Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Alda

Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.

Aristotle

The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.

Alan Bennett

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

Baltasar Gracian

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

Diana Vreeland

Pleasure is everything.

Agnes Repplier

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

David Brooks

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

Nora Roberts

If you don't read for pleasure, you'll lose your edge as a writer.

George Farquhar

The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.

John Pilger

Using the passive voice is always very helpful. Mind you, a lot of that propaganda English emanates from here. The British establishment has always used the passive voice. It's been a weapon of discourse so those who committed terrible acts in the old empire could not be identified.

Mahatma Gandhi

Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

Dmitry Oleynikov

There are people working on things like a pill that can be swallowed to take pictures, but that's passive technology. These robots can actually go in and do something.

Phil Jackson

We talked about how passive they were in the first quarter.

Herman Melville

Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.

Bob Walsh

I thought they turned up the pressure defensively in the second half, and we were too passive with the ball. But that's what you get when you are as young as we are.

Jim Caviezel

I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching it.

Sarah Vaughan

It puts us in a passive place sometimes, but it can also put (women) in a powerful place.

Sean Darks

It's a passive chip. It emits no signal whatsoever. It's the same thing as a keycard.