Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ray Kurzweil

As order exponentially increases, time exponentially speeds up.

Ray Kurzweil

We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body.

Hugo Gernsback

Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.

David Sarnoff

Nobody can be successful unless he loves his work.

Vinton Cerf

I expect that the entertainment industry will have gone through its own convulsion in the same way the telecom industry will have gone through its.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Rick Baker

Grinch had so many people in make up - virtually everybody. We had about 100 people a day for five months. And every day we would use 100 sets of appliances.

Andy Hertzfeld

Working long hours being single helps because your time is yours. Once you have a family your time isn't all yours anymore. Most of the Mac team, we were in our mid-20's, most of us were single, and we were able to essentially devote our lives to it.

Edwin Armstrong

It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

Mark Pagel

You and I probably wouldn't be here if our ancestors hadn't been greedy savages.

Paul Stamets

Through trial-and-error and observable outcomes, our ancestors narrowed the field of edible mushroom candidates to just a few with remarkable, health-supporting properties.

Paul Stamets

Traditionally, our ancestors boiled mushrooms in water to make a soothing tea. Boiling served several purposes: killing contaminants, softening the flesh, and extracting the rich soluble polysaccharides.

Robert Green Ingersoll

It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small.

Alice Walker

It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land.

Jim Murphy

I think my ancestors had to be enormously strong emotionally and very courageous.

Steven Cohen

We're lucky our ancestors came here. It makes you realize the sacrifices they experienced.

Dean Gilmour

There is a feeling of Elizabethan, and there's a feeling of timelessness. My desire is to make the past present, that it speaks to us today. A feeling of ancient ancestors who court and woo each other, so that it's kind of transparent and the audience can enter into this.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HANDKERCHIEF, n. A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble offices about the face and especially serviceable at funerals to conceal the lack of tears. The handkerchief is of recent invention; our ancestors knew nothing of it and intrusted its duties to the sleeve. Shakespeare's introducing it into the play of "Othello" is an anachronism: Desdemona dried her nose with her skirt, as Dr. Mary Walker and other reformers have done with their coattails in our own day --an evidence that revolutions sometimes go backward.

Gina Bellman

I love acting, and I have no desire to direct.

Zoe Kravitz

I like to make music because it's fun to do and it makes me feel good, but I have no desire to be a huge pop singer or anything like that. I just like to make it.

William Clay Ford, Sr.

We have a spirit of working together, and we have a passion for cars. And we also have a great desire to see the Ford name in the forefront of world transportation.

William Wirt

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

Donatella Versace

I'm a feminist. I want to fight, but I don't see many people with this desire to fight for something. Women don't help each other, especially in fashion.

Dennis Ross

Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.

C. S. Lewis

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

Bernard Berenson

I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.

Ashton Kutcher

We all have that desire for something special, something committed. We all want to be The One.

Bruno Cullen

Most of the players we're talking to now, we're talking to freely with the knowledge that Shane could stay or go.

John Milton

Freely we serve / Because we freely love, as in our will / To love or not; in this we stand or fall.

Gary Payton

We're going to have to play freely and open.

Thorne Smith

Without so much as turning a hair I freely admit that I am one of America's greatest realists.

Jane Walsh

Just because you work in one of the hottest restaurants in town does not give you the right to freely dispense the attitude.

Bertrand Russell

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly

Bill Scannell

Never before in the history of our nation has government permission been required to travel freely in our country. It's un-American. It's unconstitutional. It's just plain wrong.

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

I know that I have the right freely to speak and publish my sentiments, subject only to the laws of the land for the abuse of that right.

Paul Conroy

The neighborhoods were littered with construction debris, and paper and plastic trash was strewn about, (not to mention the chickens, goats, donkeys, and cattle, which roam freely throughout),

Felix Magath

We were so sure we were the better team, we were so sure we would score, then we were handed one ourselves.

Bhagavad Gita

Thus handed down in succession the royal sages knew this (Karma-yoga). After a long time the science of Karma-yoga was lost from this earth.

Jack Kirby

I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.

Mary Johnson

He is the same in person as he is in public. He didn't have anything handed to him on a silver platter.

Matt Winkler

I can't lie. That was a huge motivational factor. We talked about not playing Fieldcrest basketball. They handed us our lunch (earlier).

Chris Bell

We've been handed an incredible opportunity and the trick will be getting people to recognize that fact.

Carl Erskine

That's been handed down over the years. That was not uncommon to be said: 'Get me something to work with.

Manuel Luna

More than 30 human remains have been handed over to be identified.

Chris Thompson

She didn't know me. She didn't know my family, ... She just handed me the envelope. She said, 'This is for you and your family,' and she walked away.

Anthony Sanfilippo

Those barges you've seen on Highway 90? They're our casinos.

Robert Ingersoll

You have no right to erect your toll-gate upon the highways of thought

Rick Warren

What you see from the highway will be brick. It's going to be a pretty building.

Gerry Reid

We're operating snowplows in St. John's 24 hours a day. I don't why we couldn't do that on the main highway in our province.

Fritz Todt

In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement.

M. Thompson

I think they should reduce the tax. I realize they use the money for highways, but our highways will be this way when we're long gone.

Brian Riedl

Montana is getting more highway pork, but so is every other state.

Steve Finley

At least in Phoenix, you can get off the main highways and take side streets to where you want to go. In L.A., you can't. You're stuck.

As we were driving, we saw a sign that said ""Watch for Rocks."" Marta said it should read ""Watch for Pretty Rocks."" I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke - just to get out of writing a simple letter! And I thought I was lazy!

Gianni Agnelli

All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.

Granth Sahib

You are Exalted, Unfathomable, Infinite and Invaluable. You are my True Lord and Master. I am Your servant and slave. You are the King, Your Sovereign Rule is True. Nanak is a sacrifice, a sacrifice to You.

Peter Jackson

Where film is infinitely superior to any other medium is emotion and story and character.

Hippolyte Taine

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

John Brunner

I have always found fact infinitely more interesting than myths and falsehoods.

Bill Gates

We'll have infinite bandwidth in a decade's time.

Blaise Pascal

The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.

Eckhart Tolle

Neither concepts nor mathematical formulae can explain the infinite.

Eckhart Tolle

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

Etel Adnan

I love Nicolas de Stael particularly, and my work can remind people of him. But looked at attentively, our works are not similar at all.

Cilla Black

It's true what they say: 'You don't appreciate what you've got until it's gone.' I miss love. I miss being looked after.

Goldie Hawn

Oftentimes, actors are looked at as court jesters. They are not looked at as deep-thinking, smart people who do many other things or have gifts in other areas.

Paul Cullen

In a very simple sense I want everything that's in a work to be there for the reason that it's needed. It's not an ornamentation. It's not there because I thought it looked nice but because it has to be there.

Patricia McBride

I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.

Wayne Hale

We've looked end-to-end at the shuttle to make improvements and make it safer than it has ever been.

Brian Billick

We've looked at these quarterbacks more than we've looked at any position since I've been here,

Don Thomas

We've looked at some (locations) that have potential.

Brad White

We've looked at it long enough. We've got to do something about it.