Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Hader

The nature of 'SNL' is that it's so in-the-moment.

Carl Reiner

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Carl Sagan

The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.

Bill Bryson

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

Benoit Mandelbrot

If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).

Benoit Mandelbrot

The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology of the amorphous. Mathematicians have disdained this challenge, however, and have increasingly chosen to flee from nature by devising theories unrelated to anything we can see or feel.

That was a very sophisticated attack; the nature of it was novel,

Sebastian Horsley

I think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe.

The more you consume, the more insecure you are. It's the nature of the world.

William Shakespeare

Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."

Barry Lopez

When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions. To approach the land as we would a person, by opening an intelligent conversation. And to stay in one place, to make of that one, long observation a fully dilated experience. We will always be rewarded if we give the land credit for more than we imagine, and if we imagine it as being more complex even than language. In these ways we begin, I think, to find a home, to sense how to fit a place.

Martin Parr

Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do so. My conscience is clear.

Sophia Bush

I've always wanted to fight for people who didn't have arms. I've always wanted to speak up for people who don't have a voice. I've always wanted to protect people who couldn't protect themselves. It's my nature. It's my instinct.

E. F. Schumacher

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side

E. F. Schumacher

We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature...

We'll let nature take its course, and time will tell where he winds up.

William Shakespeare

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.

Harold Urey

Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.

Because of the nature of a test, you're doing everything for the first time. And you realize that there is always something nobody's ever thought of.

I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.

It also occurred to me, what's the nature of the emergency? They did not point that out.

Robert Wilson

I think it's just my nature. I can't work on one thing. I have to work on many things.

Jeff Bagwell

I can't just go away. That's not in my nature.

Diane von Furstenberg

Nature is a source of strength.

Devon Werkheiser

I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head.

David Daniels

These mountains were given to us by the Great Chief so that we might never be depressed.

David Suzuki

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.

David R. Brower

True wilderness is where you keep it, and real wilderness experience cannot be a sedentary one; you have to seek it out not seated, but afoot.

David R. Brower

The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.

David R. Brower

We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.

Carter G. Woodson

If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one.