Famous Quotes & Sayings

Megan Smith

We have two boys, and one of our kids is much more interested in history and stories, so if you want him to do some calculations about lenses, you would start talking to him about Galileo... Then he would be into the lenses, but if you just start talking to him about lenses, he might not stay with you.

We just didn't have it as a high priority,

Scott Stossel

I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life.

Rory Stewart

In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition.

Paul Bettany

Yeah, I love history and I loved it as a kid.

Patrick Swayze

I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.

Mao Zedong

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

Magic Johnson

I try to hire people I don't have to motivate. But I do motivate the people working with and for me.

We had our break-out quarter in that second period. We had been stuck at about $8 million in quarterly revenue, and then in the second quarter we hit $11.6 million.

We have this long history of avant-garde work or at least nontraditional works.

Pat Robertson

We were sort of hiding the congressmen. They wouldn't let Dick Armey and people like that get on the platform.

We want to make history. There's only been one other team who has done it. And who knows how long ago that was.

We want to involve people, to have them research trees and get interested in them. We're not only looking for size, but species that are unique and historic as well.

A. J. P. Taylor

History is the great propagator of doubt.

A. J. P. Taylor

All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.

A. J. P. Taylor

History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

A. N. Wilson

History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.

A. S. Byatt

Novels arise out of the shortcomings of History.

Abbie Hoffman

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.

Abbie Hoffman

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

Adrian Rogers

A mans religion will rise no higher than his concept of God.

Ada Louise Huxtable

Every generation tailors history to its taste.

Today's surprise is not enough to warrant a substantially higher valuation.

Treasuries are going to seek higher yields over the next weeks. The labor market looks quite healthy.

You know what's interesting? There is a much higher percentage of African-Americans at the speed positions than there is in society as a whole. I wonder if that's genetic, or mostly genetic.

Jose Sosa

When I saw Brendan come over the hill in first place, I thought the two other runners who had been with him went the wrong way or something. He was all alone.

River Viiperi

When I first came to New York, I was so bored. My friends were like, 'Do a blog. It's the hip thing to do for male models.'

When I hit the big fish, I started shaking.

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.

We can be very proud. There aren't many times you can set history like that.

We have a fiber-optic line outside our hospital, but we're told we need to hire an IT person to 'manage the line' -- another expense.

We didn't even try to hit the holes. With a slow pitch, you've got all the time in the world to hit a hole.

Sergei Ivanov

We have a history of knowing what Afghanistan is.