Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Abani

The Internet is really our meeting place. We have this amazing listserv. Every time I log onto it I feel a sense of pride, because if you log on and say, "Oh I was just in San Diego and I was in a park and I saw a lion," the flurry of replies on average is just like--wow! All these existential questions about what it means to be an African, and never having seen a lion at home, but having seen a lion here. Everything you say turns into this real philosophical debate--it's incredible in so many ways. And it's an invigorating place to be.

Charles Baudelaire

The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings - woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.

Charles Baudelaire

In philosophical inquiry, the human spirit, imitating the movement of the stars, must follow a curve which brings it back to its point of departure. To conclude is to close a circle.

Charles Baudelaire

Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.

Charles Simic

For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Still, it will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.

Bill McKibben

Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality.

William Shakespeare

Life's uncertain voyage.

William Shakespeare

A great cause of the night is lack of the sun.

Bob Romeo

We've averaging 61 points per game, but the thing that makes me the proudest about this team is its defense. We've held teams to an average of 31 points per game. A lot of players get to play (as a result of big leads), and that means the kids on the bench are doing a good job defensively as well.

Steve Manzuik

We've assigned it our 'High' rating, which means the vulnerability allows for code execution,

Donald Steel

We've asked investment bankers to assist with the review, but that doesn't mean we're putting it up for sale. We're exploring every option, from status quo to complete sale and everything in between.

Graeme Smith

We've always wanted to play positive, winning cricket, and if we can win this series, it means we can put a tick against this summer.

Mark Berry

When we were leaving, Jerry (Narron) said, 'You're going to come to Cincinnati and see us play next year,' ... He moved his thumb. His mother said that means 'OK.' I got pretty choked up. Jerry did, too.

Sofia Boutella

When I was little, I went to the Sahara desert and met an older woman with beautiful earrings that came all the way down to her stomach. She told me, 'For us Tuareg, jewelry is not meant for decoration. It absorbs negative energy that comes your way.' So think twice when you buy a vintage ring!

Cory Lidle

When I was in Oakland, knowing that Billy had played the game meant a lot.

Jeff Hulse

When it comes down to that moment when we play, we have something to prove every game. When it comes to that game, we'll have something to prove, too, and it'll have great meaning to us.

Vicente Fox

When it comes down to it, for Mexico, the FTAA means being able to go forward toward development, in the fight against poverty, in job creation and economic growth,

Adrian Benepe

When I was a child growing up in the city, you never saw hawks. It's now quite common to see large birds of prey in New York City.

Seth McClung

We're major league pitchers. It's one-and-one, you understand. You want to get ahead. You have to play common sense-wise." ()

Tom Kloza

We're going to see $3 a gallon gas quite commonly in the next week or so,

Kenneth Fisher

What is the most common investor mistake? Trading - getting in and getting out at all the wrong times, for all the wrong reasons.

Richard Boucher

What this does is it brings a common view, a unified message, a unified position of the United States and Europe,

Alfred DeMaria

What they have in common is living in an area that exposed them to at least one infected mosquito that transmits the disease,

Dan Moore

When we began to think about our clients' interests, we discovered a common passion for motorcycles. Therefore, we created an event that is centered on that common passion. This passion for riding, coupled with the need to learn about the latest models of John Deere equipment has led to our employees, vendors and customers having a fantastic day together.

Toba Beta

When we do stargazing, we stare at the stars...and many other things which we have presumed commonly as stars.

William Hazlitt

What a fine lesson is conveyed to the mind -- to take no note of time but by its benefits, to watch only for the smiles and neglect the frowns of fate, to compose our lives of bright and gentle moments, turning always to the sunny side of things, and letting the rest slip for our imaginations, unheeded or forgotten! How different from the common art of self-tormenting!