Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Reeve

We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.

Amos Bronson Alcott

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.

Anthony Eden

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

Anna May Wong

Every time your picture is taken, you lose a part of your soul.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

And when midst fallen London, they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humbled pride the lesson must By Time's slow finger written in the dust.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy ...

Angela Davis

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

Alvin Ailey

We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work.

Anne Sexton

Women tell time by the body. They are like clocks. They are always fastened to the earth, listening for its small animal noises.

Anne Sexton

I tied down time with a rope but it came back. Then I put my head in a death bowl and my eyes shut up like clams. They didn't come back.

Anna Freud

It is there all the time.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

D. H. Lawrence

Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.

D. H. Lawrence

The living moment is everything.

D. H. Lawrence

What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time!

Conrad Hilton

To some degree, you control your life by controlling your time.

Conrad Aiken

Time in the heart and sequence in the brain-- Such as destroyed Rimbaud and fooled Verlaine. And let us then take godhead by the neck-- And strangle it, and with it, rhetoric.

David Zucker

I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful.

David Zucker

The only one that got through was Jimmy Walker, because he plays the gas station attendant. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just that we were kind of purists at the time, and we didn't want any comedians.

David Lloyd George

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

Curtis LeMay

I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.

Confucius

Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.

Daniel Webster

When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood.

Andre Weil

Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced . . . the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously . . . this feeling may last for hours at a time, even for days. Once you have experienced it, you are eager to repeat it but unable to do it at will, unless perhaps by dogged work. . . .

Andre Maurois

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Ambrose Bierce

UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.

Ambrose Bierce

OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.

Ambrose Bierce

IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.

Ambrose Bierce

EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of no effect.

Ambrose Bierce

PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.

Ambrose Bierce

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.