Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Johanson

We are placed in the genus of Homo, which is Latin for man - Homo sapiens: supposedly wise men. I sometimes think - wonder - whether we really are wise men.

Yunus Emre

If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come?

Idina Menzel

That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.

In the late 1960s, red and the low green LEDs and the infrared semiconductor lasers had already been developed, but there was no prospect of practical blue light emitters, even in the '70s.

Ezra Taft Benson

Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.'

Esther Rolle

I ruffle a lot of feathers. And I'm also selective - that makes you a troublemaker. But so be it. I laid a cornerstone for black actors, and that makes me happy.

A.J. Hawk

Yeah, but I don't think they would respect me if I just laid down and not play hard.

Jane Fonda

Yeah, but I can look at it now and laugh at it, and find it very charming,

We are kind of in la-la land here. What are we doing here?

James Madison

Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a law should be so?

Rudy Gay

We're a tough team, but a lot of teams play us tough because of that. Everybody's playing like it's their last game, and technically, it is.

Bill Rancic

I would love Giuliana small, medium, large or extra large and I will love her no matter how much weight she gained.

Anne Hutchinson

I am called here to answer before you, but I hear no things laid to my charge.

Angela Ahrendts

Store windows are like landing pages on the website.

There is a very steep learning curve, even for someone as versed in constitutional law as Roberts is.

Damien Hirst

There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way to the bank.

Kevin Kelly

Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other.

Those were significant strides forward. But that was just laying the groundwork.

Penny Marshall

I want you to laugh and cry. That's what I do.

We'll pick up trash first. If labor is available, we'll do more.

We have the labor. What we're going to need is the materials.

Nick Hardwick

We didn't have many big runs last year. He's back. He's healthy. If we can keep him that way. .Ê.Ê.

Michael Brown

We are meeting every request that we get from the state, ... Late Edition.

We are making arrangements to sell everything. The idea is to pay mortgage holders off (and) get as much money as I can to people who supplied labor and material.

Xerox has pretty much stepped on its own toes in a way, by implementing a number of restructurings all at one time last year.

Abel Ferrara

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

Aaron Sanchez

Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.

Aaron Klug

The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

A. J. Liebling

It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

A. Whitney Brown

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

A. R. Ammons

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

Abby Elliott

I want to make people laugh.

Abbie Hoffman

Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.