Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stross

An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties!

Charles Stanley

If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.

Alan Guth

Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

Alan Greenspan

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Refuse to be average.

Chip Kelly

Last time I checked, there is no 'Hall of Average.'

David Cross

I'm pretty happy. I obviously have complaints about things, but for the most part, I'm on the above-average side of happy people.

Buddy Rich

Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.

C. J. Cherryh

Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction.

Alan Paton

It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

Alan Moore

Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When the Holy Spirit is in full control of our lives, He will expect our obedience to the written Word of God. But it is part of our human problem that we would like to be full of the Spirit and yet go on and do as we please!

John Tortorella

We've won one game, that is it. I think what we did is just turn this into a series. ... As the series goes on, you have to play better. We know Ottawa is going to play better the third game.

John M. Ford

The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations.

Jack Horner

where it actually goes from land into the water.

McKayla Maroney

When you're competing, you have to wear a sleeve that goes all the way down to your wrist. When you're training, you usually don't wear long-sleeved leotards, so there's a difference between training and competing.

Nigel Barker

My go-to necktie is jet black, skinny, and simple. It goes with everything. I really like that mod-ish punk look.

Mel Rapozo

When you talk to the officers, it's pretty bad. Every day that goes by without some intervention, it's getting worse.

David McCullough

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David McCullough

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

C. Wright Mills

History is the shank of the social sciences.

Cesare Pavese

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

Cary Grant

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

E. Hicks

When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it.

Kurt Vonnegut

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

History! Read it and weep!

Edward Gibbon

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.

Charles Caleb Colton

In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.

Charles Caleb Colton

The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.

Charles Caleb Colton

It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing as they do on the vantage ground of former discoveries and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Charles Caleb Colton

The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.

Charles Caleb Colton

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

Charles Spurgeon

Let no knowledge satisfy but that which lifts above the world, which weans from the world, which makes the world a footstool.

Charles Stanley

We must never limit God's ability to turn even the worst, most vile experience in our lives into something productive, beneficial and positive.

David D. Burns

Learn to accept your limits and you'll become a happier person.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

We are not defined by our limits, but by our potential,

David Ricardo

Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange.

Carlos Mesa

I have reached a limit in my work.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.

Charles M. Schwab

There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.

Charles Gounod

Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the roughness of spurious force? Who has better known how to breathe anguish and dread into the purest and most exquisite forms?

Barbra Streisand

I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.

Chris Colfer

I'm really not good blackmail material.

Bob Newhart

You never know when you'll come upon something and it's going to be fodder for new material.

Aaron Copland

I don't compose. I assemble materials.

Peter Diamandis

We're not seeing any breakthroughs in physics or materials science here,

Brunello Cucinelli

I come from a farming culture, where we valued raw materials above all.

Don Brownlee

But the study of these materials will go on for decades.

Alexandra Stoddard

If we have authentic, honest, earthy materials in our houses, we'll be more authentic, honest and natural.

Dan Modzelewski

We're using materials that are very tough and very strong to withstand the weather.

Jim Adams

We're already working on getting prices on materials for the building.

Andrew Ramirez

We were treated very well, and we're doing good, ... We're healthy. As you can see, we're very happy. Mostly happy.

Isabella Rossellini

The first time I went to Hollywood, I was 25 years old. My background was mostly Italian.

Sigmar Polke

Light is a metaphoric thing. There is green light and red light. Then there is black light, which is mostly danger.

Donald Trump

I've always been covered by a press that's mostly financial press.

Chang-Rae Lee

I'm not the sort of writer who can plan out things. Mostly I have no idea where I'm going.

Nathan Lane

Relationships, for me, have been elusive. And I would say mostly it's been my fault. I was always more concentrated on my career. And yes, you do question people's motives. Is it just because I'm him - I'm Nathan Lane?

Mary Wilson Little

It is difficult to see why lace should be so expensive; it is mostly holes.

Oren Peli

The thing that scares me is a place like the Amazon - which is the size of the continental U.S. and mostly unexplored and has a different ecosystem, there are so many things in there that can kill you.

Mike Farrell

It's mostly the financial chicanery that's going on. People are saying 'What kind of trust can we put in this market?'

