Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Nasmyth

In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam.

James Mill

Of the laws of nature, on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences, is the necessity of labor for obtaining the means of subsistence, as well as the means of the greatest part of our pleasure.

James Mill

If nature had produced spontaneously all the objects which we desire, and in sufficient abundance for the desires of all, there would have been no source of dispute or of injury among men; nor would any man have possessed the means of ever acquiring authority over another.

James Meredith

Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.

James McGreevey

To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.

James Mark Baldwin

The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.

James Marsden

Love is patient, love is kind, love means slowly losing your mind.

Emily Dickinson

When I state myself, as the representative of the verse, it does not mean me, but a supposed person.

Emeli Sande

The focus is on singer/songwriters now rather than huge shows. I mean, of course there's always a place for that too.

Emeli Sande

I mean, there'll always be room for big productions and everything but it's good to see the other side.

Emeril Lagasse

I mean, if you love what you do-whether you're an auto mechanic or you sew clothes or you cook-it's all about personal passion and love that really makes the thrust to the level that you want to get it to.

Emeril Lagasse

Being a food show and being me, I always kicked it up a notch, which means I would always elevate the spice level or the complexity of a particular dish. So, it was always like we're going to kick this up a little bit.

Emeril Lagasse

Those other 10 o'clock shows that come on, all you get from them is headaches and nightmares when you go to bed! At least we give you food, know what I mean?

Elliott Smith

Everything means nothing to me

Ellen Pompeo

I think for any actor to say they don't like attention is ridiculous. Of course we love attention. But getting attention is different than pretending the attention means something.

Ellen Page

It's just something we're talking about and thinking about all the time, reflecting on our privilege - the privilege of what it means even be able to travel.

Ellen Page

And I've shot in Prince Edward Island winters, I mean, I've shot in some intense, intense temperatures.

Ellen Page

I am a feminist and I am totally pro-choice, but what's funny is when you say that people assume that you are pro-abortion. I don't love abortion but I want women to be able to choose and I don't want white dudes in an office being able to make laws on things like this. I mean what are we going to do - go back to clothes hangers?

Ella Fitzgerald

Coming through the years, and finding that I not only have just the fans of my day, but the young ones of today - that's what it means, it means it was worth all of it.

A minute or two doesn't mean much in the scheme of things unless it's your minute or two.

Scott Ritter

An ACOD means that it's expunged from the record, as if it never happened,

Elaine Stritch

I always say, 'If you can't give a reason for the banana peel being in the alley, then don't have the comic slide over it.' Do you understand what I mean? First explain how the banana peel got there quickly. And then there's a reason for all the comedy.

Elayne Boosler

For a single woman, preparing for company means wiping the lipstick off the milk carton.

Edward Thorndike

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

Edward T. Hall

We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.

Edward Burns

I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles.

Edward Coke

That Francis Bacon retains his reputation gained, is not strange to any that knows him. The unusual words wherewith he had spangled his speech, were rather gracious for their propriety than strange for their novelty, and like to serve both for occasions to report and means to remember his argument. Certain sentences of his , somewhat obscure, and as it were presuming upon their capacities will, I fear, make some of them rather admire than commend him. In sum, all is as well as words can make it, and if it please Her Majesty to add deeds, the Bacon may be too hard for the Cook.

Edward Coke

The Common lawes of the Realme should by no means be delayed for the law is the surest sanctuary, that a man should take, and the strongest fortresse to protect the weakest of all, lex et tutissima cassis.

Edward de Bono

Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.

Edward de Bono

We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.

Edward Bach

Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt.

Edward Bond

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas

Edward Albee

Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.