Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Castaneda

The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery.

Carlos Castaneda

The secret is not in what you do to yourself but rather in what you don't do.

Alan Lakein

One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day.

Alan Kay

If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.

Charles Dickens

In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it.

Charles Dickens

Nobody near me here, but rats, and they are fine stealthy secret fellows.

Brian Cox

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look.

Bret Harte

It would seem evident, therefore, that the secret of the American short story was the treatment of characteristic American life, with absolute knowledge of its peculiarities and sympathy with its method...

Bret Easton Ellis

He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn't seem to care how flatly he perceived everyone or that he'd shared our secret failures with the world, showcasing the youthful indifference, the gleaming nihilism, glamorizing the horror of it all.

C. S. Lewis

It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one who did.

C. S. Lewis

If you thirst you may drink.

C. S. Lewis

I see you are an idiot, whatever else you may be...

Agnes Smedley

But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.

Aaron Sorkin

Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you don't like a story, but you can't fool an audience ever. They know when you have it and they know when you don't.

Al Bagnoli

We were trying to replace some very talented kids. He was trying to replace the player of the year, which is never easy. Maybe our expectations were not what they should have been. I think he had a productive year, even though it was somewhat inconsistent to Mike Mitchell and Gavin Hoffman.

Alan Turing

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded...

Alan Shepard

You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.

Charlotte Bronte

There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.

Carl Sagan

The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths.

Carl Sagan

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

Cesare Pavese

All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.

Alan Watts

The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.

Cheryl Richardson

Schedule a sacred date with yourself. You deserve time for your life.

Cheryl Strayed

It was my life — like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.

Barbara de Angelis

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Bernard Joseph Saurin

Nothing is sacred to a gamester.

Desiderius Erasmus

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.