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.

Aaron Swartz

Life is short ... so why waste it doing something dumb?

Charlie Chaplin

Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles.

Bram Stoker

For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.

Djuna Barnes

Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.

David Rubenstein

My work life is intense. But I love what I do.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Life is not supposed to be this calcified experience where you don't change.

Janet Frame

Life is hell, but at least there are prizes. Or so one thought.

Alan Alda

life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.

Alan Alda

Life is great-I wouldn't know what I'd do without it.

Mark Wigley

We have to get past the standardized image. It didn't include any of the poor people - any of those neighborhoods that we only know now because they're filled with water.

Amy Denson

We have a young team and some older experience, but we were never satisfied. The younger girls have no fear, and it's very refreshing. Our expectations have been filled because we have more to work with.

Thomas Dewar

The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.

Kate O'Brien

It's filled with... baking soda. Because it really smells.

Chevy Chase

You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.

Guy Finley

We go through our lives in a continual dance of being filled with something that needs an answer, and then going out and finding that answer... only to find out that our answer wasn't quite the answer.

Charlie Hunnam

Television is all about sound. You'll never get a moment of silence unless there's something really extraordinary going on, on screen, visually. They never let a moment of silence pass without being filled in television because it's a very sound-driven medium.

Bill Gates

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

Connie Willis

Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments - as long as the paperwork's filled out properly. And in on time.