enough to know when it's time to move on and step away.

Andre Agassi

How do you find words for what this means? ... This has been some of the greatest memories I've ever had on a tennis court.

Sally Schneider

One of my greatest joys is when someone like your wife takes one idea or one piece of a recipe and does it her way. That's what I'm encouraging.

Alfred North Whitehead

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

David Mann

People are still not sure if we will see 8.11 (yuan per dollar) for the rest of the year or the rest of the week.

Ruth Rendell

People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, not just being put into bed and fed.

Pam Brown

People can sip tea and have a little tidbit to eat.

Bruce Feiler

People can see in him what they want,

Michael Vick

People can say what they want to say,

Lorenzo Booker

People can say what they want about the season.

Don Meng

People can just stroll and go into the shops. The decorations should be plentiful.

Brandon Sanderson

Do not dash if you only have the strength to walk, and do not waste your time pushing on the walls that will not give. More importantly, don't shove where a pat would be sufficient.

Carey Mulligan

I never had posters on my wall and when I meet actors that I really admire, it's exciting because I get to work with them.

Craig Ferguson

From 1934 to 1963, the biggest criminals in America ended up on Alcatraz. Nowadays they end up on Wall Street.

Bob Dylan

Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.

Elie Wiesel

What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls.

Charles Fillmore

The true church is not made of creeds and forms, nor is it contained in walls of wood and stone; the heart of man is its temple and the Spirit of truth is the one guide into all Truth. When men learn to turn within to the Spirit of truth, who is in each one for his light and inspiration, the differences between the churches of man will be eliminated, and the one church will be recognized.

Curtis Jackson

Be prepared to do whatever you have to do. If you get put in a situation where your back is up against the wall let your gun go off.

Anthony Horowitz

He was a commander in the Russian army at a time when the Russians were our enemies and still part of the Soviet Union . This wasn't very long ago, Alex.The collapse of communism. It was only in 1989 that the Berlin Wall came down." She stopped. "I suppose none of this means very much to you." "Well, it wouldn't," Alex said. "I was only two years old.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

When I photographed Marilyn Monroe, I mixed up my cameras - one had black-and-white film, the other color. I took many pictures. Only two color ones came out all right. My favorite picture of Marilyn hangs always on the wall in my office. It was taken on the little patio of her Hollywood house.