Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joel Edgerton

When I was young, I had a very clear point of view on things in life, on moral questions. There was a black and white viewpoint on my world. As I've gotten older, I see the grey areas appear.

Octavio Paz

To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.

Tom Jennings

We're set up to be a major research facility for the world, really, in this area. We're trying to lower the costs of reverse osmosis, for sure. In general the costs have already gone down a lot - from about $14 per thousand gallons 15 years ago to about $2 per thousand gallons today. But we're also looking at ways to customize this technology for areas where there really are no other options.

Russ Blackburn

We're continuing to look at neighborhoods and areas that want urban services.

Karen Murphy

Were concentrating on areas where the power has been fixed and also concentrating on removing large branches from sidewalks.

Lara Ramsburg

We're committed to clearing up those gray areas while making sure safeguards are in place.

David Pierson

We're just going to be targeting those areas where crime seems to be most rampant and do everything under the sun to change the environment so it's no longer attractive to those preying on the community.

Rob Manuel

Sometimes we need to step back and understand the power of video games. 'Dear Esther' does just that. Through visuals, audio, and narration, this title weaves a story around the player as they explore different areas in the game.

S. Jay Olshansky

You can open up a centenarian's brain, and you'll see some areas that look like that of a 50-year-old or of a 110-year-old. You can have variation in the basic process of aging, called senescence, in different parts of the same body.

Tina Fey

I think everyone's intentions are to become a performer at first. But by the time I was in high school and college, I discovered that I liked writing and that I was probably a little better at it.

Octavia E. Butler

Most vampires I have discovered are men for some reason. I guess it's because of Dracula; people are kind of feeding off that.

Tori Kelly

My fans were the ones who discovered me on YouTube. I don't ever want to forget that.

Tift Merritt

In France, I discovered that I love writing in the city. There's such an intensity to being in the city that matches the intensity of what you're experiencing in your head.

John Updike

For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr, I discovered that the implausibility and the thinness of the people distracted me unduly from the plot.

Kim Cattrall

I enjoyed making people laugh. I discovered that I loved that power over them. On stage, I felt I could really express who I was for the first time.

Kathryn Harrison

I used to enjoy reading true crime, but I've discovered that I don't have the journalism nose for blood.

Apparat

When I was 16, I really discovered good stuff like Detroit techno or gabba from Holland.

Stefan Sagmeister

I had discovered that I'm much less special than I thought I am. So whatever I find true for myself, other people might also relate to.

David Hilbert

[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.

David Hume

For, besides, that many persons find too sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this, I say, the motive of blind despair can never reasonably have place in the sciences; since, however unsuccessful former attempts may have proved, there is still room to hope, that the industry, good fortune, or improved sagacity of succeeding generations may reach discoveries unknown to former ages.

David Hume

No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason and capacity.

Audrey Tautou

I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries.

Deborah Harkness

It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.

Al Gore

If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries is declining as demand in China and India is growing, and the price of oil and thus the price of coal will go sky high.

Charles Kingsley

He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost preternatural clearness, volubility, and sensitiveness of mind.

Charles Babbage

It can happen to but few philosophers, and but at distant intervals, to snatch a science, like Dalton, from the chaos of indefinite combination, and binding it in the chains of number, to exalt it to rank amongst the exact. Triumphs like these are necessarily 'few and far between.'

Charles Babbage

The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.

Eli Whitney

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor,

Edgar Degas

One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.

Sydney Smith

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

Alexander Graham Bell

Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions

Adolf Hitler

Conscience is a Jewish invention.

Alfred North Whitehead

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

Craig McHugh

The patent application was to protect our invention. As you can see . . . the invention is significant.

Brandee Bryant

You can be involved and not have ever thought about science or invention in your life. You can have a lot of fun.

Paul Simon

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

Michael Jackson

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. The truth will win this marathon in court.

Mark Twain

I am different from Washington. I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.

Cassandra Gash

I don't know where the responsibility lies, but I know I've done everything I can do.

David Garrick

Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, and talkd like poor Poll.

William Williams

It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.

Ed Garland

His oath should have been, 'I Tony Harwood swear to lie, I say you should reject Tony Harwood 100 percent. Throw him out. He ain't worth nothing.

Fernando Rospigliosi

He can't be believed. He's a man who lies systematically.

William Cowper

When this poor, lisping, stammering tongue/ Lies silent in the grave.

Tom Nalen

Playing doesn't lie, you've got to go out there and get it done. And if you do, it doesn't matter how you got there, they'll find a place for you to play.

David Hume

Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.

Audrey Tautou

When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it.

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

Ellen Potter

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters.

John Irving

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

Edward Norton

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

Barbara Pym

She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ...

Deborah Moggach

My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set there.

David Shields

My medium is prose, not the novel.

David Schwimmer

I like to grow as an actor, and you can do that by playing parts that are unfamiliar to you and uncomfortable.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the old theologies, relieved from all gloomy apprehensions of the future, satisfied that as my labors and capacities were limited to this sphere of action, I was responsible for nothing beyond my horizon, as I could neither understand nor change the condition of the unknown world. Giving ourselves, then, no trouble about the future, let us make the most of the present, and fill up our lives with earnest work here.

H. P. Lovecraft

Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied, thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities.

Patricia Marx

I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.

John Boyne

It is possible, you know, to drift off to an unknown world and find happiness there. Maybe even more happiness than you've ever known before.

Gotye

I guess Surrealism has a draw for me because it's an unknown world. It's a world of subconscious. Some things you can't really get your hands on very easily. Things that are kind of nebulous and they feel like they're not completely formed. You have to feel your way through that.

Jon Burnham

The big unknown in this is the geopolitical situation,

John Lennon

I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope.

John Gibbons

There a lot of unknowns on this team.

Wendell Perkins

We know how to value companies. And we go where the value is.

Brian Tracy

Nobody values your time but YOU.

Demi Lovato

When you treat your body like a Bentley, you value yourself and you start to look at your body differently.

Charlize Theron

We value some lives more than others.

Robert Gerhardt

We thought we could get it out before May 1, but because the values for some of the neighborhoods were out of whack, we had to go back and fine-tune those.

Miriam Santiago

Times have changed. It has already worn out its value,

Adelaide Clemens

I'm very analytical about the industry and I understand that there are value systems, and all sorts of things like that.

Craig Stapleton

have the same values and the same interests.

Julius Baer

(It is) an acquisition which we would value as 'not really expensive.

David Riesman

Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

David Riesman

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.

David Duval

I've just been working hard, trying to get some good stuff to come out.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

There is nothing like chess to keep the brain smart, and give it a workout.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

When your vision is powerful enough, everything else falls into place: how you live your life, your workouts, what friends you choose to hang out with, how you eat, what you do for fun. Vision is purpose, and when your purpose is clear, so are your life choices. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith, there is no anxiety, no doubt - just absolute confidence.

Ben Whishaw

I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.

Arnold Palmer

I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.

Diana Nyad

Just getting in the pool for seven straight hours is unbearable to me.... It's grueling. There's nothing physically pleasurable about it. If you're doing a hard workout, you're throwing up in the gutter. At night you cling to your pillow and just hope that your body revives before you have to go back and do it again.

Al Yankovic

I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.

Beeban Kidron

During my 'difficult teens,' I read about worlds that were mysterious.

Hideo Kojima

When I was small, I was always thinking about different worlds in my head.