Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jules Verne

Ah!" I cried, springing up. "But no! no! My uncle shall never know it. He would insist upon doing it too. He would want to know all about it. Ropes could not hold him, such a determined geologist as he is! He would start, he would, in spite of everything and everybody, and he would take me with him, and we should never get back. No, never! never!" My over-excitement was beyond all description.

Jules Verne

It is certain," exclaimed my uncle in a tone of triumph. "But silence, do you hear me? silence upon the whole subject; and let no one get before us in this design of discovering the centre of the earth.

Jules Verne

Until I dicover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep. "My dear uncle-" I began. "Nor you either," he added.

Judith Butler

It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us.

P. D. James

Murder is the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim.

P. G. Wodehouse

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

P. G. Wodehouse

What I'm worrying about is what Tom is going to say when he starts talking." "Uncle Tom?" "I wish there was something else you could call him except 'Uncle Tom,' " Aunt Dahlia said a little testily. "Every time you do it, I expect to see him turn black and start playing the banjo.

Paul Oakenfold

APA is another evolution in my career; they have unique vision and share my goals for the future. I look forward to expanding our horizons together.

Paul Nurse

Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life.

Paul Bowles

One never took the time to savour the details; one said: another day, but always with the hidden knowledge that each day was unique and fatal, that there never would be a return, another time.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.

Martha Graham

There is only one you in all time.

Martha Graham

The unique must be fulfilled.

Marshall McLuhan

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Marshall McLuhan

Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.

Marshall McLuhan

When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.

Mark Goulston

Understanding a person's hunger and responding to it is one of the most potent tools you'll ever discover for getting through to anyone you meet in business or your personal life.

Mark Haddon

He was asking too many questions and he was asking them too quickly. They were stacking up in my head like loaves in the factory where Uncle Terry works. The factory is a bakery and he operates the slicing machines. And sometimes a slicer is not working fast enough but the bread keeps coming and there is a blockage. I sometimes think of my mind as a machine, but not always as a bread-slicing machine. It makes it easier to explain to other people what is going on inside it.

Paul Gray

Muffled lives explode in understatements.

Pau Gasol

I like the fact people consider me unique, one of a kind.

Patrick Lussier

If people enjoy the film, it can be really intriguing to see what created that film, how each one of those unique components came together, who the people are who did it and what it meant to them to do it.

Patrick Marber

I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.

Pat Conroy

I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.

Pat Conroy

One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.

Jurgen Habermas

The task of universal pragmatics is to identify and reconstruct universal conditions of possible mutual understanding.

Julia Quinn

She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years.

Home. It's such a simple word, one I never knew would come to mean as much to me as it has. It once was my dad's house, then my uncle's farm. Mostly it's meant wherever Charlie and I were together. Now, though, it's you. It's your letters, your words. They're the place I go to with my fears, where I find comfort, where I feel safe.

Kjell Magne Bondevik

Each individual is unique. We all have equal worth. Young and old, those who can cope and those who need help.

King Krule

I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines.

King James I

Dr Donne's verses are like the peace of God; they pass all understanding.

Murray Walker

The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.

Myles Munroe

I went from one state of life to another state of life by obeying, understanding, and applying the principles that are laid down in the Bible.

Milton Friedman

The facts never speak for themselves. They have to be interpreted in terms of some understanding of where they come from and what the relation between them is.