Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.

Kurtwood Smith

If I had not gotten along so well with some of the people on the show, it would have been a different story. But in this case, it was great. But sure, it will be fun to look around.

Kumail Nanjiani

I've found that the common humanity of people is the most relatable thing, and even if your stories are very specific about a different place, if you have a relatable core of humanity, people will go along with it.

David Smith

Like a powerful medication, the Internet has a revolutionary impact on global business, and it is hard to imagine a firm that has not been affected. Unfortunately, along with the benefits come many side effects that have the potential to dramatically erode productivity and pose many other dangers to the enterprise and to employees, themselves. That is why it is so vital to carefully monitor employee Internet use. This study confirms that uncontrolled employee Internet use is a very serious threat to compliance, security and productivity.

Gary Warner

Lighting is too expensive, so we plan to lease the lights from TECO. The cost of electricity will be passed on to businesses along the road.

Stacy Schiff

Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss proportions, tactlessness, a high tolerance for archival dust. Most of all it calls for an act of displacement. 'To find your subject, you must in some sense lose yourself along the way,' is Richard Holmes's version.

John Seabrook

Like Honeycrisp, SweeTango has much larger cells than other apples, and when you bite into it, the cells shatter rather than cleaving along the cell walls, as is the case with most popular apples. The bursting of the cells fills your mouth with juice. Chunks of SweeTango snap off in your mouth with a loud cracking sound.

Joe Morgan

Make no mistake about it, we lost a generation of inner-city players along the way. I think that starting today, with the opening of the field here in Compton, we will stop the erosion of inner-city players.

Christopher Cross

Lyrically and thematically, the title 'Doctor Faith', that song is about therapy, psychotherapy, and that song is about emotions and personal insight. I think all the songs on the record sort of go along with that.

Reed PhD

Leadership without support is like trying to make bricks without enough straw. True leaders reinforce their ideas and plans with strategic partnerships, alliances and supportiveaudiences.

Johnson Honimae

Mobs and looters have been hurling rocks and bricks at passing patrol police vehicles.

D. James

Of course a sports psychologist can help - it's certainly helped me. People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete.

Gerry Purdy

No one likes to carry a brick around, and this is the smallest, thinnest, lightest device that has all those combined features.

John Barlow

I fought it hammer and tong, but the drummers had inoperable bricks in their head about it. What's worse is that they now want to remove all Dead music from the Web.

Wren Elhai

Getting in touch with Iraqis has not been the insurmountable challenge it seemed to be at the start. You run into more brick walls trying to get someone in the U.S. military to talk to you.

Buster Perkins

I had hit a brick wall. I had gotten injured, and my grades were failing and I had to do something.

Shannan Bergen

She's a kid that'll go through a brick wall for you.

Bill Jr

Time marches on. We've got a wonderful new facility under construction and it's Busch Stadium - it's just different bricks and mortar.

Jack Scoville

Places further north haven't seen much rain. At flowering time you need to see an increase in rain. A month from now it could be a problem.

Marco Brambilla

Usually, the energy in elevators is so awkward; I mean, I can't imagine the politics in the ones in the Conde Nast building.

Steve Jobs

Motorola did the phone. I could imagine other products in the future.

Brian Dawkins

Mentally, I just can't imagine what he's going through right now. But he's tough. He's going to push through this. I'm sure he'll do whatever it takes to get back.

Jan Block

No one ever says I CAN imagine losing two sons. They always say they CAN'T imagine losing two children.

Ken Warwick

One, we don't need to these days. There's a queue from the record companies, as you can probably imagine because we have 30 million people-plus each week tune in, and so we don't need to go hunting, as it were.

Jenn Lyon

My goal was simply to be a working actress. I never imagined myself on Broadway.

Zach Lund

Never in a million years did I imagine that it could be used for something else that was not legal.

Debbie Gibson

I can't even imagine seeing someone else. I've never had any problems at all. He's been wonderful.

Lisa Fernandez

I can't even imagine not being in the same state, the same city, as him.

William Ginsburg

Monica has many friends at the White House.

