Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Stoppard

I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.

Todd Rundgren

It would be really great if someone would invent a new Internet with the specific purpose of not making money off of it, but making it what it originally was, a free marketplace of ideas, and there are still aspects of the Internet that are that. Wikipedia, essentially, is still the bastion of the original ideals of the Internet.

John Meyers

We're looking at this as one of the future aspects of photography. Photography and seeing ultimately will converge.

Susan DeVore

We're looking at every point in the process, from scheduling to post-discharge care, because our data shows that hospitals who manage their key service lines in this manner are successful in collaborating with their medical staff. That performance-based collaboration is the key to improving all aspects of performance, including reducing implant costs.

Paul Rooke

We're continuing to build on the services/solutions aspects to this. Multifunction to us is more than just copy/fax.

Gene Luen Yang

Like all of us, I don't think Facebook is 100% evil, but there are aspects of it that move towards evilness. It's true of all the major Silicon Valley companies, that there are aspects to all of them that move towards evilness, but I don't believe they're 100% evil.

John Glenn

Let me castigate the press a moment here. Too often you get into the human aspects of this and you don't get into the scientific stuff that gets into everybody's house all over this country.

Tracy Hickman

I've always been fascinated by the Norsemen, their lives, history and cosmology. The more we study them the more interesting they become... breaking their own stereotypes. We usually think of them as barbarians, but there were aspects to their society that shows a tremendous level of civilization, sophistication and social advance.

Louis Oosthuizen

You have to be sharp with all aspects of your game at Augusta. You need to put yourself in the best spot off the tee and hit the longest drive you can, but I think this is really a second-shot course. If you leave yourself with an awkward putt on the greens, it can be very tricky here.

Kevin Wilson

I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative was through film.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything.

Cory Michael Smith

When I was auditioning for 'Gotham,' I got a handful of comics from different decades, so I had a perspective - it's been around for 75 years, which is a long time.

Taran Killam

I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel like you can pick your player. 'I'm the most like Gambit... or I'm totally a Storm.'

Robert Mankoff

One of the first comic things you do is imitate.

Dennis Franz

Leave It to Beaver.' I could relate to being that age. It also kind of was an ideal world, at least at that time. I look at it now, and it wasn't very politically correct. But I felt all warm and fuzzy when watching the show. I used to read Little Lulu comics for the same reason. It was just a perfect world.

Tracy Hickman

There is a scene in one comic from the '60s-'70s where Batman finds a film, a newsreel film, of his father. This newsreel film is from the '50s, and his father has come to this costume ball in a Zorro costume, which strangely enough looks a lot like a Batman suit in the footage.

Dane Cook

As a comedian, I am obligated to tell you the truth, my truth. To share with you my beliefs, my perspective. And I think that we forget sometimes that that's the oath that comics take, that we will go up and share everything - the irreverent, the scary.

Jessica Abel

When I'm working on comics, I have to give myself a million deadlines, or I'd never get anything done. Comics are just so hard to make - I find it very difficult to motivate myself.

David Douglass

Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.

David Bryant

God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know.

Audrey Hepburn

As a matter of fact, I rather feel like expressing myself now.

Antony Jay

The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.

Derek Jacobi

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

Alain Badiou

I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.

Al Gore

I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging.

Ajay Naidu

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.

David Walton

Chemistrys a funny thing. It can be instantaneous, but it helps when you know someone.

David Hyde Pierce

The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn't tell him the dog's name.

David Brenner

When I go to a bar, I don't go looking for a girl who knows the capital of Maine.

David Brenner

A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

Ben Stiller

I wanted to be funny for people who didn't care about fashion at all, to just to kind of exist as a silly character.

David Icke

A group of reptilian humanoids, called the Babylonian Brotherhood, control humanity.

David Hume

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

David Hume

Custom is the great guide to human life.

Astro Teller

Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.

Alan Dershowitz

Any human being has private thoughts.

Alain Badiou

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

Blaise Pascal

Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

Blaise Pascal

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

Kenny Chesney

I've gotten to meet so many people who've inspired me as a human being.

David Hockney

If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.

David Hume

Art may make a suite of clothes, but nature must produce a man.

David Hume

Of all the animals with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercised more cruelty than towards man, in the numberless wants and necessities with which she has loaded him, and in the slender means which she affords to the relieving these necessities.

David Hume

While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the imperfections of the mechanical philosophy; and thereby restored her ultimate secrets to that obscurity, in which they ever did and ever will remain.

David Douglas

A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see.

Barry Commoner

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

Rachel Carson

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

Dennis Cardoza

I fully support the goal of species protection and conservation and believe that recovery and ultimately delisting of species should be the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's top priority under ESA.

Charles Kingsley

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

David Walton

Teasing was big in my family, and there is a wonderful way to tease and make people feel more loved.

David Walliams

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

David Roberts

People say 'Why do you make pots?' Because I'm compelled to - life isn't right without it.

David Rockefeller

When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.

David Hyde Pierce

People can be a hoot on the set, but if they're not good to work with, that tires very quickly.

David Icke

I am not an anti-Semite! I have a great respect for the Jewish people.

David Icke

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

David Icke

Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy. It is happening today in the same way - more so, in fact - as it has throughout human history.

David Icke

We talk about people being narrow-minded when they have a limited sense of possibility. Well, that's exactly what they are. They are narrow-frequencied, if you like. When we talk about people awakening, it's awakening to a greater range of possibilities, of awareness and frequencies.

Dee Dee Warwick

They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not?

Dee Dee Ramone

All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.

Al Yankovic

Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.

Alanis Morissette

I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.

John Owen

After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes.

Elton John

Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough.

Kid Rock

When I was making my first record there would be something that would come out that would inspire you, you know? You'd see someone on TV or on the radio.

Jane Austen

I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.

Ben Gibbard

To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didnt sign to Atlantic just for the money.

Marcus Valerius Martial

Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.

Siri Hustvedt

Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.

Mike Adams

We've reduced it significantly ... but I don't think we've stopped it completely.

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Madonna Ciccone

When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

Greg Knudsen

We're not saying let's make everything easier. There will be the need for a new test because of the new standards, but they have not been reduced in difficulty.

Mitt Romney

I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

Michelle Laughlin

The thing yesterday for the first time in a long time was reduced risk-aversion...it was the reverse of the flight-to-quality.

Gina Laughlin

A lease rejection does not signal any type of reduced operation.

Alanis Morissette

How about not equating death with stopping?

Isaiah Tucker

We're going down there and going down to win and we're not stopping until we do that.

Enrico Colantoni

You know what, I'm a big, big fan of 'Heroes,' but the day they told me that the end of the world was coming, and that day didn't come, I stopped watching.

Joe Spraggins

We're just trying to get them all up because we want to stop another problem.

Lonnie Bunch

My first task for tomorrow is to stop smiling.

Alastair Reynolds

One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word.

Barbara Warren

She wouldn't be around if she hadn't stopped smoking,

Kevin Nursick

Vehicles are being stopped and inspected as they should be.

Bob Goldstein

We're not here to stop development or impede it in any way,