Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Sergeant

I am into drones and one chord freak outs and the paintings I am into are more minimal things the New York colour field painters and the soviet schools of the early/mid 20th century suprematism and constructionism.

Chuck Palahniuk

Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the king, but it's not the king any more.

Ann Smith

The pen and pencil of the 21st century is the computer.

David Eagleman

I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.

Chuck Schumer

The Internet in the 21st Century is as important to our future as highways were in the 20th Century. Like a highway, the Internet must remain free and open for all - not determined by the highest bidders.

Natasha Trethewey

I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.

Nathan Myhrvold

The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?

Edmund White

Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.

Bernard Beckett

Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover God's great plan.

Yoko Ono

I feel that my work is not in vain, that it does have a place in society, even though it may not be considered that it has a place in society - it doesn't matter.

Vikram Seth

Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet.

Brad Berenson

The overall lesson of the two nominations taken together is that there is considerable safety in drawing from the very small pool of people who are universally considered qualified for appointment.

Brian Bell

When I was thinking of people for the Space Twins, I wanted people who were sort of space cadets in the first place. I consider myself to be one.

Big Sean

There's a lot of shoes that people consider high-end fashion, from Balenciaga to this and that or whatever, and the Pro Models are very similar to me. They're very fashionable to me - the design and the shape of them. I just like them.

Bayard Taylor

The view of the Rocky Mountains from the Divide near Kiowa Creek is considered one of the finest in Colorado.

Desiree Rogers

I don't consider myself flashy at all. I mean, did I dress like the average Washingtonian? No.

Nina Garcia

I don't have a development deal, but the one thing I have learned is never say never. I will consider things as they come.

Francois Cluzet

What's interesting for me is that I generally consider myself to be more of a physical actor, and I'm somebody that doesn't really want to use the dialogue but prefers to act through my body, and then sometimes when I have a script, I look and kind of throw away the dialogue and I just look at how I can expressive it through my body.

Zac Goldsmith

I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.

Yoko Ono

I think it's nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.

Christina Baker Kline

As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.

John C. Calhoun

Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own. If you are indifferent to your own safety, you must not be surprised if those less interested should become more so.

Charlie Trotter

Any fool can be happy. What I'm interested in is satisfaction. There's got to be more to life than just being happy. You've got to be fulfilled. You've got to be satisfied; philosophically satisfied is what I mean.

Teri Garr

People aren't so interested in seeing movies about women's problems.

Vint Cerf

I just am a huge cheerleader for getting kids interested in science and technology.

Andy Murray

People say to me, 'You don't seem that interested in interviews.' Well, you know, I'm not, often. I'm not going to talk tactics with the press, so you are left with talking about how you are feeling; for me, it is not the most interesting thing to be doing.

Alan Alda

I think most people are interested in our origins; once we understand, it might be easier to become the people we'd like to be. Or, better, become the people we think we already are.

Henry David Thoreau

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

Amy Adams

My natural response to a stressful situation is to shut down. I do weird things, like, I don't cry, I get really cold.

Lasse Hallstrom

It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.

Naomi Campbell

What I like about gyrotonics is you feel like you really elongated yourself for the day... As we all get older, everything changes and moves, and there's natural ways to exercise. I think it's important, and I think it's something that can help keep things in place.

Starsmith

When I've worked with established artists, I've naturally been more restricted, but you still have to take risks and push yourself to do something different.

Neil Cross

I don't get on with novelists, don't enjoy their company. Once you've worked for a publisher, you understand the species, see them in their natural habitat, and it's not always pretty.

Dusty Baker

We are going to try to take him at a natural progression to have him ready when the season starts. We are going to watch him closely.

Chester Brown

It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling.

Mitchell Baker

People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume.

Paul Anderson

We never thought or suspected that these plants would have a problem. Somebody should be doing time for this; that's the way I look at it.

Mark Wiley

I wouldn't be putting out young plants just yet.

Jim Leonard

There aren't very many hydro plants we can upgrade left.

Vince Green

When they say plants are closing, they're going elsewhere. And it's not just China; it's Tennessee, Texas, more business-friendly states.

Mark Ploger

The plants are in a weakened state. Moisture is the key. We need rain.

Michael Nelson

It puts it where your plants can use it.

Fred Bassett

It's a combination of plants and a feeder.

Chogyam Trungpa

You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the sun shining and plants growing. The sun has no desire to create the vegetation; plants simply react to sunlight and the situation develops naturally.

Roger Schagrin

A lot of plants will shut down if there is no relief.

David Hanson

I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.

William Gibson

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.

Sarah Hall

I was useless at science. I was never going to be an astrophysicist.

Kurt Vonnegut

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

You can only go into science because you're interested in it.

Alva Myrdal

It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.

Paul Verhoeven

Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'.

Octavia E. Butler

Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.

Prince

I have friends that are gay, and we study the Bible together.

Charles Spurgeon

The closet is the best study. The commentators are good instructors, but the Author Himself is far better.

Madeleine Albright

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

Bill Johnson

Bible study without Bible experience is pointless.

Joe Pannunzio

We're going to have a two-a-day, but it's going to be academic. We're going to study two times today.

Howard Schnellenberger

We'll be getting the tape tonight and be studying them.

Richard Muller

If you study one, you are also studying the other.

Johnny Cash

I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.

James Joseph Sylvester

The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.