Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Pacino

I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner - and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.

Chogyam Trungpa

In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product dependent upon cause and effect and therefore liable to dissolution. Anything which is created must, sooner or later, die. If enlightenment were created in such a way, there would always be a possibility of ego reasserting itself, causing a return to the confused state. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.

Chogyam Trungpa

A great deal of chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves. Having never developed sympathy or gentleness toward themselves, they cannot experience harmony or peace within themselves, and therefore, what they project to others is also inharmonious and confused.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I believe people instinctively know that about writing, yet people get confused about that when it comes to acting.

Chinua Achebe

I have so many ideas; there are so many things that need to be done, so many possibilities, you know; one is terribly excited, but at the same time, you're almost confused, because you don't know where to begin.

Byron Katie

Do you know anyone who hasn't changed his mind? This door was a tree, then it will be firewood for someone, then it will return to air and earth. We're all like that, constantly changing. It's simply honest to report that you've changed your mind when you have. When you're afraid of what people will think if you speak honestly, that's where you become confused.

Catherynne M. Valente

He tried to reconstruct the story in his mind, but it kept getting confused, bleeding into itself like watercolors.

John Roberts

When a liver becomes cirrhotic, those are the common complications. We see that the patients have bleeding from their stomach and intestines. They have abdomens that become full of fluid. Their ankles swell with the same type of fluid, and they also can become confused and not themselves. Those are kind of the main things that we see when people get end-stage liver disease and have cirrhosis.

Charles Lindbergh

We talk about spreading democracy and freedom all over the world, but they are to us words rather than conditions. We haven't even got them here in America, and the farther we get into this war the farther we get away from democracy and freedom. Where is it leading us to, and when will it end? The war might stop this winter, but that is improbable. It may go on for fifty years or more. That also is improbable. The elements are too conflicting and confused to form any accurate judgment of its length. There may be a series of wars, one after another, going on indefinitely.

Charles Caleb Colton

We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.

Alan Rickman

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

Alan Moore

There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

Alan Greenspan

It's a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.

Akshay Kumar

I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Let her love God as He is in Himself, and not as her imagination says He is, and pictures Him.

Chris Cooper

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

Chris Brown

I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.

Chris Abani

What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are.

Edgar Degas

One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.

Eli Whitney

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor,

Craig McHugh

The patent application was to protect our invention. As you can see . . . the invention is significant.

Sydney Smith

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

Alexander Graham Bell

Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions

Adolf Hitler

Conscience is a Jewish invention.

Alfred North Whitehead

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

Chuck Palahniuk

I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn't my invention.

Andy Kindler

Some of my inventions didn't take off. I invented a url lengthener.