Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Miller

We're constantly told that all cultures are equal, and that every belief system is as good as the next. And it led to a kind of - and generally, that America was to be known for its flaws rather than its virtues.

Barbara Walters

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

Seth Shostak

The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God.

Alan Moore

Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and we all thought that comics would be greatly improved if everything was a bit psychedelic like Jim Steranko.

Ron Lewis

We must continue our fight to ensure that Federal, State, and local authorities have the resources and support necessary to combat this growing epidemic. This is a top priority for me and many of my colleagues here in Congress.

Milan Kundera

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Keri Hilson

I know as a consumer I want a story. I want a defining - I don't want just an album full of singles. I want to get to know the artist beyond what everyone else can hear on the radio.

Robert Benchley

There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.

David Hume

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

Elizabeth Bibesco

To some people, the impossible is impossible. One fine day, they wake up in the morning knowing that they will never hold the moon in their hands, and with the certainty, perfect peace descends on them.

Charles Kettering

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

Nat King Cole

The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?

Margaret J. Wheatley

Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others

Solomon Ortiz

This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do.

Paul Cellucci

We are very grateful for what the Ontario provincial government is doing, and for cooperation from provincial and local police forces all across Canada.

Jeff Goodell

To understand how quickly we're cooking the planet, we need good data. To have good data, we need good satellites.

Andrew Bernstein

To believe that your husband, wife, parents, kids, boss, job, bank account, or body is even partly responsible for your emotions, to think that there are bullets 'out there' that you have to contend with, that there are stressful life events to overcome, is to miss something vital.

Bernard Baruch

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Eric Braeden

There's no one more willing to do something than an actor when it comes to perfecting a scene.

Lydia Lunch

To be in a band, at least according to the rules of rock in the 1970s, one must know how to play an instrument. But rather than waste time solving that problem, No Wavers ignored it. The point was simply to make music, not to learn how first.

Susan Minot

The teenager's room is her cave. It is here she can meet herself, undistracted by the new hassles life is making for her. Here, she can reflect.

Ignatius of Loyola

True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.

Tom Odell

I think I subconsciously put myself in these situations where the girlfriend isn't pleased with me. I'm useless as a boyfriend. That's how I managed to write all these songs.

Paul Ryan

There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in health care. Reform should address government-imposed inequities and barriers to true choice and competition.

Nick Nolte

We're very reluctant to change, even though we know that all things change, and especially our relationships are just determined to change.

Peter Steele

We're the only species who hunts for sport.

William H. Macy

The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night.

Timothy Simons

There is a part of me that really just thinks it would be so funny to see the 'Veep' characters in 'Game of Thrones.'

Lauryn Hill

We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.

Brian Skerry

Under the snowcapped mountains of Fiordland National Park, freshwater streams empty into the saltwater fiords, creating a unique ecosystem. This is a heavily wooded park, so the water in the streams is stained with tannin, a substance found in plants that makes clean water seem dirty, though it isn't.

Andre Maurois

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

Fredrik Bajer

To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter.

Leonard Slatkin

To my mind and ear, there is simply nothing that compares to the musical sophistication of a late Beethoven, Bartok, Schubert or Brahms work for minimal forces.

Tom Peters

I know it sounds crazy, but you've got to let what you're going to do find you, rather than you pursuing it.

James Cameron

There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest.

Theodor Adorno

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

Margaret Cho

The power of visibility can never be underestimated.

Carl Jung

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Brunello Cucinelli

To sum it all up, the objective of my life has been to give work a moral and economic dignity.

Paul Hawken

Trees are being saved because of the Kindle.

Ralph Bakshi

They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.

Eric Topol

The stethoscope for listening to the heart is over. It's obsolete.

Tom Berenger

We had training camp for a week, and we used the actual military drills of that period. We didn't have to work out much after hours, because going up and down hills all day was a good workout in itself.

Lisa Randall

I actually like seeing how the world - trying to figure out how the world works, how it all fits together. Also, it makes me happy when I feel like things are consistent, when there's some sort of order to the universe.

Chen Shui-bian

We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution.

Alfred Adler

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.

Alan Perlis

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

Henry David Thoreau

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do best or most perfectly is what we have most thoroughly learned by the longest practice, and at length it falls from us without our notice, as a leaf from a tree.

Cliff Stearns

The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes.

Eric Whitacre

With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the text - when I'm doing it right - acts as the perfect 'blueprint', and all the architecture is there. The poet has done the heavy lifting, so my job is to find the soul of the poem and then somehow translate that into music.