Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Whewell

We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.

William Shatner

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

William James

The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.

Tracy Kidder

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives

Robert Schumann

Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?

Vincent Van Gogh

Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be caught, colour and all, would not be a picture at all, no more than a photograph.

Vinton Cerf

It is just a thing. Whether it is good or bad depends what you do with it. If you don't like what you are doing with it then it is simply a reflection of what you are as an individual, an organisation or a society and that is what you have to fix.

Vinton Cerf

The Internet reflects the societies in which we live, and so the content on the Net and some of the abuses that you see on the Net are reflections of that.

Walt Whitman

Whoever you are, motion and reflection are especially for you, The divine ship sails the divine sea for you.

Sheryl Lee

I was in Seattle and I wanted nothing more than to act, but I was so terrified of it that I couldn't even get myself to an audition. It was miserable.

Sam Jr

He is very athletic. The thing with Sean is that he has so much upside.

Willie Randolph

It could be someone else toward the end of the season who could be the swing guy.

Victoria Gonzales

We're pretty much in the driver's seat for second place now.

Zack Greinke

I was about 20 times smarter before this season started than I am now.

Matt Moore

He's going to be the man. He has everything to be a star quarterback. Sean is going to be a stud.

Richard Hough

That a modern battleship of 48,000 tons would have to defend itself against wood and fabric biplanes with its main armament was a salutary reminder of the changing face of sea warfare.

William Wordsworth

Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.

William Sharp

The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.

Roger Angell

Everyone knows the best volume of the encyclopedia is the one with ships-S.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze - On me alone it blew.

Robert Louis Stevenson

When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

Wilbur Ross

Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.

Saint Augustine

Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

Henrique Capriles Radonski

I'm like a ship captain: I have a woman in every port.

Henry A. Kissinger

Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.

James H. Boren

Most educators would continue to lecture on navigation while the ship is going down.

Jon Heder

Build a rocket ship and leave the earth!