Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change. We hold on.

Brad Pitt

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

Tina Brown

The natural creativity of the staff morphed 'The Daily Beast' very fast into what has become a newsroom. Aggregation lives on the Cheat Sheet, the video player, and in the breaking news slot in the first big box. The rest is all original, generated by Beast writers and editors.

Ben Jonson

Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.

Fyodor Dostoevski

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

B. F. Skinner

Let's face it, he was a beast in there. He just went in there and challenged them. That's what a senior does, he puts you on his back and carries you.

Heather Stewart

She was a beast on the boards tonight. She was crashing hard.

Arthur Golden

A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.

Brandon Heath

Phenomenal, man, 20 boards is a lot. He had 20 and 20. I've never played with a guy who's done that before. I'm proud of him. He's a beast on the boards.

Carol Vorderman

There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years.

C. S. Lewis

At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague or subordinate. Not among Friends. It is an affair of disentangled, or stripped, minds. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Agnes Varda

I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn't think I should do less than my brothers.

Aaron Staton

I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before Mad Men.

Alan King

My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails.

Charlotte Bronte

My home is humble and unattractive to strangers, but to me it contains what I shall find nowhere else in the world - the ... affection which brothers and sisters feel for each other.

Charles Dickens

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed.

Charles Spurgeon

We must meditate, brothers. These grapes will yield no wine we tread upon it.

Ron Carey

What the union historically has done is gone in, negotiate a contract, then brought it back to its members when they reached agreement. What the company has been dictating and intimidating and threatening people is that they want to shove this contract down the members' throats. That has never been done in the past,

Honeysuckle Weeks

When 'Foyle's War' ended in 2010 after seven series, I was sad but not despondent. After all, ITV had already axed the show once in 2007, then brought it back due to public demand.

Charles Spurgeon

When facts were weak, his native cheek brought him serenely through

LaDainian Tomlinson

When he first got here, he said he had some nastiness to him, and that was one thing he was going to bring. He's definitely brought it. ... I mean, the guy has brought a different mindset to the defense.

Kenneth Stethem

We want him to be brought to justice. We want him to be tried in the United States.

Steve Begin

We were already playing good hockey before the Olympic break. We were playing with confidence, and it's that confidence that we brought with us on this trip.

Sam Castree

The fact that maybe he upset some people in prior departments... I don't know that that's surprising as someone who's brought into many of these departments to institute community policing measures.

Mike Massey

When I'm doing it for charity I feel the freest and the best, ... I lived the life of a hustler for quite a few years, but God brought me out of it and made me a champion.

Mary Cimbalnik

We used to have kids brought here through a church, refugees with life-and-death stories.

James Graf

We're right on the money right now, heading toward our encounter with Mars.

Desiderius Erasmus

Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.

Bill Johnson

We owe the world an encounter with God

Bill Johnson

Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word.

Judith Ivey

She encounters all these different men, ... in the Adirondacks to help her out (or) not to help her, and so on -- and they're all suspicious.

John Kessel

Since my first encounter with Kafka's writing, I've been interested in a quality that, while he was alive, stood in the way of his achieving a large reputation: his allegory.

Kent Conrad

She starts off in a positive position with me because of these conversations we have had, ... She is a lovely person. Some people you encounter in life and you like them.

Ayn Rand

You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated

Jim Parsons

My favorite sci-fi movie of all time is 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'

Carlos Castaneda

We're a feeling, an awareness encased here

Mike James

We have to get that feeling that we have when we're down 20 and take that into the start of the game. We can't be nonchalant.

Ville Nieminen

We have a special feeling in the locker room.

Agnetha Faltskog

No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace.

Agnes Varda

You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.

Alan Sugar

I've got a gut feeling in my stomach. . .

Charlotte Bronte

True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.

Charlie Chaplin

Nothing quite like it. The feeling of film.

Charles Dickens

Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language.

Charles Stross

I don't do flash fiction.

Anita Diament

When I turned 40, I wanted to do something different. Fiction offered a different challenge. It uses a different side of the brain.

Tahmoh Penikett

I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.

Tom Bissell

My fiction-writing DNA shows in how I think about prose, how I think about the page, how I think nonfiction stories should work. And every piece of nonfiction I write, I want it to have fictional texture.

Laurie Levenson

The popularity of these programs has an impact. There is a blurring of fiction and reality.

Brent Spiner

I don't read fiction at all.

David Morrell

There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them.

David Mitchell

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

Chad Harbach

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

Carol Vorderman

All I wanted to do was put together one of the best home maths systems in the world, and that's what we've done. I've loved numbers since I was two or three, and I get really excited about them. Now, I'm allowing myself to get excited about things. If you're doing it for a TV network or any major corporation, you have to put a lid on it a little.

Carlos Mencia

And for all of you at home, you are all welcome to visit my store. You are also welcome to park off you motherparking parks, and go park yourself. But remember, don't park in a handicapped spot.

