Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edsger Dijkstra

There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.

Ruth Reichl

Given a choice between great food and boring company or boring food and great company, I'll take the great company any day.

M. J. Rose

If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.

Frank Smith

Learning is never aversive - usually we are not aware of it at all. It is failure to learn that is frustrating and boring, and so is having to attend to nonsensical activities.

Andrew Smith

I don't know if boring is the right word to describe the coming year. But it's not likely there will be anything controversial. It's going to be a status quo kind of year. The Legislature is in an enviable position as to what to do with all the extra money that is coming in.

J. G. Ballard

It seems to me that what most of us have to fear for the future is not that something terrible is going to happen, but rather that nothing is going to happen... I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is boring. The future is going to be boring.

Amber Riley

My friends tell me I'm the most boring celebrity they know! A typical night for me is at home in California or watching movies in my pyjamas.

Tom Stoppard

I seem to be failing in my intention to be as boring as I possibly can be for self-protection.

Jason Patric

I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If I'd wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five of them while it was in the can. It wasn't worth it to me. That was just an innocuous, boring movie.

Billie Joe Armstrong

When all else fails...be a rockstar

Bonnie Hunt

When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.

Randy Pausch

Better to fail spectacularly than do something mediocre.

Henry Miller

Every day that we fail to live out the maximum of our potentialities we kill the Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, Christ which is in us.

Hudson Taylor

In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.

Horace Mann

If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail.

Thomas A. Edison

I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.

Hans Zimmer

You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something.

Charlie Munger

A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail.

Otto Bismarck

When a man says that he approves something in principal, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it in practice.

Dan Harmon

It was never my direct intention to do anything particularly medium-defying.

Chuck Berry

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

Stephen King

I never have a thematic intention at the outset.

Shahid Afridi

I love cricket and I have no intention to retire

Mike Tyson

Every punch was thrown with bad intentions.

Mason Cooley

True wit has a grave intention.

Mahmoud Zahar

Negotiations is not our intention, negotiation is a method,

Mahmud Zahar

Negotiations are not our intention, negotiation is a method.

Reggie Sanders

What we're trying to do, ... is be as fine-tuned and honed-in on the small things as we can possibly be.

Howard Clark

My first thought was that she could have possibly been dead.

Michael Young

I think he's doing all he can possibly do, probably.

Dan Hawkins

The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.

F. Stone

There was quite possibly one other person shooting, ... We do have witness statements.

Greg Norman

Would there possibly be another woman? Absolutely. Time will tell who that will be.

Allan Bristow

As of right now, that's our only option, ... We'll look for others. But right now that seems to be the best.

Jeff Sluman

Other days, making one or two birdies seems like it's going to be impossible.

Ray Evernham

The more aerodynamics become involved, the more Dodges seem to suffer,

Diane Siri

I've accomplished most of the things I set out to do. It just seems like the right time to make a transition.

Rick Dickson

Somebody said it was a week ago Sunday this all began, ... It seems like many years ago.

Kenny Chesney

now he seems to think he can tell Renee what to do, what to wear, where to go and who to see.

David Bauer

Sometimes you don't seem real sure about your answers. I just want to make sure that what you've told us you are sure about.

Matt Foy

It was unbelievable. Everything just seemed to click. It seems like everything I did went right.

Aaron Miles

It was a long possession. It seemed like 20 seconds.