Linda Tripp

It was never about Monica Lewinsky. It was never about me.

Christian Bale

I put on weight like Santa Claus. I just get this belly that kind of extends out.

Samuel Butler

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

Enrique Garcia

We're like their Santa Claus. It's kind of special and we make them feel normal.

Ludwig von Mises

The Santa Claus principle liquidates itself.

Al Smith

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

Daniel Handler

Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-” “It’s Herman Melville.

Esther Dyson

I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.

H. L. Mencken

God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat.

Jim Butcher

I felt like I had just double-tapped Santa.

Alexandra Paul

I've always preferred food be on the blander side.

S. Walker

One will be right here and the other will be other side of the ramp, diagonally.

Roger Szendy

New Fairfield is on the other side of the lake, and there would be a lot of time spent just trying to stay organized.

Tessanne Chin

I think on stage there's a side of me that comes out that's very fierce and confident.

Eleanor Porter

Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.

Ehud Barak

I'm such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides.

Eric Herzik

I don't think he's going to want to let this go unanswered. You don't want to see it (the rating) slip any more, or you're on the wrong side of the equation.

Abraham Lincoln

I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.

Claude Mandil

On the refining side we need regulations to be predictable.

Todd Campbell

It's one of those smells you can't describe,

Dan Wakefield

I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.

Baltasar Gracian

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.

Baltasar Gracian

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Chris Faidley

I know how to say 'faster' and 'defend' in Bosnian, Spanish and Creole.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English.

Oscar Wilde

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Dean Wareham

We are drowning in a sea of Myspace, blather, and too much information. Music is everywhere and nowhere. The independent record store is the solution, a place staffed by friendly (or not) people who are actually paid to weed through this crap and help you find the good stuff.

Elbert Hubbard

Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted.

Ben Jonson

Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.

Abraham Lincoln

Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

Harvey Mackay

Don't water your weeds.

William Shakespeare

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up tine, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.

William Shakespeare

Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones; Who, though they cannot answer my distress, Yet in some sort they are better than the tribunes, For that they will not intercept my tale: When I do weep, they humbly at my feet Receive my tears and seem to weep with me; And, were they but attired in grave weeds, Rome could afford no tribune like to these.

William Shakespeare

Through the forest have I gone. But Athenian found I none, On whose eyes I might approve This flower's force in stirring love. Night and silence.--Who is here? Weeds of Athens he doth wear: This is he, my master said, Despised the Athenian maid; And here the maiden, sleeping sound, On the dank and dirty ground. Pretty soul! she durst not lie Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy. Churl, upon thy eyes I throw All the power this charm doth owe. When thou wakest, let love forbid Sleep his seat on thy eyelid: So awake when I am gone; For I must now to Oberon.

Aaron Lewis

I rarely drink from the bottle, but I'll smoke a little weed,

Mel Brooks

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.

James Arness

What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.

Eckhart Tolle

Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension.

Edward Norton

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

Bruce Campbell

Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die.

Ayn Rand

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

Frank Mauro

Western New York is probably characterized more by stagnancy than anything else.

Will Hobbs

I do have two wonderful awards from the Western Writers of America, one for 'Beardance' and the other for 'Far North.' The award is called the Spur, and the plaques really do have spurs on them!

Clint Eastwood

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

Alexander Theroux

Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.

David Quammen

The elk are the most abundant large herbivores in the Yellowstone ecosystem. There are thousands and thousands of them. They migrate in and out. And those migration routes need to stay open.

Derek Jarman

Indian yellow, banned. Cows were poisoned with mango leaves and the colour was made from their urine. It is the bright yellow in Indian miniatures. Although yellow occupies one-twentieth of the spectrum, it is the brightest colour.

Edgar Degas

What a horrible thing yellow is.

Aimee Bender

Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.

Eddie Huang

I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.

David Henry Hwang

Yellow Face marks my summation of multiculturalism.

Craig Kilborn

Today Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge lowered the terror alert from orange to yellow. Does anybody need 16 miles of duct tape?

Brian Regan

The big yellow one is the sun!