Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

Lillian Gordy Carter

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

James Rubin

Mr. Karadzic has no place to run and no place to hide, ... The noose is gradually tightening around his neck.

Lindsay Bowen

We're getting better, for sure. It's just going to keep gradually coming. We have a lot of talent, a lot of potential. It's just a matter of putting it all together to get to that higher level.

Phil Dow

If we have a series of big moves up, that would be a shock to the system, ... but, considering where are from a historical perspective, they could go up more gradually and not be a terrible headwind for the market.

Jamie Dixon

He's grown an inch, and he's gradually put on weight. Strength is a big thing.

Al Madrigal

I don't really move onstage; all I do is just gradually hunch more and more and jut out at the people in the front row.

Steve Dunn

We are gradually showing people the value of our technology, but it is a tough market.

Alice Sebold

I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there yet.

Arnold J. Toynbee

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead.

Antony Beevor

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

Octavio Paz

The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.

Kara Walker

I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.

Benito Mussolini

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

Carroll Quigley

I came into history from a primary concern with mathematics and science. This has been a tremendous help to me as a person and as a historian, although it must be admitted it has served to make my historical interpretations less conventional than may be acceptable of many of my colleagues in the field.

Alan Furst

I invented the historical spy novel.

Alan Coren

Disneyworld...is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.

Marissa Moss

When I'm working on historical books, I'm much more organized. I usually read about 100 books to get the depth of knowledge I need.

Italo Calvino

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

John Walls

She is very versatile and moves well. She was tough to stop.

Troy Glaus

With the moves that they made, and things that they've been able to do, this team seems poised to make a run. We're young and very, very talented.

Jeremy Spencer

Give me anything that moves my heart, that gives me goosebumps.

Rob Gronkowski

I feel like when I do some dance moves during the week or at the house, I'm quicker on my feet. I can react quicker just from dancing.

Mitsuhiro Osawa

There are moves to turn around from that path towards something like Matsushita.

Rob Johnson

If something does happen, there are some restraint moves they are taught.

Ralph Downey

If it moves at night, give it Klonopin

Steve Evans

If this moves forward, you'll see a reigniting of the water wars like you wouldn't believe.

Mike Birbiglia

Louis C.K. directs his show, which is very much like a series of short films.

L. J. Smith

I've thought that 'Soulmate' in the 'Night World' series would make a really nice TV-movie or just a movie.

Lorraine Toussaint

I have read every book in the 'Dune' series and every Anne Rice book.

Laurel Lea

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.

Alan Ball

What the series is all about is: We die. So while we're here, let's live fully.

James Van Der Beek

When you're the lead of a series, things happen around you, and you react to them.

Phil Garner

Getting this World Series start is probably going to go a long way in getting him over the Tennessee loss.

Ryan Miller

I don't want that to be the way this series is remembered.

Victor Diaz

I was so stressed. Every at-bat's been like the World Series for me.

Maria Semple

My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me.

Heather Stephens

She's amazing. I was shocked I was able to do that because she's so great.

Bryan Callen

Its always a shock to me when I get recognized.

William Arbaugh

would be shocked if they solved the problem.

Dan Stevens

I'm shocked at being recognized.

Bob Brown

I didn't want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.

Terry Pratchett

What's so surprising about bacon? I dunno, I suppose it comes as something a a shock to the pig.

Scott Gomez

Obviously, it's a shock right now to hear,

Gary Sheffield

Right now, I'm just shocked by it all, the way that it ended. This is weird all the way around. But that's the way it goes. It just got away from us.

Jami Attenberg

Please make me either relatable or terrible.

Bob Dylan

Some things are too terrible to be true.

Edward Said

The just response to this terrible event should be to go immediately to the world community, the United Nations. The rule of international law should be marshaled, but it's probably too late because the United States has never done that; it's always gone it alone.

Ashley Madekwe

I'm terrible at posting regularly; I don't deserve the blog success!

Elizabeth Kostova

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

Elizabeth McGovern

I have a terrible sense of direction.

Bobby Valentine

Unique, ... That wasn't that terrible of a team, I guess.

Tom Mueller

From the very beginning, we said we wanted to know the truth about this terrible incident, ... Now we do

Ronda Rousey

I'm a terrible singer, but I'm not shy about it. I'm shy about dancing.