Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Bacon

For those who intend to discover and to understand, not to indulge in conjectures and soothsaying, and rather than contrive imitation and fabulous worlds plan to look deep into the nature of the real world and to dissect it -- for them everything must be sought in things themselves.

Ben Horowitz

I think there's a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.

Bradford Cohen

It wasn't contrived or a stunt -- that's the way I am.

Donald Selkin

You're seeing a knee-jerk reaction to the tremendous gain in energy prices. It's also a reaction to the contrived gain on Friday.

J. Stoltzfus

It was a contrived crisis. There never was a crisis.

Charles Spurgeon

I am not superstitious, but the first time I saw this medal, bearing the venerated likeness of John Calvin, I kissed it, imagining that no one saw the action. I was very greatly surprised when I received this magnificent present, which shall be passed round for your inspection. On the one side is John Calvin with his visage worn by disease and deep thought, and on the other side is a verse fully applicable to him: 'He endured, as seeing Him who is invisible.

Charles Spurgeon

You will never know God's strength until He has supported you in deep waters.

Lorraine Toussaint

How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite personally my God. I'm my greatest teacher, and within me, I have the power to push myself deeper and higher.

Tim Palmer

We've always been deep on the bench, ... and it just proves that we can play with any team.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Where there is much light, the shadow is deep

Bill Bray

When you walk off the train from New York, you see this dirt parking lot with deep ruts and tractor-trailers with graffiti on them. Welcome to New Brunswick.

Nicola Formichetti

It's so important as a creative person to go out and look for things. Go to galleries, talk to people, read books. Yes, you can just type something into Google, but if you read and interact, you'll have a deeper understanding of the world.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

There is nothing deeper than to work for a year with the same artist.

Herbert A. Simon

I think those who object to my characterizing man as simple want somehow to retain a deep mystery at his core.

Charlie Chaplin

In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.

Charles Caleb Colton

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.

Charles Dickens

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

Alan Arkin

But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things.

Alan Alda

Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries

Chogyam Trungpa

The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim the goodness and dignity of human life, without either hesitation or arrogance. Then magic can descend onto our existence.

Dmitri Mendeleev

We must expect the discovery of many as yet unknown elements-for example, elements analogous to aluminum and silicon- whose atomic weight would be between 65 and 75.

David Agus

We all need to figure out what's right for us because nothing about life is one size fits all. Even for an Olympian, that's for sure. And such discovery starts with you paying attention - to yourself.

David Talbot

FCU's PLS discovery has quickly become one of the most exciting stories in the uranium sector.

Jennifer Garner

It grosses me out. It's too sweet to read about or dissect or talk about.

Renee Fleming

Some of my first teachers were incredibly tough. You could never sing more than three words without being stopped and having to do it over 20 times. I loved that - that sort of process of dissecting and trying to figure out and master this incredibly mysterious instrument.

Eric Andre

I don't really know how music and comedy are similar. I try never to dissect it theoretically or academically.

Elizabeth Edwards

If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.

Robert Mintz

There is still no explosive evidence. Jurors will be expecting prosecutors to dissect their testimony with a scalpel.

O. Singh

The more we dissected into things and learned more about the ears and eyes, I felt it was amazing.

Vincent Cianfarani

It was a total team effort and shows what we've been working on in practice has been taken seriously. We've had a greater focus on rebounding and running sets when we need to. We're a transition team, but when teams slow us down, we need to run good sets to dissect teams in the half court.

Patric Verrone

This list and the films on it are meant to be scrutinized and criticized, dissected and collected, viewed and reviewed. They are the literature of our industry and the legacy of our union.

J. G. Ballard

Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.

Denny Green

Tony is a fabulous coach, ... He was ready for his head job. I just think it's all about opportunity.

Brian Eno

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.

Dan Campbell

She threw a fabulous game -- I'm very pleased with the way she threw. She showed me a lot. She's a competitor, but she really showed me a lot.

Grace Corrigan

She left a fabulous legacy. It's making people feel good about themselves, making kids feel they're important, making teachers be proud of themselves.

Mike Modano

J.R.'s had a fabulous career. He's put up some great numbers. He had a great start to his career, but mine was slower. He's always been a great player.

