Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Butler

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butler

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

Samuel Butler

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Samuel Butler

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

Samuel Butler

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Carter Burwell

The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive.

Steven Spielberg

I dream for a living.

Jean Paul

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

Henry Miller

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

Samuel Butler

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

Cate Blanchett

I'm either sitting very still or running very fast.

Alan Cohen

Will you ever run out of creative ideas and expressions? Ha! The more creative ideas you have, the more you will discover. Creativity is a tree with countless branches that never stop blossoming.

Joan Rivers

A Mafia guy in Vegas gave me this advice: 'Run your own race, put on your blinders.'

Mike Jones

When they are on their best, any running back can go in there and do their thing.

Eric Schmidt

The adult way to run a business is to run it more like a country. They have disputes, yet they've actually been able to have huge trade with each other. They're not sending bombs at each other.

Dick Cheney

Like many Americans, I've always been intrigued by Bill Clinton. I obviously didn't always agree with him - enjoyed running against his legacy in 2000, when Al Gore was his designated successor, but I don't have anything negative I would say about Bill Clinton.

Walter Benjamin

I had to adjust to living in a Third World country, which means that things people in the U.S. take for granted-like hot running water whenever you turn on the tap-are not always available.

Walter Benjamin

In the long run, the people are our only appeal. The only ones who can free us are ourselves.

Pat Riley

The points that he scored really weren't ones that hurt us.

Rachel Corrie

Maybe if people stopped thinking of themselves, and started thinking of the other sides of things, people wouldn't hurt each other.

Alan Cohen

Money is not the root of all evil...ignorance is the root of all evil. People do cruel and foolish things for money because they feel oppressed by a sense of lack. If people knew their power to generate wealth, they would never fight or hurt each other over money.

Alan Cohen

Pain happens, but suffering is optional. When pain comes, make use of the experience, but do not wallow in it. When you accidentally place your finger in a flame, it is supposed to hurt just long enough for you to pull it out. If you think there is value in keeping it there, you will be a crispy critter. Pain is a minor element of life, unless you are indulging it. Then it becomes suffering. Get the message and then get on with your life, which is far more about joy than sorrow.

Will Rogers

When they do nothing, they don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.

Andy Hartmann

When Zach left, it hurt. But when Mike came, it was a relief because we're going to have a nice tandem in the backfield.

Allan Bertram

When Harmon fouled out, because even though he's not real tall he is very strong, that really hurt us. Their size just killed us.

Dean Stanley

I doubt if hard work, steadily and regularly carried on, ever yet hurt anybody.

Walter Benjamin

There is a down side to everything if you don't understand what the consequences of what you are saying in your music you could possibly end up getting yourself killed or hurting other people because of your carelessness.