Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Simon

People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing...Sounds of Silence.

Robert Morgan

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

Robert Morgan

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

Richard Dawkins

How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.

Orson Scott Card

You take a step, then another. That's the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it's a remaking of your own mind.

Orson Scott Card

Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.

Orson Scott Card

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

Orson Scott Card

I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.

Orson Scott Card

The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.

Orson Scott Card

A broken clock is right two times a day.

Ram Dass

At first you think that your sadhana Is a limited part of your life. In time you realize that Everything you do is part of your sadhana.

Ram Dass

The interesting question is, how do you put yourself in a position so that you can allow ‘what is’ to be. The enemy turns out to be the creation of mind. Because when you are just in the moment, doing what you are doing, there is no fear. The fear is when you stand back to think about it. The fear is not in the actions. The fear is in the thought about the actions.

We were well-prepared. It took us a week to get ready.

We can't talk about win streaks. We just don't talk about it. We don't acknowledge it. We just keep rolling.

We can't put a trigger on it, why it happened.

Steve Greene

We can't overpower teams. But this team is a little smarter, a little more selective. It has to be.

Peter Gade

We have been runners-up for so many times, this time we wanna win it.

We really didn't have a play at first, and we shouldn't have thrown the ball.

Roger McDowell

We don't always talk baseball. I want to know everything about these guys. I feel that if I know them, I can be a better coach.

Jonathan Edwards

It's all about training and rhythm and getting it right on the day.

Kurt Vonnegut

All the new technology seems redundant to me. I was quite happy with the United States mail service. And, I don't even have an answering machine, for God's sake.

Kurt Vonnegut

Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally.

Kurt Vonnegut

Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.

Kurt Vonnegut

Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.

Kurt Vonnegut

Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.

Kurt Vonnegut

Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.

Vandana Shiva

I've just been told that Nestle has taken out patents on the making of pullao. (Pullao is the way we make our rice in India, with either vegetables or meat or whatever.) Before you know it, every common use of plants will be patented by a Western corporation.

William Shakespeare

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

And yet by heaven I think my love as rare / as any that she belie with false compare Sonnett CXXX, ll, 13-14

Arthur C. Clarke

We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.

Katherine Anne Porter

Even St. Teresa said, "I can pray better when I'm comfortable," and she refused to wear her haircloth shirt or starve herself. I don't think living in cellars and starving is better for an artist than it is for anybody else.

Karen Allen

You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.

Karen Armstrong

So, we think about God far to easily and that's because of a lot of social, intellectual, and scientific changes that have taken place in the western world and that has made God very problematic for a lot of people.