Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands.

Alan Watts

So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of energy, nerve-work, and materials in whizzing off to the moon to discover, as astronomers knew before, that it was just a dreary slag heap. This is the true, original and scientifically etymological meaning of being lunatics. Crying for the moon.

Alan Watts

If to enjoy even an enjoyable present we must have the assurance of a happy future, we are “crying for the moon.” We have no such assurance. The best predictions are still matters of probability rather than certainty, and to the best of our knowledge every one of us is going to suffer and die. If, then, we cannot live happily without an assured future, we are certainly not adapted to living in a finite world where, despite the best plans, accidents will happen, and where death comes at the end.

Alan Hovhaness

To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists. The planets have the sun, the earth, the moon.

Alan Bean

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

Alan Bean

I can remember walking on the moon.

Alan Bean

The moon is very rugged.

Alan Bean

It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon.

Alan Bean

We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.

Charles Mackay

Much as the sage may affect to despise the opinion of the world, there are few who would not rather expose their lives a hundred times than be condemned to live on, in society, but not of it - a by-word of reproach to all who know their history, and a mark for scorn to point his finger at.

Anton Chekhov

All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.

Baltasar Gracian

The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.

Jason Chaffetz

The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.

Bryan Gilmore

I think that's overrated. Sage will be fine.

Maimonides

The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

Hilary Duff

Sage made me complete. He made me happy. He was as much a part of me as my own body. How could anyone lose that and still exist?" - Clea Raymond

Joseph Glanvill

The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis.

Publilius Syrus

He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.

Charles Stross

Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.

Darren Shan

What are you doing?" "Looking for my fangs." "We don't grow fangs you idiot!

Bill Maher

It's very hard not to be condescending when you're explaining something to an idiot.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I'm an idiot anyway, but sometimes you feel like an idiot times ten when you're stoned.

Billie Joe Armstrong

We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens.

Dennis Prager

To call yourself a socialist in 2015 is to be an idiot. Socialism fails. Everywhere.

Brad Williams

It takes a surprisingly large amount of intelligence to be a professional idiot.

Clint Eastwood

Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.

David Bailey

Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.