Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Owen

That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.

Richard Jenkins

A Western would be good. I'd love to do a Western.

Richelle Mead

I'd never expected my first time to be in a cabin in the woods, but I realized the place didn't matter. The person did. With someone you loved, you could be anywhere, and it would be incredible. Being in the most luxurious bed in the world wouldn't matter if you were with someone you didn't love.

William S. Burroughs

I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question Why did you start using narcotics in the first place? should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area.

William J. H. Boetcker

If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight.

Will Cuppy

[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be all right. It wasn't.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign,

Richard Rorty

If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?

Warren Buffett

In my opinion, the entire field of investment management, involving hundreds of billions of dollars, would be more satisfactorily conducted if everyone had a good yardstick for measurement of ability and sensibly applied it.

Truman Capote

My yardstick is how somebody treats me.

Jimmy Swaggart

The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures it’s morals

Tim Cleland

This was one of the toughest, if not the toughest, fields we've had.

Ron Atkinson

For me their biggest threat is when they get into the attacking part of the field.

Troy Polamalu

On the field is a place where you can just let it loose and react to everything with violence.

William James

The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.

Sara Sheridan

We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.

W. Richard Stevens

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

Robert Southey

The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service.

Bob Boyle

You used to look out this front window and there was nothing but woods and fields between here and North River Road.

Origen

We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.