Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woody Allen

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

William Blake

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?

William Blake

To generalize is to be an idiot.

Samuel Butler

A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning the main aim of his life.

William Cowper

Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.

William Cowper

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

William Cowper

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

Wayne Dyer

Trusting yourself is trusting the wisdom that created you.

Upton Sinclair

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Mark Richt

I would think he is going to roll into the fall as the No. 1 guy. I still haven't seen anything to make me think we shouldn't do that.

Shaquille O'Neal

As a youngster, my mother and father always drilled into my head having something to fall back on. My father was kind of funny. I'd score 40 points. I'd come home and say, 'Look dad, I scored 40.' He'd never have a smile on his face. He'd be like, 'I saw that move you did. What if you'd hurt your knee?'

Steve Pemberton

Last fall was dreadful. I think the market is better now than last fall.

John Davis

I think it's really fallen off people's radar. We don't hear much about it at all.

Robert H. Connelly

The rain may be falling hard outside, But your smile makes it all alright. I'm so gland that you're my friend. I know our friendship will never end.

Billy Andrade

Today, I was (from) Barrington, I was from Fall River, I was from all over southeastern Massachusetts and no one said Bristol,

Rob Thurman

Fall leaves are brilliant with gold and red. You can cup them in your hand and wonder at them, be amazed at their uniqueness and glory. But eventually they are gone, brown, crumbling, scattered on the wind. But the tree remains. The tree is what is important. The tree lives on. That was a difficult knowledge to bear, and an even more difficult life to live. Of course, being the leaf wasn't exactly desirable either.

Richard K. Morgan

Science casts a long black shadow back over who we think we are, and where it falls the temperature falls with it. Its touch is chilly and unforgiving.

Richard Dawkins

I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from?

Tony Stewart

I'm scared of saying something that may get taken the wrong way.

George Best

It has been a long week but things have taken a turn for the best. I am very optimistic.

Richelle Mead

I’ve come to ask you where Seth is.” "Funny,” said Andrea. “We were going to ask you the same thing.” I was taken aback. “How would I know?” They both just stared. "I don’t!

Will Ferrell

I guess ultimately a lot of comedians just wanna be taken seriously.

Robert De Niro

You have to think about one shot. One shot is what it's all about. A deer's gotta be taken with one shot.

Tupac Shakur

Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me don't quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear.

Tracy Chevalier

I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.

Robinson Jeffers

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

Vivien Leigh

When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand.