Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pericles

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

Alfred North Whitehead

Knowledge keeps no better than fish.

Latin Proverbs

He fishes well who uses a golden hook.

August Krogh

There can be little doubt that fishes swimming rapidly do not make respiratory movements at all, but obtain the necessary ventilation of the gills simply by opening the mouth.

John Heywood

All is fish that comth to net.

George Eliot

Net the large fish and you are sure to have the small fry.

George Bernard Shaw

How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .

Karl A. Menninger

It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.

Maxine Hong Kingston

How unlike a dead fish a live fish is.

Ann Brashares

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Things were happening around us, but nothing was happening between us.

Orson Welles

What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other

Hank Azaria

Politics is topical - it's what's happening now, and we can either respond in the present or avoid it.

Rachel Cohn

So much is happening and yet nothing at all.

Lillian Hellman

You don't always know how to do things when they're happening.

Mitch Albom

Something is always happening somewhere.

Sri Aurobindo

Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.

Charles Dickens

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

Charles Dickens

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

Alan Perlis

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

Alain Prost

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

Al Pacino

Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

Akshay Kumar

I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.

David McCullough

The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind.

David McCullough

When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They meant the pursuit of learning. The pursuit of improvement and excellence. In hard work is happiness.

David Krumholtz

Hail, Caesar! is about, in my opinion - I love that movie - but I think it's about the idea that as glamorous as the business is, and for as much hoopla that surrounds moviemaking, ultimately it's just a job. If you focus on it, you can do it really well, and it takes a lot of hard work.