Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

Casey Stoner

I'm very thoughtful, and when I make a decision I usually stick to it.

Carl Jung

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

Carl Jung

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

Carl Jung

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

William Shakespeare

That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.

C. S. Lewis

Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

Maya Angelou

You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.

Maya Angelou

It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.

Cindy Sherman

I had to redo my last house after the pipes burst, and something was lost in the renovation. The soul of the old space was compromised.

Ernest Borgnine

My mother made me do all the housework as a boy. I still do it, even in hotels.

Abdul Latif

We prefer to stay in our house as we still have our second floor. We would leave the house and go to the shelter houses only if the water has already reached roof high.

Sarah Hall

I wander around the house and write in bed, at the kitchen table, by the window, in the yard.

Vinnie Jones

People say, 'I love 'Snatch,' I love 'Lock Stock,' but I want to be more than a movie name. I'd love to be more of a household name.

Nimrat Kaur

Once while vacationing at my grandparent's house in Rajasthan, we were sleeping on the roof and I spotted an object hovering around in the sky - kind of a UFO. It totally spooked me out. I couldn't sleep for days after that.

Lee Brice

When you go to Nashville and start co-writing, you start doing it as a job and the more you do it the better you get. You know if you build houses for 30 years you're better than you were the day you started. You know the ins and outs, you know all the nuances.

Jennifer Aniston

I love seeing a house and thinking about how it should be redone or restored.

Monica Crowley

It is an abuse of power, when you are President of the United States, to use the White House to single out a single news organization, and castigate them and try to delegitimize them.

Webb Simpson

To be honest, I never really wrapped my mind around winning.

Wynton Marsalis

Generally, when I wake up in the morning I set out a series of problems for myself and I write them down, and when I'm sleeping, my mind solves the problems. When I wake up in the morning, I have more clarity on the issue.

Emma Roberts

I read a book a week. I try to keep my mind working.

David Byrne

The city is a body and a mind - a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information.

Carl Gustav Jung

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

David Zayas

To get into another person's mindset and what they are trying to do with their project is a challenge, and it is what I like.

Chris Ware

The first thing I do when I get up is I look out the window. I've been looking at the same image for six years. It's imprinted in my mind like an afterimage template.

Cilla Black

I wouldn't mind being a talent show judge if it didn't run for too long.

Dev Hynes

I don't want to say I hate remixes, because I don't, but I hate what instantly comes to mind now when people say 'remixes.'