Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chinua Achebe

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

Chinua Achebe

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

Chinua Achebe

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

Brad Bird

Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level

Arthur C. Clarke

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

William Shakespeare

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.

Aeschylus

To learn is to be young, however old.

C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Markus Zusak

I am haunted by humans.

Edward G. Robinson

Nothing human is foreign to us

Charlotte Bronte

You are human and fallible.

Ben Affleck

I'm human, just like anybody else.

Anton Chekhov

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

Leroy Hood

What is unique about humans is their individuality.

Ben Okri

I know that human beings are capable of anything.

Edward Abbey

Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.

Noam Chomsky

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.