Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brett Favre

We have to get something going and have a short time to get there, ... I couldn't go out like that. If you're going to go back in, do something good.

Charles Spurgeon

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Frank Robinson

We did have it, ... for a short while.

Alan Watts

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way...

Mark Cuban

There are no shortcuts. NONE.

Charles Hazlewood

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.

Benjamin Hoff

A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

Demetri Martin

Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.

Billy Bob Thornton

You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I found the short story format a real nice one. I love short stories and I love short documentaries or short films of any kind.

Carol P. Christ

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

Carlos Delgado

I'm a simple guy. There's nothing fancy about my life.

Carlos Castaneda

The reason you keep on coming back to see me is very simple; every time you have seen me your body has learned certain things, even against your desire. And finally your body now needs to come back to me to learn more. Let's say that your body knows that it is going to die, even though you never think about it. So I've been telling your body that I too am going to die and before I do I would like to show our body certain things, things which you cannot give to your body yourself... So let's say then that your body returns to me because I am its friend

Carl Friedrich Gauss

As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D'Alembert's principle for dynamics, the latter is again reduced to statics. Although it is is very much in order that in gradual training of science and in the instruction of the individual the easier precedes the more difficult, the simple precedes the more complicated, the special precedes the general, yet the min, once it has arrived at the higher standpoint, demands the reverse process whereby all statics appears only as a very special case of mechanics.

Agnes Repplier

The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or to wealth are urged upon us by kindly, if not altogether disinterested, reformers. Simple and easy systems for the dissolution of discord and strife; simple and easy systems for the development of personality and power. Booklets of counsel on 'How to Get What We Want,' which is impossible; booklets on 'Visualization,' warranted to make us want what we get, which is ignoble.

Alan Kay

Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.

Charlie Crist

I've decided to do it, for the pure and simple reason that I just think it's the right thing to do.

Charlie Chaplin

Simplicity is not a simple thing.

Charles Wagner

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.

America Ferrera

There's something pretty awesome about staying with a character and growing.

Rob Machado

Truthfully, I despise hotels. I've had such better experiences staying at people's houses and guesthouses; it's so much more comfortable and homey.

Husnu Ozyegin

Getting to the top is not so easy; staying there is more difficult.

Chris Colfer

I think always staying focused and not taking things too seriously, but taking the important things seriously.

Lily James

There are other things I want to focus on rather than staying in shape.

Tinashe

I'm always about having integrity with my fans and staying true to what I say.

Bobby Jones

We were staying at the University of New Orleans, and it was awful, worse than you can imagine.

Henry Thomas

The idea of a film staying in theaters for a year is something of a fantasy today.

Scott Simon

Just pretty much staying within myself with my swing and not doing too much with it. That's usually when I'm at my best.

Carlos Beltran

I like to be aggressive. I like to swing the bat.

Charles Caleb Colton

False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.

Buddy Rich

But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.

Ray Giacoletti

We're having a tough time right now. We've just got to keep swinging and keep grinding.

Ashley Madekwe

I'm known for changing halfway through the day if my mood swings.

Brendan Fraser

George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that?

Brendan Fraser

To swing or not to swing? Swing.

Charlie Parker

I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music.

Bob Hope

You've got to be rich to have a swing like that.

Jeffrey Smith

We work within the system. I don't want to say we're rebellious.

Jeremy Duxbury

We will have to work within the budget.

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Roberto Azevedo

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Ann Strother

It?s just an unbelievable experience. To come into it and have no idea where you?re going to go and find out within minutes, I think it?s really exciting. I can?t wait.

Daryl Kimball

They say, 'we're within the treaty, we're within our rights'.