Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Maxwell

The view after 70 is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscape of the past. There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters.

James Morrow

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but lack of curiosity would have killed thousands

Kitty Kelley

There's a curiosity factor, but not a fascination like there used to be.

David McCullough

What started me writing history happened because of some curiosity that I had about some photographs I'd seen in the Library of Congress." ()

Claude C. Hopkins

Curiosity is one of the strongest human incentives

Clara Bow

I'm a curiosity in Hollywood. I'm a big freak, because I'm myself!

Daniel Bell

The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.

Alistair Cooke

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

Albert Einstein

Curiosity is its own reason.

James Marsters

Details in the mcguffins had to be worked out, but it was there. It was a good idea. I'm not going to tell you, because I didn't think of it.

Ben Goldacre

Transparency and detail are everything in science.

Raquel Turnbow

Every tenth of a point is important. It's going to take good form, having perfect execution, amplitude, striking the landings. Every detail matters.

Davide Brivio

This was the last test before the end of the season, so the work we've done here will be very important for the remaining six races. We didn't test any big things, just some small details which are important for us.

John Mooney

This was a disgrace. No details were provided to the executive board. (Toussaint) wants us to discuss the details after Christmas.

Alex Winter

With Fever, the film was so made for the screen, and there's so much surround sound that was done for the film - enormous detail paid to that. I wasn't thinking video, because I didn't know how it was going to turn out.

Michael Korda

Very well observed and touching story, wonderful eye for detail and a pleasure to read,

Katie Cook

You don't know how much detail people want you to go into, though,

Patty Shea

There's really nothing to worry about, it's not really the outcome or anything like that. It's really about what's going on the field, and some of the things that I'm really happy about is they're playing the game at a more sophisticated level. It's the details that are going to make the difference.

Al Franken

I'm from the Vietnam generation. I didn't serve.

Cullen Hightower

Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.

David Perlmutter

Gluten is this Generation's Tobacco

Annie Dillard

In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.

Annie Dillard

There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been.

E. F. Schumacher

A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.

Thomas S. Monson

Can we somehow muster the courage and steadfastness of purpose that characterized the pioneers of a former generation? Can you and I, in actual fact, be pioneers [today]?

Susan Sontag

Each generation has to reinvent spirituality.

Simon Le Bon

Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.

Marcel Proust

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

David Hockney

Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

Ted Stevens

The stability of some of the nations principally responsible for supplying oil to the United States can no longer be taken for granted.

Tom Coughlin

Storage is no longer in the background. It's not just nice to have; it's a must-have.

Wes Anderson

Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.

Charles Howell

The shortest 11 can play is 505. I walked it to the back and it was 513, which puts it longer than No. 13.

J. D. Souther

I've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both.

Fernando Lopez

There will no longer be a big eruption. It's releasing pressure.

Rick Clausen

That's kind of been the story of my life. Everything kind of takes a little longer for me in order to be successful.

Michael Holmes

You're planning to be around for a while longer though?

Jack Layton

Bono is no longer supporting the prime minister's position...niether are canadians.

Bill Hornbarger

The big thing on everybody's mind is oil prices.

Toba Beta

A well-trained mind responded to symptoms. An ordinary mind reacted after it happened.

Suze Orman

Sometimes your mind lets you do things with your money that make no sense.

Jane Power

Sad. My God, the state of mind he was in.

Robert Merriweather

Preparing the mind for the work week grind...

Louis Graham

Quite frankly, I don't think Wayne Williams is responsible for anything, ... I don't think he did anything. I made up my mind with that 20 years ago, and I still feel that way.

Margaret Atwood

Put yourself in a different room, that's what the mind is for.

Sidney Crosby

It would be nice to win it, but it's not on my mind a lot.

Susan Collins

These raise some very serious questions in my mind about the repairs.

Mary Roach

I've been writing full-time since about 1984 - mostly magazine features and columns.

John Carr

You mostly come to these things to support other musicians,

Ernie Els

Ernie told her there was no need to wait, as he thought she was ready to turn pro, ... He spoke mostly to Michelle, but also had a word with her dad, whom he told the same thing.

Hermann Maier

The training is going very, very well. I think I've got just the right formula. At the present time, I'm working mostly on the thighs.

Sigmar Polke

Light is a metaphoric thing. There is green light and red light. Then there is black light, which is mostly danger.

Jeremiah Jeremiah

a pervasive problem in our society of how people look at older workers.

Bill Jones

We did not have many seniors, so most of our team is returning. We're a year older and we should be bigger, stronger and faster.

Trey Aby

We'll still play some of the older teams. But with what we did this year, some things are going to change.

Corey Clark

Older women have always been attracted to me.

Keith Richard

Getting old is a fascinating thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Joss Whedon

I had older brothers, and I don't think there's anything worse than an older brother. They pretty much told me the end of everything they got to see before I did.

Casey Self

My partner is 11 years older than me, and I'd like for him to be able to retire.

Kim Weston

I don't know, the older I get, the more complicated I think I get, which is a hindrance.

Venus Williams

I will always be the older sister. That's never going to change.

Joe Torre

Jorge's struggled all season. I think this was very satisfying for him.

John Winn

It will satisfy curiosity, probably, more than anything else,

Erno Rubik

It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade.

Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi

How can you satisfy your hunger while your neighbor is spending the night hungry?

Cliff Floyd

A really big at-bat for us, ... The kind of at-bat that turns game.

LeAnn Rimes

Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I see a child, then I look and see a woman who should be turning 60.

Gary Thomas

This is overreaction. It won't make a difference. They'll turn 18, but they'll still be inexperienced.

Steve Foster

this could turn into another Waco ... we don't want to get into that.

James Tate

We did make a turn for the better at some point.

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

Antonin Scalia

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

Chan Gailey

Don't you think they should have to turn off their TV sets?

Kris Britton

And they went in there and turned it up.

Baruch Spinoza

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

Auguste Comte

After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made by Condorcet, proceeding on the views suggested by his illustrious friend Turgot.

Ayelet Waldman

I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.

Ayn Rand

Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.

Boyd Rice

People who consider themselves political, who follow political developments most rigorously, are often those who view the political process with the greatest lack of perspective.

Juvenal

He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]

Carter Burwell

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

Alain de Botton

We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.

Arthur C. Clarke

What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view.