Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only one subject is next tiresome to the man who knows no subject. Therefore, in the course of my life I have taught myself whatever I could, and although I am not an educated man, I am able, I am thankful to say, to have an intelligent interest in most things.

Alan Watts

For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization.

Alan Watts

But, as Douglas E Harding has pointed out, we tend to think of this planet as a life-infested rock, which is as absurd as thinking of the human body as a cell infested skeleton. Surely all forms of life, including man, must be understood as "symptoms" of the earth, the solar system, and the galaxy in which case we cannot escape the conclusion that the galaxy is intelligent.

Alan Watts

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

Alan Watts

Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—-to the “conquest” of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.

Alan Bennett

Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists?

Akio Morita

Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.

David Denby

Crash is hyper-articulate and often breathtakingly intelligent and always brazenly alive. I think it's easily the strongest American film since Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, though it is not for the fainthearted.

David Puttnam

As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a force for good. Especially in this ever-more complex and difficult world.

Arthur Bloch

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

Malcolm Bradbury

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

Emile Coue

From our birth to our death we are all the slaves of suggestion.

Jennifer Granholm

I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation.

Lasse Hallstrom

I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.

Mark Twain

Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.

Ted Koppel

What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were.

Tony Campolo

I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.

Charles Spurgeon

These heavy troubles are heralds of weighty mercies.

Chinua Achebe

There are things the story must have or else look incomplete. And these will almost automatically present themselves. When they don't, you are in trouble and then the novel stops.

Chinua Achebe

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership,

Chief Joseph

I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.

David Tang

If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.

Chad Everett

If not for my family, I would have been in big trouble.

Edith Stein

Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.

Dean Acheson

The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work.

Bertrand Russell

As soon as we abandon our reason and are content to rely on authority, there is no end to our troubles.