C. S. Lewis

The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)

C. S. Lewis

Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you'd never know which were which.

Steve Squyres

We have no idea yet how widespread Home Plate-like material may be. We have not seen anything like this before, but it doesn't mean there isn't more stuff out there.

Robin Cook

We want peace, but it must be a peace that makes Kosovo safe for the refugees to go home

Alan Titchmarsh

I love Chatsworth, Winchester Cathedral, Edinburgh Castle... Every time I'm in the vicinity of something old and worth looking at, I try to go. You don't even have to leave your home town to see some places. How many Londoners have seen the crown jewels? Not many, and they'll blow you away, I promise.

Alan Shearer

When I go home every night, I can look in the mirror and say I have given 110 per cent for Newcastle United. If people aren't happy with that, I can't give any more.

Alan K. Simpson

A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.

Twyla Tharp

Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere.

Luis Aragones

But all the players who have not been included know that they can return to the side if they prove themselves on the pitch.

Stella Young

I have a condition that is included among the 200 or so classified as Dwarfism.

Alan Alda

The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping.

Gary Hill

The petition included the total number of properties on the acreage, ... It did not specify that these two landowners would not be included in the annexation.

Steve Ralston

We all know it doesn't matter if you are on the team now, ... You could be playing now and doing well and not even be included next year.

Brian Young

If we included this in the price of our room, it could put us at a competitive disadvantage.

Lloyd Johnston

It is possible that some students know what drugs are and are not included in the tests, and migrate toward using those not included.

Raza Rabbani

I don't think that Pakistan's opposition parties are included in the US president's schedule.

Gary Shteyngart

In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.

Heikki Kovalainen

I'm a big James Bond fan. I've got a collection of them.

Dee Brown

Me and James (Augustine) have been through this before as sophomores. You just have to play with a different mentality.

Ronnie Milsap

I often thought that if I had been working with Mark James at American Studios, I would have had a pop hit before I ever moved out of Memphis. But that didn't happen.

Merry Clayton

I was signed to A&M, I was signed to Lou Adler, who had a company within a company, which was A&M Records, and everything - James Taylor, Rita Coolidge, Carole King - I worked on all of that stuff.

Sally Kirkland

I didn't go to college, not that I don't think people should, but I didn't because I was Off-Broadway when I was 17, with James Earl Jones.

Irwin Winkler

When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.

Brian Barker

When James was out, we put a lot of time into bolstering his weaknesses.

Bill Hader

The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic.

Diane Setterfield

What better place to kill time than a library?

David McCullough

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

David Strathairn

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

Jandy Nelson

Each time someone dies, a library burns.

Jane Austen

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy

Jane Austen

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

Janis Ian

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

Thomas Jefferson

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

Elie Wiesel

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

Carol Shields

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted...

Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Castaneda

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Carlos Castaneda

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Carlos Castaneda

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

Carlos Castaneda

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

Carlos Castaneda

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

C. S. Lewis

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Carl Andre

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Jason Clarke

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

Janice Hahn

I was born into public service.

Jane Russell

Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.

Alan Mollohan

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

S. Hughes

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....

Tom Bailey

We have a responsibility to the public to do the right thing, ... We've got 14-year-olds that read the newspaper.

Barbara Hershey

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves by elegance or generality.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics, but is true of every exclusive occupation. Likewise a mere linguist, a mere jurist, a mere soldier, a mere merchant, and so forth. One could add such idle chatter that when a certain exclusive occupation is often connected with certain specific shortcomings, it is on the other hand always free of certain other shortcomings.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

Alan Stern

We're just learning that a lot of planets are small planets, and we didn't know that before, fact is, in planetary science, objects such as Pluto and the other dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt are considered planets and called planets in everyday discourse in scientific meetings.

Alan Turing

These disturbing phenomena [Extra Sensory Perception] seem to deny all our scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming.

Alan Turing

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

Alan Shepard

Why don't you light that candle ?

Charles Caleb Colton

In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.

Charles Caleb Colton

No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.

Dave McCoy

We're pretty much just waiting. It's somewhat frustrating." ()

Nick Saban

Right tackle has been somewhat of a problem,

Gary Goddard

I think we probably get somewhat better prices,

Jeff Evans

She's cooperating, she's upset. Somewhat relieved, she said.

Dudley North

Trade is nothing else but a Commutation of Superfluities; for instance: I give mine, what I can spare, for somewhat of yours, which I want, and you can spare.

Charles Bona

The swings are going to be very rapid, and they could be somewhat sizeable.

Bridget Derrick

Our terrain here is pretty wooded and it's somewhat rolling.

Frank Dunham

somewhat of a surprise, but not a total surprise.

Don Lindburg

It really is turning out to be somewhat of a hardship.

Eric Fellner

You can get swept away by a musical, but real tears are rare.

Ryan Klesko

This was a big win for us, ... We didn't need to get swept by these guys.

Karl Marx

[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself.