Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicholas Ray

In the theatre, words are eighty to eighty-five percent of the importance of what is happening to you for your comprehension. In film, words are about twenty percent. It's a different figure, but it's almost an opposite ratio. For the words are only a little bit of embroidery, a little bit of lacework.

Niels Bohr

You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.

Niels Bohr

If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.

Niels Bohr

The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.

Niels Bohr

A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it's exact opposite is also true.

Nicolaus Copernicus

For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Among the authorities it is generally agreed that the Earth is at rest in the middle of the universe, and they regard it as inconceivable and even ridiculous to hold the opposite opinion. However, if we consider it more closely the question will be seen to be still unsettled, and so decidedly not to be despised. For every apparent change in respect of position is due to motion of the object observed, or of the observer, or indeed to an unequal change of both.

Nas

Much success to you, even if you wish me the opposite.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.

Martin Starr

I have the reputation for being the opposite of a money-grubber.

Michel Foucault

Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles; but neither are they a lure or a promise that is of necessity betrayed. They are the odd term in relations of power; they are inscribed in the latter as an irreducible opposite.

Mae West

We're intellectual opposites. Well, I'm intellectual and you're opposite.

Michael Jackson

People always say the abused abuse and it is not true. I am totally the opposite.

Mehmet Oz

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

Obviously, that would have energized our guys. It's a play that I know energizes Ruben, and it did just the opposite to him. That was a big momentum-changer in the first half.

Jean-Claude Juncker

Stories are invented: Juncker wants to introduce the euro everywhere or immediately deepen the EU - although I publicly stated the opposite that same day.

Jerry Seinfeld

If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.

Jim Gaffigan

I'm a comedian, which is the opposite of a lifestyle that equips you to be a parent.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

Personal growth and professional development require mostly being treated like an adult, which is pretty much the opposite of what happens in most workplaces. People need to be able to make decisions. To do that effectively, they need information and training in how to use it.

James Caan

Observe the masses and do the opposite

Jacqueline Novogratz

Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.

Gary Zukav

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world.

Jason Mraz

For every action there’s a reaction. And also, for every action there’s an equal and opposite criticism.

Hippocrates

Opposites are cures for opposites.

Herbert Marcuse

Entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

Ezra Levant

It is a perverse faith, in that it reveres the "environment" ahead of people who live in it. It is a most ascetic superstition, in that it demands we live less happily and less freely and with less prosperity - the opposite of, say, the Protestant work ethic that helped build Ontario.

Francis Collins

Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.

Fran Lebowitz

When I was young, I liked romance. But to me, romance is the opposite of domestic life. I just don't want anyone in the apartment, not for longer than a few hours.

George Orwell

Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.

Christian Bale

I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.