Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Colin Greenwood

I think the biggest problem we have is taking too long over things. Not in terms of getting it right, but sometimes we do things quickly that are really good.

Colin Farrell

I count 'Underworld 4′ as my training period for 'Total Recall.' I do think it was hard because I didn't realize how tired I was. It is quite a lot to sustain that kind of physical work over nine months altogether and by the end of it, I definitely felt like I had aged quite a bit in that year.

Colin Firth

It's entirely to do with personality, I think. There are good directors who talk a lot, bad directors who talk a lot, and good directors who don't say much and vice-versa. It just depends on whether people respond to that personality and whether people have a willingness to do something for them.

Colin Firth

If I'd loved my chemistry teacher and my maths teacher, goodness knows what direction my life might have gone in. I remember there was a primary school teacher who really woke me up to the joys of school for about one year when I was ten. He made me interested in things I would otherwise not have been interested in - because he was a brilliant teacher. He was instrumental in making me think learning was quite exciting.

Colin Firth

I often think it can often be very difficult for comedians to revisit the same gag. I think Russell's a bit more than a comedian.

Colin Firth

No matter how much technique you draw on or how much training you have, acting is a mystery.