Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Ayers

We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you don't have to explain it.

John Keegan

We may have to have a geo-political regrouping or major geo-political changes.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

We met, 'twas in a crowd, and I thought he would shun me.

Robert Burton

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

Robert Falcon Scott

We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end.

Roger Penrose

Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.

Roger Penrose

So what I'm saying is why don't we think about changing Schrodinger's equation at some level when masses become too big at the level that you might have to worry about Einstein's general relativity.

Roger Penrose

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.

Aldous Huxley

Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.

Tom Megeath

Obviously, we can't go back in time and look at the Trapezium when it was still forming, so we try to find younger examples in the sky.

Sven Eriksson

Many times the words I say don't come out in the papers. I could have as many examples as you want.

Joseph Yam

one of the rare examples of a smooth change.

R. Robinson

I don't know why this lady would do it (make false statements), but there are examples of it all the time in our state, country....

Robert Cecil

Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Shyam Selvadurai

I knew I had to write about Canada. I just could not find in literature any examples of the immigrant experience that I've had.

Jill Paton Walsh

I think that novels are tools of thought. They are moral philosophy with the theory left out, with just the examples of the moral situations left standing.

John Blackman

I think some of our older kids aren't being good examples to the younger kids.

Jim Pryor

He will go through some examples of different recreation centers.

Archibald Hill

Many luckless people imagine that romance is dead: some, overcivilised, fondly suppose that there never was romance: a poet tells us that romance is unrecognised though really present: but scientists can meet him daily, walking at large and undisguised in the world.

Phil Flynn

We may look back at the day fondly when we paid $3 a gallon.

Michael Ward

It was as though Mollie had leapt out of the box. It was a romantic gesture for a romantic lady who will always be remembered fondly and with great admiration.

Tom Curley

I now look back fondly at those being the most constructive years for preparing me for life in the real world, ... You have to have pretty thick skin and you have to have big shoulders.

Jeff Kinney

I had an older brother, an older sister and a younger brother, and though I look back fondly on my childhood, I think that when you've got four siblings sharing the same resources and a single kids' bathroom, it's going to get a little tense at times.

David Hume

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

David Hume

Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.

Benazir Bhutto

What is not recorded is not remembered.

Blaise Pascal

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

Kjell Magne Bondevik

Villa Grande has in many ways symbolized an important, but less than pleasant, part of our history.

Tansy Rayner Roberts

History is more interesting than most people think.

Tom Rachman

I went to the University of Toronto to study the history and theory of film, in the back of my mind thinking I'd go to NYU film school and see if I could make a career of it.

Todd Rundgren

I don't have a long history of hit singles of my own. I had a few, and I had a little hot streak in the '70s, but I've had a lot of success producing other people.

Barbara Boxer

Let's not rewrite history, it's too soon for that,

Tiger Woods

No. 7 is one of the narrowest holes on the course, if not the narrowest.

Ken Johnson

I was impressed with our depth. We didn't miss a beat. There's no big holes in (the lineup). That's the key for us.

Brett Bergman

I was so nervous. It seemed like the quickest nine holes I've ever played, it went so fast.

Ernie Els

I wish we could have played 18 holes in these conditions.

Stanley Elkin

Plot is to literature what individual holes are to miniature golf.

George Clooney

What you learn after you're 40 is it's just about plugging up holes in the boat,

Verron Haynes

He was kind of off a little bit. His story had some holes and some leaks.

Charles Braun

Some of the holes won't even be able to be viewed from the start up point.

Retief Goosen

Some of the holes are actually playing shorter than they did last year.

John Grisham

We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories and writing about them, the material is endless.

Janis Joplin

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

Jonathon Hamilton

None of these are material to this transaction.

Bob Newhart

You never know when you'll come upon something and it's going to be fodder for new material.

Richard Palmer

But they have to be encapsulated to be useful in real-world applications. In the past, encapsulation spoiled the very material properties we're after.

Don Brownlee

But the study of these materials will go on for decades.

Edward Abbey

The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.

George Wald

There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

Bikram Choudhury

There's nothing wrong with material things as long as you don't lie, cheat and steal.

Wayne Smith

Seats and papers have come to the surface.

Marcus Trufant

We're not worried about getting the big-time stuff in the papers and magazines. We're just trying to win ballgames.

Saddam Hussein

Why did they take my pen and the papers that I need during the trial.

Lisa Peterson

You have little recourse if the papers don't come.

Ann East

Everyone should have a fireproof box, for one thing, where you can keep valuable papers and photos of your belongings.

Shawn Guest

Some seeds look a little better on papers than others, but on the mat is where it will be determined.

Mohammed Amin

Your papers will be safe and when your turn comes you can talk about it.

James Sanborn

All my high school papers were written in the rare book room.

Irma Cabriales

There may be more; you never know. There are a lot of immigrants, those with papers and those without, here on the Treasure Coast.

Lena Headey

I'm small but quite tough. When incensed, I can swing a punch.

David Harsanyi

Let's be honest: nothing spoils 'The Walking Dead' quite like watching 'The Walking Dead.'

Kate Smith

Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

Stevie Jackson

When I'm making records, I like it to be quite fast. Don't let the band learn it too well.

Bob Hartley

We have a pond, and I've never seen it come up so fast. I haven't seen this much (rain) for quite awhile.

Ruth Asawa

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

E. B. White

She stayed until her shift was over at 6. She's fine, but she was quite shook up.

Rudyard Kipling

She was as immutable as the hills. But not quite so green.

Elizabeth Hardwick

She was extraordinary. She had her own voice and her own tone and her own subject matter. There was no one quite like her in American literature.

Elif Safak

We cannot abandon this rabbit hole for fear of a traumatic encounter with our own culture.

Doug Graham

Someone said to me, "How's your rabbit food?" I said, "Fine." ... "How's your vulture food?"

A. A. Milne

I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.

A. A. Milne

Hallo, Rabbit,” he said, “is that you?” "Let’s pretend it isn’t,” said Rabbit, “and see what happens.

Susanna Moore

When I was nine, I was taught to ride a surfboard in Waikiki by the beach boy Rabbit Kekai.

Two Chainz

Then I put a fat rabbit on a Craftmatic!

Elena Anaya

I can hypnotize rabbits.

Daniel Petrocelli

We don't have to go down that rabbit trail.

Doug Grout

Don't get me wrong, we've got rabbits that come out and run our races.