Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

History is not history unless it is the truth.

Aleister Crowley

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Aldous Huxley

Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

Hari Kondabolu

I'm not a Republican, but I was one once - when I was 7 years old. Not my fault. The symbol of the Republican Party is an elephant, I'm a Hindu - I was confused.

What we're trying to do is prepare adults and raise the level of our high school skills.

Albert Pujols

I know I'm good when I'm hitting the ball the other way - that's Albert Pujols.

E. M. Forster

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

Dolores Huerta

That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.

Anthony Mackie

I'm definitely not a muscle builder or a guy that's interested in being a muscle builder. It feels good to get back down to a normal size. Not like a hipster size or a buff-guy size, but just a normal, 34-waist guy.

Christy Mathewson

Anybody's best pitch is the one the batters ain't hitting that day.

Andrew Sullivan

Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him to offer a videotaped false confession... are now the techniques the Bush administration is using to gain "intelligence" about terror networks. How is it possible to know that everything John McCain once said on videotape for the enemy was false, because it was coerced, and yet assert that everything we torture out of terror suspects using exactly the same techniques, is true?

Daniel Day-Lewis

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

Dan Chaon

A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.

We have athleticism, speed, everything. If we're hitting on all cylinders, we can go far.

We haven't been hitting all year long and I don't know why right now. That has to change.

Aldous Huxley

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

The practices have been highly intense and the kids have been very focused. They have prepared to be here, and they want to make the most of the opportunity.

Bob Riley

Those being evacuated just need to make sure they reach higher ground.

We are in for higher prices than we had through the 1990s.

We are doing pretty well right now. We got all the tricks we need, we just need to concentrate on hitting now.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

You do not lead by hitting people over the head-that's assault, not leadership.

Rita Rudner

I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen

Rick Perlstein

No historical analogies are exactly precise.

Robert Ballard

You don't let a historic site rot.

Rob Pike

When there is no type hierarchy you don't have to manage the type hierarchy.

Swami Vivekananda

Music alone can take you to the Highest!

Simon Cowell

I actually don't understand a word Paula's saying anymore. It's like a new language.

Sonia Rykiel

I was influenced by the hippie movement in San Francisco and by the feminist movement, which had arrived in Paris.

Roger Taylor

I like Target. I like the ones in the Midwest, personally. We don't really have those in England yet.

Thomas Carlyle

History is the distillation of rumour.

Tommy Lasorda

My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.

Steven Biko

The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

Sam Mendes

There have been screenwriters who I'm sure would gladly kill me, because I've been very fast and loose with their work, because I felt like it wasn't up to my high standards. I would push and pull it on set, and make changes all the time. But then when you're working with an original screenplay, my theater instincts kick in, and I suddenly become very keeper-of-the-words.