Jim Pate

Jim has put together a true partnership and has graciously shared the resources of his affiliate and Westchester with us. He's been just a fabulous resource and friend to the New Orleans affiliate.

Fred Rogers

I thought there was some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen,

Frank Haith

He had one of those nights. He's a fabulous player and showed it tonight.

Bruce Hensley

He is just a gem of a guy. A fabulous sense of humor.

Denis Waitley

We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.

Baltasar Gracian

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.

Edmund Burke

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.

Eric Hoffer

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Most imitators attempt the inimitable.

Ernst Moritz Arndt

Who has no own conviction dissipates himself in the imitation of others.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Jeaniene Frost

I’m the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

Bill Watterson

Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.

Cameron Diaz

One of the great things about being an actor is that you do get to indulge in someone else's life.

C. S. Lewis

The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.

Tom Lenk

You can't really indulge in anything when you're wearing a unitard. No bread, no beer, no anything delicious.

Janet Reno

Vengeance is a personal reaction. But not one that government can indulge in.

Sarah Kennedy

It incorporates all the trends in one product. It's healthy, indulgent and convenient.

Keith Belling

Like a lot of snackers, I recognized that snacking is an indulgence and is all about taste.

Neil Peart

If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.

Jerry Taylor

What I am asking, I guess, is do you intend to work on it?

Sarah Churchwell

'Sesame Street' was a pioneering educational T.V. show, intended to help underprivileged children. But even those of us middle-class kids spoilt for pedagogical choice couldn't get enough of it.

Donald Rumsfeld

sit down with the Russians in a way that's rational, and professional, and we don't intend to violate the treaty.

Dorothy Young

She looked so beautiful. I was so moved. I intended to say a prayer, but I forgot.

Michael Cunningham

We've been here for 150 years and we intend on being here 150 more.

Courtney Pratt

If other people see it differently, they'll see it the way they want to see it, but that's not what it's intended to do.

Mike Jones

I don't think it is right to use the petition system when you have no intention or likelihood of prevailing. That is not what the system was intended for and to misuse it now is reckless.

Ted Lavit

He never has, never intended to and never did.

Charlie Chaplin

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Charles Dudley Warner

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

Charles Dudley Warner

Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.

Charles Dudley Warner

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

Charles de Lint

"... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large it might be, was a perfect example of what it was."

Charles Dickens

The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in full splendor and shed her light on all the objects around; anon, driving over her again, with increased velocity, and shrouding everything in darkness.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

Charles Caleb Colton

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.

Charles Dickens

If Natur has gifted a man with powers of argeyment, a man has a right to make the best of 'em, and has not a right to stand on false delicacy, and deny that he is so gifted; for that is a turning of his back on Natur, a flouting of her, a slighting of her precious caskets, and a proving of one's self to be a swine that isn't worth her scattering pearls before.

Charles de Lint

There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.

Chogyam Trungpa

You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the sun shining and plants growing. The sun has no desire to create the vegetation; plants simply react to sunlight and the situation develops naturally.

Matt Miller

We know what we need to do. We plan for it, and we've done it before.

John Devine

very challenging, but we plan to get it done.

Dianna Agron

My back-up plan is always to take a trip. That's never a bad option. That's always a good option.

David Morrissey

Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

Phil Orlandella

There are (contingency) plans in place for strikes.

Bill Hogan

We still plan on sending out a notice,

Lori Murray

We started out planting 400 trees. They just seemed to do very, very well. We subsequently planted another 200 and then another 300 the third year.

Richard Berthelsen

We're insisting that it be sooner rather than later.

Thomas Mars

I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler.

Keeley Hawes

I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.

Suzanne Farrell

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

Michael Messner

She was rather abrasive and difficult, but it must've taken that kind of personality to survive and to do what she did in the 1960s.

Abigail Perkins

Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans.

Koyie Hill

I think they'd rather get somebody for me, though. It would look better.

Simon Leung

I think the timing is going to be more towards the end of this year rather than earlier.

Craig Berman

He really wants to get back to the work he's been doing for 15 years in search rather than running a company.

Sam Sheppard

Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter.

Beeban Kidron

During my 'difficult teens,' I read about worlds that were mysterious.

Hideo Kojima

When I was small, I was always thinking about different worlds in my head.