Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

Carl Sagan

The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star.

Bill Bryson

I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations.

Bill Bryson

I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I've never been before.

Bill Bryson

Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe.

Bill Bryson

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit...

Bill Bryson

I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.

Bill Bryson

Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.

Bill Taylor

If you want to create a memorable company, you have to fill your company with memorable people.

Bill Vaughan

Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane daily operations, the stuff that is left out of any analysis.

Blake Mycoskie

When you have a memorable story about who you are and what your mission is, your success no longer depends on how experienced you are or how many degrees you have or who you know. A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers, and opens doors.

Celia Green

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

Carol Burnett

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

Edward Snowden

I have no relationship with the Russian government at all.

Edward Snowden

The 'music' is not an open court and a fair trial.

Edward Snowden

I'm still working for the government.

Edward Snowden

These activities can be misconstrued, misinterpreted, and used to harm you as an individual, even without the government having any intent to do you wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

Our strife pertains to ourselves - to the passing generations of men; and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation

Becca Fitzpatrick

This was it. Together. Forever. As we left it all behind, the sun warmed my back, lighting the way before us. I knew of no better omen.

B. B. King

May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.

Billy Corgan

Time is never time at all. You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth. And our lives are forever changed. We will never be the same. The more you change, the less you feel.

Carrie Snodgress

I don't see myself being an actress forever.

Bernard Arnault

A good product can last forever.

Pierce Brosnan

I will forever be a Bond. It's a small group of men who've made this role. Someone said, More men have walked on the moon than have played James Bond.'

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed.

Bill Vaughan

There is no occasion for our rejoicing at a foe's death, because our own life will also not last forever.