Famous Quotes & Sayings

Uma Thurman

Life sweeps you up. Some people resist a lot. I probably haven't resisted very much.

Uma Thurman

I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.

Umberto Eco

To imagine secret societies and conspiracy is a way not to react to the social and political life. Because you say, "We don't know who they are. We cannot react without reasoning." So it is a way to keep people far from the political environment.

Umberto Eco

There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics.

Richard Dawkins

I am passionate about truth and passionate about clarity, and I don't regard myself as particularly militant or aggressive. I simply wish to discuss what is true and to listen to evidence and put evidence forward to other people and have a sensible, sane, moderated argument.

Richard Dawkins

I find that religion really does motivate people to do horrible things because they have this passionate faith in whatever their religion happens to be, and it teaches them that the other religion is the wrong one.

Richard Dawkins

Some people find clarity threatening. They like muddle, confusion, obscurity. So when somebody does no more than speak clearly it sounds threatening.

Richard Dawkins

Offense is what people take when they can't take argument.

Richard Dawkins

Isaac Asimov's remark about the infantilism of pseudoscience is just as applicable to religion: 'Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold.' It is astonishing, moreover, how many people are unable to understand that 'X is comforting' does not imply 'X is true'.

Roelof Botha

Money was invented for a reason. We've seen people try to use beans, etc. and it doesn't work.

Roelof Botha

You don't want to be the site that people should use. You want to be the site they can't stop using.

Rodney Mullen

Do what you love and try not to look at what other people occupy themselves with. Most people seem restless and bounce around too much to focus or even pay attention enough to themselves to figure out exactly what they really do love, as opposed to what the people that surround them are doing.

Rodney Stark

People value religion on the basis of cost, and they don't value the cheapest ones the most. Religions that ask nothing get nothing.

Roger Ailes

You better be able to defend it after the attack - so don't stretch it. In other words, if the guy's guilty of A and B, don't make him guilty of A, B, and C. That's what a lot of people do.

Roger Ailes

I would advise people occasionally to take the media on, but only when you know it's a manufactured product and not a news interview.

Roger Ailes

There's something about the American people: They have such an innate sense of fairness that the red light goes on and the bells go off the second you approach that line. Any kind of personal attack is verboten. You shouldn't do it; it's not worth it.

Roger Ailes

The thing you always have to remember is, you look at people and they might look like a failure but there's often a narrow thing they do very well.

Robin Tunney

Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters

Robin Tunney

The Craft was what it was. People who respond to that movie respond to it really strongly.

Robin Tunney

People do eventually see something that's quality.

Robin Tunney

People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there

Robin Williams

Cable is not bound because people pay for it. It's literally a choice, that's the operative word. If you don't like the language, if cocksucker offends you, then turn it off.

Robin Williams

Cocaine for me was a place to hide. Most people get hyper on coke. It slowed me down. Sometimes it made me paranoid and impotent, but mostly it just made me withdrawn.

Robin Williams

What's true in our minds is true, whether some people know it or not.

Robin Williams

I have no desire to go anywhere near drugs. People say, "Aren't you tempted?" No, because of the ridiculousness of it.

Robin Williams

People would say I never censor. As Billy Crystal says, 'I don't have that button.'

Robin Ince

We very quickly forget about the wonderful things we've got. People lose their excitement because there's too much. Basically we're experiencing nothing, because everything is available to us.

Robin Ince

Science is very cross-generational; you're not just aiming it at twentysomethings, or eightysomethings. Every town's got a really broad selection of people and age groups interested in science.

Robin Givens

I'm one of the nicest, most fair people I know.

Robin Gibb

Losing people makes you realize you've got to grab life - not put things off.

Robin Gibb

I don't like lifts and will walk up 20 flights of stairs if I have to. Crowded rooms make me uncomfortable, too, although I can sing to a stadium full of thousands of people no bother.

Robert Wagner

I was spawned by some pretty good people in this business - Mr. Astaire, Mr. Tracy. They stopped and took their time to talk to people.

Robert W. Service

The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.