Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

Thomas Hearns

Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night.

Bobby Thomson

I was a raw rookie in Arizona during spring training in 1947, but I could do three things. I could run. I had a good arm. And I could hit with power.

Herschel Walker

The majority of the people that I was growing up with were going off into the military. A lot of my classmates thought of going into the military.

Wilt Chamberlain

And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.

Mike Marsh

The current RFID initiative is distorted by the push from the retailers to have a useful system in large volumes in a short time.

Barney Ross

All destroyers at that time had about 200 men. A destroyer was rough riding, and with the rough weather, the sea can be an enemy too.

Britney Spears

When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best. And, that's how me and J. are. When we're in a room together, we don't have to say anything. It's for real.

Britney Spears

I don't want people kissing my butt. If I had a bad show and I know it, don't tell me I had a good show. I hate that. I guess because I'm 17, people think I don't see stuff like that.

Dave Winfield

There are other people like Henry Aaron. Man, just for being the best and breaking records at a time when people didn't want you to.

Richard Fuller

Spaceship Earth: The problem for the passengers is that there is no manual to identify all the parts, and no instructions on how to operate the spaceship.

Nicolas Kiefer

I mean, we're on Earth, but he's playing on a different planet.

Paul Celan

Tall poplars--human beings of this earth!

Pericles

For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb.

Ed Baker

They're like manna from heaven, but they pop up out of the earth.

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.

Duke Ramey

This has been the greatest waste of human resources I've ever seen.

Robert Kiyosaki

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

Robert H. Connelly

If you've had a turbulent August/September period, ... It's less likely you're going to get sucker-punched in October.

Annie Dillard

We wake, if ever at all, to mystery.

Garth Nix

Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.

Henry David Thoreau

Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable.

Robert Sheckley

So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.

William Herschel

... finding that in [the Moon] there is a provision of light and heat; also in appearance, a soil proper for habitation fully as good as ours, if not perhaps better who can say that it is not extremely probable, nay beyond doubt, that there must be inhabitants on the Moon of some kind or other?

William Herschel

He broke through the barriers of the skies.

William Herschel

I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.

William Blake

Execution is the chariot of genius.

Xenophanes

Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better.

Ronald Reagan

I am not a scientist.

William Osler

The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. The workers lose all sense of proportion in a maze of minutiae.