Famous Quotes & Sayings

Little Richard

I saw Uncle John with Long Tall Sally, he saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley.

Leonardo da Vinci

Experience never misleads; what you are misled by is only your judgment, and this misleads you by anticipating results from experience of a kind that is not produced by your experiments.

Leonardo da Vinci

It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.

Oscar Wilde

Where there is no love there is no understanding.

Patrick Rothfuss

In brief, worldbuilding is different than setting in my opinion. Setting is a room. A backdrop. It's scenery. But without good worldbuilding, you can't have realistic feeling scenery. You can't have cool, unique backdrops for your story.

Park Chan-wook

You could say that evil is contagious in that we have this mesmerizing mentor in Uncle Charlie who comes into your life. Every person has a seed of evil inside them, and when you come across such a mesmerizing mentor, he is able to successfully turn it into a flower of evil.

Padmasree Warrior

I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.

Lillian Hellman

You can't recover from what you do not understand.

Leon Panetta

Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.

Laurence Fox

I'll say my dad couldn't act to save his life and nor can my uncle, and they'll say I'm the worst actor in the world.

L. Neil Smith

My current novel, Pallas , is all about that culture war - in fact it's been called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Sagebrush Rebellion - and yet what I hear all too often from libertarians is that they don't read fiction.

Pablo Picasso

What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.

Paul Stamets

Growing the mycelium of the Chaga mushroom under laboratory conditions provides an ecologically friendly alternative supply of this unique medicinal mushroom.

Paul Stamets

We need to have a paradigm shift in our consciousness. If we don't get our act together and come in commonality and understanding with the organisms that sustain us today, not only will we destroy those organisms, but we will destroy ourselves.

Paul Stamets

Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health.

Paul Mellon

There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.

Paul Johnson

If anti-Semitism is a variety of racism, it is a most peculiar variety, with many unique characteristics. In my view as a historian, it is so peculiar that it deserves to be placed in a quite different category. I would call it an intellectual disease, a disease of the mind, extremely infectious and massively destructive.

Paul Celan

Read! Read all the time, the understanding will come by itself.

Keanu Reeves

If we're talking about the science fiction or action genres, I've always tried when I could to do them in a way that's not just cookie-cutter - that they bring something fresh or original to it, have some kind of ideas to it. I've been fortunate, in some sense, to do those kinds of movies that are unique.

Kay Redfield Jamison

No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias and depressions. I need both. It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy

Kay Redfield Jamison

You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally.

Kreayshawn

My favorite lie was the online rumor that Bruce Willis was my uncle. That's hilarious.

Oscar Levant

I played an unsympathetic part -- myself.

Oprah Winfrey

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. It shouldn't change you. If you're a jerk, you just get to be a bigger jerk. What fame does is magnify who you are and puts that on a platter for the whole world to see.

Margaret Atwood

One and one and one and one doesn't equal four. Each one remains unique, there is no way of joining them together. They cannot be exchanged, one for the other. They cannot replace each other.

Margaret Atwood

We understand more than we know.

Marcel Duchamp

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

Margaret Cavendish

And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.

Margaret Chan

The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation.

Arlo Guthrie

You don't need spirituality to discover the troubles that come your way. But, it's good to know that troubles are not unique to you alone.

Barbara de Angelis

It is inherent in human consciousness to improve. So there is nothing unique about a people searching for and creating ways to make their life better - all civilizations throughout history have done this. What is unique about us in America is the accelerated rate at which we continually search for novelty and progress.

The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal.

Bruce Springsteen

You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.