Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alice Smith

If it's out there, it's probably a heap of rust that would disintegrate if you tried to move it.

Li Zhaoxing

This should have been thrown into the trash heap of history a long time ago.

John Dryden

To see and to be seen, in heaps they run; / Some to undo, and some to be undone.

Edward Meir

The Iranian situation remains on top of the heap in terms of market concerns.

David Boaz

The initial reaction was to throw heaps and heaps of money at the problem. While you've had increases in welfare spending over the last 40 years, you've also had increases in the number of unwed mothers, increases in crime.

Mike Wilton

It seemed like whoever ascended to the top of the heap would quickly give it away. Nobody could settle into that position last year.

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,

Arthur Conan Doyle

Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

Kate Michelman

Now, the gauntlet has been, I think, thrown down.

Alan Trammel

If someone is going to get thrown out, it should be the manager.

Philippe Petit

I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street.

Kevin McCarthy

That was thrown on us, so we'll look at it and see which way we go about doing it.

Rand Paul

William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston.

Mike Conroy

We've had lefties thrown at us all year. We're used to it now.

Carlo Ratti

Some trash is recycled, some is thrown away, some ends up where it shouldn't end up.

Heath Lane

We really didn't have a play at first, and we shouldn't have thrown the ball.

David Viscott

Once a person says, "This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do," it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.

David House

People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.

David Hilbert

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.

David Hilbert

Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much time to squander on a probable failure.

David Hume

Time is a perishable commodity.

David Brainerd

Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.

David Brainerd

Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.

Beatrice Wood

The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.

Arthur Rimbaud

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Charles de Lint

You can take the woman outta the trash, but you can't take the trash out a the woman.

M. Wolfe

We?re not going back into the trash business.

Jeremiah Trotter

We were just trash talking, and it escalated a little bit,

Mary Lou Retton

If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash.

Stanislaw Lem

Practically all SF is trash.

Richard Roeper

Equilibrium is enjoyably classy trash.