Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baruch Spinoza

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

Ayelet Waldman

I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.

Carter Burwell

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

Billy Corgan

My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am.

Adam Carolla

I have feelings that are to the right, and I have feelings that land on the left side of the aisle. The thing is if you have 10 views that land you on the left side of the aisle and two views that land you on the right side of the aisle, then people just put you on the right side of the aisle. I'm not sure why.

Ann Coulter

Since Vice President Al Gore is constantly making things up, it should come as no surprise that he wants Supreme Court justices who will do the same. As Gore put it, he will appoint judges who view the Constitution as a 'document that grows'.

Donella Meadows

Mesarovic and Pestel are critical of the Forrester-Meadows world view, which is that of a homogeneous system with a fully predetermined evolution in time once the initial conditions are specified.

Desmond Tutu

There is room for everyone; there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view.

Chuck Klosterman

There are two ways to look at life. The first view is that nothing stays the same and that nothing is inherently connected, and that the only driving force in anyone's life is entropy. The second is that everything pretty much stays the same (more or less) and that everything is completely connected, even if we don't realize it.

Simon Smith

What we try to look for is more the trend than the exception. There is a lot of liquidity in the market, and the economy is well on its way. It's difficult to see too many clouds on the horizon at the moment.

Darren Criss

I'm on cloud nine.. i wouldn't even say cloud nine... more like cloud ten... cloud nine was old news.

Alice Meynell

The cloud controls the light ... It is the cloud that, holding the sun's rays in a sheaf as a giant holds a handful of spears, strikes the horizon, touches the extreme edge with a delicate revelation of light, or suddenly puts it out and makes the foreground shine.

William Shakespeare

Every cloud engenders not a storm.

Robert Frost

Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.

T. S. Eliot

Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.

Rudolf Arnheim

A cloud can look like a camel, but a camel is unlikely to look like a cloud. This is so because the signifier must be able to stand for the whole category of the signified. The cloud looks like all camels, but no camel looks like all clouds.

Thomas Brooks

Hope can see heaven through the thickest clouds.

Victor Hugo

Algebra applies to the clouds.

Chuck Palahniuk

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

Angie Martinez

Always keep things in perspective.

Mark Zuckerberg

You grow more when you get more people's perspective.

Mary E. Pearson

I suppose you're right about some perspectives. Just a few weeks ago, I thought you were a dickhead.

Michael Dolan

A kind soul knows impoliteness is just preoccupied with distraction.

Jonathan Burns

From our perspective, the transition is going quite smoothly overall.

Brian Smith

From our perspective it would be a positive.

Evan Esar

Compare what you want with what you have, and you'll be unhappy; compare what you deserve with what you have, and you'll be happy.

George Carlin

I actually was a writer who had the ability to perform his own work as opposed to a comedian who wrote his own material. So that really made me happy and changed my whole perspective.