Sibel Edmonds

When you think of al-Qaeda, you are not thinking of al-Qaeda in terms of one particular country, or one particular organization.

Robert Mueller

As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there.

Samuel L. Jackson

She has been in here several times before but that particular day I don't remember her.

Jill Soloway

So many features at Sundance seemed to be powered more on the director's need to be a director than any particular story.

Frank Quattrone

I don't follow any particular periodical anymore. I use Twitter as my customized news feed.

Nathaniel Philbrick

'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.

Warren Littlefield

The writers and actors on 'Friends' were notoriously particular about what made it onto the air.

Aaron Patzer

Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.

Bennie Thompson

Today's terrorists do not share a particular ethnic, educational or socioeconomic background.

Bill Pullman

The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.

David Brin

What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

Jiro Yamaguchi

What we're seeing is a result of Koizumi's diminishing popularity -- the 'Koizumi effect' is wearing off.

Baltasar Gracian

There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.

Todd Young

We're getting in their face. And I'm sure it's not very popular with management.

Bob Beatty

She's ahead, she's popular -- she's not completely unbeatable.

Ferdinand Lassalle

Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.

Ravi Shankar

I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PLEBISCITE, n. A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.

Eric Fischl

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

David Gerke

The primary word is ?fun'; it's about fun.

Phil Palmer

The paving work will be done by Nielsen Construction as a sub-contractor and not by the primary contractors.

Bonnie MacPherson

It can't be someone's primary residence. That's very much intact.

Richard Giannini

The one thing that has been a primary priority has been facilities. That's the vision that we've got to continue. We've made tremendous upgrades since the year 2000.

Phil Wold

They need to let us know what their primary source is and if they have a backup.

John Boyega

I've been acting since I was 5 years old, from primary school to secondary school, did training at drama school, which was the big thing for me because they trained me, put me out into the industry.

Peter Mills

the shape of this primary is not yet firmed up.

James Wallace

Before you can play basketball, you need to make the grades. That's my primary concern.

Ed Walker

This is the first time any scholarly work has been done on him.

Tom Zbikowski

We are a little uneasy but the secondary will make plays. After we get settled in you will see that we make plays.

Gerald Temples

I was sick of that. Our secondary didn't play very well.

Nicholas DiNubile

I would say a brace should be a secondary consideration,

Don Miguel Ruiz

The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else's story.

Nancy Keller

We now have a new tool we can use to find secondary metabolites that are of pharmaceutical interest.

Art Briles

The quarterback part, to me, is secondary to him as a person. His background, being from West Texas, tough, unselfish, not spoiled ... he's a can't-miss guy, in my opinion.

Jacques Rossouw

These are secondary analyses and are exploratory to some extent.

Francis Gaskins

This is just a warm-up for a big secondary (offering). If they were serious about selling, they'd sell more than 6 percent.

Mick Jagger

I'm very much against the secondary ticket market. I don't know anyone who isn't.

Nigel Kneale

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.

Paul Souza

We're sort of bucking the trend a little bit.

Candace Parker

What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.

Julia Mancuso

We're just used to it. Every race, there's always some stuff that happens, whether it's a teammate or not. You sort of have to refocus at the start and go.

Sarah Snook

I always wanted to do some sort of action film - even a superhero movie - and when 'Lucy' came out, I was like, 'That's what I want to do.'

Lyle Bauer

What we didn't want was it to be sort of a one-hit wonder.

Kiesza

I tend to sort of dive into things without worrying about risk or anything. Like, when I get an idea, I tend to just go for it and see what happens.

Becky Sarro

She's always been a very intrepid sort of girl.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

When I'm on the set, I'll come up with ideas if I'm sort of just between responsibilities, because there's a lot of sitting around on set. Invariably, though, the stuff I come up with on the set tends to be bad.

Emile M. Cioran

Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.

Francis Crick

Moreover the incorporation requires the same components needed for protein synthesis, and is inhibited by the same inhibitors. Thus the system is most unlikely to be a complete artefact and is very probably closely related to genuine protein synthesis.

Evan Parker

A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when something comes that is more than the sum of the parts.

Julian Huxley

Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.

Soren Kierkegaard

Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited.