Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Brown

We cannot make rivers whole unless we wholly understand them.

Richard Dawkins

The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues

Rebecca West

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.

Rick Riordan

It is," I said. "And it's not even difficult. But I need your promise on the River Styx." "What?" Dionysus cried. "You don't trust us?" "Someone once told me," I said, looking at Hades, "you should always get a solemn oath." Hades shrugged. "Guilty.

Reinhold Messner

...seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of a framework of bone and a network of arteries, the earth's crust is structured in mountain ridges, river, creeks, and gullies.

William Whipple

The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.

Will Eisner

Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

The revelation that we have everything we need in life to make us happy but simply lack the conscious awareness to appreciate it can be as refreshing as lemonade on a hot afternoon. Or it can be as startling as cold water being thrown in our face. How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we’re really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?

Richard Rohr

Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.

Mark Wilkinson

I think it's a better-kept secret than the Special Forces.

Tommy Russell

I think Ward is one of the best-kept secrets in West Tennessee.

Carl Jung

As above, so below, as within, so without.

Jason Schmidt

I don't know what the big secret is.

Rebecca West

Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause.

Russell Crowe

The secret to riches is the same as the secret to comedy - timing.

Ron Carlson

The big secret is the ability to stay in the room.

Tyler Perry

Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed - for the most part, every family's got them.

Truman Capote

Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.

Tom Hatch

It is not suited either to all kids or all parents. It requires students with considerable curiosity and independence, who come up with and get interested in questions and can sustain some interest in them.

Albert Einstein

It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

William Winwood Reade

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

Richard Powers

The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The curiosity of an honorable mind willingly rests there, where the love of truth does not urge it farther onward, and the love of its neighbor bids it stop; in other words, it willingly stops at the point where the interests of truth do not beckon it onward, and charity cries, Halt!

Samuel Johnson

Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.

Vincent Canby

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

Warren Buffett

Cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.