Famous Quotes & Sayings

e. e. cummings

The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.

Meryl Streep

I do think sometimes when scrolling through the TV and there's something on and I look at it and I think oh, my god. I thought I was fat? What is my problem?

Meryl Streep

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.

Kamal

Without tourists come to me, I'm dead, do you understand?

Bjork

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

Dogen

Handle even a single leaf of green in such a way that it manifests the body of the Buddha. This in turn allows the Buddha to manifest through the leaf.

Dogen

There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of the simplicity of the method. If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Stephen Jay Gould

You put three facts together - that all organisms produce more offspring that can survive, that there's variation among organisms, and that at least some of that variation is inherited - and the syllogistic inference is natural selection.

Stephen Jay Gould

But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each scientist must apply to any problem. The stereotype of a fully rational and objective scientific method, with individual scientists as logical (and interchangeable) robots, is self-serving mythology.

Ann Landers

There are really only three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, ""What happened?

Diane von Furstenberg

Women are strong. We can do it all. But not always at the same time.

I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room.

Bill Engvall

I haven't been really nervous about a gig in a long time.

Amanda Eliasch

I'm not keen on the Internet. I don't trust it.

Herbie Hancock

To my wife, I'm not Herbie Hancock the musician. I'm her husband. When I'm talking to a neighbor, I'm a neighbor. When I vote, I'm a citizen.

Sylvester McCoy

There's always pressure on filming. There's the weather, people, various different technical problems. There's always pressure! And there's never really enough time for anything, really!

Ed Begley, Jr.

I was a typical Valley teen, in smoggy Van Nuys.

Emma Forrest

I'm not rich, though everybody thinks I am.

Graham Moore

I was not a successful TV comedy writer.

Thomas Moore

Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.

We're turning over every rock, so to speak.

Joe Crawford

We're trying to win a championship first. We want to win this one.

We're trying to put it all together this year.

We're trying to get them what they need.

Alex Berenson

Wal-Mart does not do big mergers, though it will buy much smaller competitors in so-called 'tuck-in acquisitions.'

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.

Cole Porter

You all have learned reliance On the sacred teachings of Science, So I hope, through life, you will never decline In spite of philistine Defiance To do what all good scientists do. Experiment. Make it your motto day and night. Experiment. And it will lead you to the light.

Claude Pepper

I' tired of old people being labeled as worthless,useless,toothless and sexless

Clarence Thomas

I have to admit that I'm one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle.

Clemence Poesy

I'm never anywhere for more than three weeks.

Colin Ford

I do try to live a normal life.

Colin Greenwood

I don't think anything's underground anymore. And I think that's a good thing. Everything is up for grabs.

Colin Greenwood

The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.