Famous Quotes & Sayings

Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things.

Paulette Goddard

He who accepts the unaltered philosophy of another is as ludicrous as he who donshis neighbor's hat, and infinitely more ridiculous.

George MacDonald

Philosophy is really homesickness.

George Jones

Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it's not the right way but wrong's what I do best.

Emanuel Celler

Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

Emanuel Swedenborg

The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.

Elvis Presley

My philosophy of life is simple: I need someone to love, something to wait and do something.

Elvis Presley

Never wait for tomorrow, what if tomorrow never comes?

Elvis Presley

What's the good of reaching 90, if you waste 89?

Elizabeth Gilbert

Well, I always tried to look nice and be feminine even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery by looking miserable yourself. That's my philosophy. This is why I always wore makeup and jewelry into the jungle-nothing too extravagant, but maybe just a nice gold bracelet and some earrings, a little lipstick, good perfume. Just enough to show that I still had my self-respect.

John Crowe Ransom

And if no Lethe flows beneath your casement, And when ten years have not brought full effacement, Philosophy was wrong, and you may meet.

John Constable

Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered as a branch of natural philosophy, of which pictures are but the experiments?

John Burroughs

One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.

John Burroughs

Natural history is a matter of observation; it is a harvest which you gather when and where you find it growing. Birds and squirrels and flowers are not always in season, but philosophy we have always with us. It is a crop which we can grow and reap at all times and in all places and it has its own value and brings its own satisfaction.

Joel Silver

Press conferences are good. I have my own philosophy about press conferences. I usually think that when they don't like the movie, they ask about other things.

Joel Salatin

A farm includes the passion of the farmer's heart, the interest of the farm's customers, the biological activity in the soil, the pleasantness of the air about the farm -- it's everything touching, emanating from, and supplying that piece of landscape. A farm is virtually a living organism. The tragedy of our time is that cultural philosophies and market realities are squeezing life's vitality out of most farms. And that is why the average farmer is now 60 years old. Serfdom just doesn't attract the best and brightest.

Joel Salatin

We don't need a law against McDonald's or a law against slaughterhouse abuse--we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse.

Lou Rawls

I want to be happy and free, living and loving for me.

Louis Althusser

Without claiming to be exhaustive, I maintain that every philosophy reproduces within itself, in one way or another, the conflict in which it finds itself compromised and caught up in the outside world.

Louis Althusser

One of the goals of philosophy is wage theoretical battle. That is why we can say that every thesis is always, by its very nature, an antithesis. A thesis is only ever put forward in opposition to another thesis, or in defence of a new one.

Louis Althusser

Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.

Lou Reed

Underachievers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose except your fright.

Lou Reed

The only thing constantly changing is change, and change is always changing for the worse.

Lou Reed

I want the principles of a timeless muse, I want to eradicate my negative views.

Lou Reed

The injuries we do in kind are visited upon us often. In the science of the mind, trying hard to move a shadow.

Lou Reed

Life's like a mayonnaise soda.

LL Cool J

Money is small and the soul stands tall. All those who don't realize this, fall.

Lucy Larcom

Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.

Lou Holtz

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

John Fogerty

Mr. Greed, why do you have to own everything that you see?

Jonathan Krohn

I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument - that's the kind of stuff I want to do.

Jonathan Frakes

One of my philosophies as a director is to listen to other people's great ideas because they'll help make you better.

John Irving

Imagining something is better than remembering something.