Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Dowling

When we first had him he was very aware of his limited survival of his own mortality, and I think every day that he has he views as a blessing, ... We had a video conference with some of the other surgeons and nurses that are involved in the project, and his one message to them was 'Life is wonderful.'

Del Schoenfish

We're just happy that we are going on. It was just a matter of survival at the end.

Alan Cooper

Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.

Al Purdy

A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.

Chris Abani

Narrative is a very feeble weapon in the face of human darkness and yet it's all we have. That we have to hang the transformation and survival of our species on the journey and transformation of one singular person so far outside of what we expect they can do.

Cher

Someone once said "The only thing that will be left after a nuclear holocaust is Cher and cockroaches." I think that's funny, because, you know, I am a survivor. If I am anything, that's what I am.

Charlaine Harris

There were definitely parts of my character I didn’t approve of, and maybe from time to time I had moments when I didn’t like myself much. But I got through each day as it came to me, and so far I’d survived every thing life had thrown at me. I could only hope that the survival was worth the price I’d paid.

Chang-Rae Lee

There is secrecy and betrayal but that's more part and parcel of the kind of anguish that the people go through. And maybe that's modes of survival, rather than modes of consciousness.

Charles Grodin

Cancer is enough to get my attention.

Brian Setzer

When I was a kid, I found out about Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent through the Beatles and the Stones doing covers of rockabilly songs,

Anne Sullivan

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

John Sherry

We found out why the Rolling Stones don't have a day job. Meetings and classes and conflicting schedules chews up a lot of practice time.

Chetan Bhagat

When you fly high people will throw stones at you. Don't look down. Just fly higher so the stones won't reach you

Charles Simic

The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats.

Jacques Barzun

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

William Shakespeare

Are there no stones in heaven But what serves for thunder?

Margaret Atwood

In the desert there is no sign that says, Thou shalt not eat stones.

William Shakespeare

Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.

Brian Graden

When we first uncovered the creative genius of the underground skateboard mentality of 'Jackass,' we knew it would resonate with our young adult audience,

Joshua Prince-Ramus

Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.

Houssaye Houssaye

Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence?

John Powell

The genius of Christian spirituality is to integrate [the] spirit of possession with the spirit of dispossession. The spirit of dispossession implies that all the good and delightful things of this world are never allowed to own, possess, or shackle me. Dispossession implies that I am always free, my own person, liberated from the tyranny that possession can easily exercise over us.

Alan Greenspan

The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.

Alain Prost

Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.

Al Seckel

The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics.

Akira Kurosawa

Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is not for nothing that a man's best friends sigh when he marries, especially if he is a man of genius.