Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tommy Russell

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

Truman Capote

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

Rhea Perlman

The secret to success is to try to never figure that out.

William Lyon Phelps

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

Will Durant

Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.

Robin Wasserman

I guess that's the secret. It would never have occurred to Lia to want to escape -- but then she gets kicked out. Best thing that ever happened to her? I'm not sure she would say yes, because obliviousness tends to be rather pleasant, but once you realized you've been bolivious, there's no turning back. You can't un-know what you know. You know?

Sarah Dessen

instead, we just sat there, together but really apart, watching a show about a stranger and all her secrets, while keeping our own to ourselves, as always.

Zach Braff

Incognito mode? What do they have to hide? Zach Braff doesn't have anything to hide - Zach Braff lays it all out there for everybody to see. That is Zach Braff's secret to Zach Braff's success.

Wilferd Peterson

The secret of being more vitally alive is to be more aware. Starting today, from this moment, become aware of awareness!

Albert Einstein

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

Samuel Beckett

And all these questions I ask myself. It is not in a spirit of curiosity. I cannot be silent. About myself I need know nothing. Here all is clear. No, all is not clear. But the discourse must go on. So one invents obscurities. Rhetoric.

Pema Chodron

Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we ever have.

Haruki Murakami

Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.

Emeril Lagasse

I had a fierce curiosity about this food thing.

Caroline Kennedy

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Henry James

She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.

John Dryden

He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.

John Mason Brown

God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less than the large is the mainspring, the dynamo, the jet propulsion of all complete living.

Richard Hofstadter

It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society values in him...

Robert M. Pirsig

Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.

Walter Wriston

The information revolution has changed wealth. Intellectual capital is far more important than money.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.

Jorge Luis Borges

I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the stuff he's turning out.

Joni Mitchell

I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it.

Kurt Andersen

TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular.

James Anthony Froude

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

Henry A. Kissinger

Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.