Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vannevar Bush

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world

Vanessa Paradis

I realize how unique my path has been. And I'm thankful for that.

Vanna Bonta

Understanding precedes peace.

Vanna Bonta

There is no hospitality like understanding.

Vaclav Klaus

By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.

Vaclav Havel

This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique...something truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard.

Vaclav Havel

There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain

Usher

The unique essence of being an artist is dying. Eveything looks the same. Now there’s a formula. And it works. - But it takes away from the reason we do it.

Susan Sullivan

I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area.

Susanna Clarke

Ha!' said the tall man drily. 'He was in high luck. Rich old uncles who die are in shockingly short supply.

Tasha Alexander

It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.

Sophocles

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.

Stephen Lang

I love scenes that are just emotional give and take. By the same token, action sequences are great to do. They have their own unique demands and requirements. So I take it as it comes, and hopefully you can get a good balance of all of that stuff.

Stephen Levine

Understanding is the ultimate seduction of the mind. Go to the truth beyond the mind.

Stephen Malkmus

A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.

Stephen King

sometimes an accident can be an unhappy womans best friend

Stephen King

And if there are no cars or planes, and if no one’s Uncle John is out in the wood lot west of town banging away at a quail or pheasant; if the only sound is the slow beat of your own heart, you can hear another sound, and that is the sound of life winding down to its cyclic close, waiting for the first winter snow to perform last rites.

Stephen King

Little by little, writers develop their own styles, each as unique as a fingerprint.

Sophie Swetchine

By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.

Rush Limbaugh

Another thing the Democrats have grown accustomed to is their candidate is untouchable.

Thomas Malthus

It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.

Thomas Merton

The world as pure object is something that is not there. It is not a reality outside us for which we exist....It is a living and self-creating mystery of which I am myself a part, to which I am myself, my own unique door.

Tony Kushner

A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'

Tony Kushner

Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies.

Tony Danza

The great thing about getting married young like I did and having a child so young is that he gets to know all the relatives. He knew his great-grandmother, and we sat down together and tied down the stories of our uncles and aunts.

Tony Campolo

I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.

Tom Waits

With families and music, you're usually looking for something that can make you unique.

Tom Waits

The Universe is making music all the time.

Steven Spielberg

The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time.

Steven Jackson

There's something unique about me, we just can't figure out what it is.

Steven Holl

Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.

Steven Gerrard

Against Juventus we were massive underdogs, so to beat them was fantastic.

Steve Martin

Now let's repeat the non-conformists' oath: I promise to be different! (audience repeats) I promise to be unique! (audience repeats) I promise not to repeat things other people say! (audience repeats, laughs) Good!