Famous Quotes & Sayings

Konrad Lorenz

'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.

Woody Harrelson

Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, 'Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people, maybe we could dilute it down and spray it on our crops to deal with pests.'

Ezra Koenig

If kids and teenagers can get into a band, it's probably not because they think it's brainy.

Samantha Fox

You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.

Karl Pilkington

At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

Joseph Roux

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Michael Leunig

An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose chase. It can help to make you miserable, or dull and nasty and insipid, or profoundly stupid in the special way that 'brainy' people can be.

Kylie Minogue

I'd definitely love to do more acting. My heart cries out for it; it's such a deep longing.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Men come and they go and they trot and they dance, and never a word about death. All well and good. Yet when death does come - to them, their wives, their children, their friends - cathcing them unawares and unprepared, then what storms of passion overwhelm them, what cries what fury, what despair!

Douglas Carter Beane

My favorite moments are the moments everyone cries over. I see people in the audience crying, and I go, 'I did that, too. I don't just do the jokes. I also do the cries.' Jokes and cries, jokes and cries. That's all I'm here for, people.

Sathya Baba

No one will go to the rescue of a drowning man if his cries are feeble. 

Nazrul Islam

We can hear noises of cries for help.

Eddie White

We've finally listened to the cries of women who wanted NFL product.

Donna Norris

He never met Amber, but it's still hard for him. He cries and he has to stop. But he likes to help me, and her.

Jose Mujica

The world cries out for global rules that respect the achievements of science.

Jeanne Young

Woe is me, she cries out, a time of tribulation hangs over head like a dark cloud...yet through internal contradictions, she is grateful.

Dustin Moskovitz

I'm not really sure where it comes from, but every time I meet someone who says 'I really want to be an entrepreneur' but has no idea what they want to do, I really just think: 'This person is totally aimless.'

Grady Fuson

Show me that somebody that says winning is not a part of development, I'll show you a loser.

Derek Walker

She says things like 'Mama, my stuff is all wet,'

Charlie Brown

We still have a ways to go, but this says a lot about our kids.

Olivia Munn

I'm very open about the fact that it's nice when someone says you're pretty. Especially for someone like me.

Sharon Stone

I'm relentless. My mother says I could sell ice to the Eskimos.

Wim Wenders

Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making.

Fred Ray

This says a lot for our offense. We can make plays. We just need to keep it going.

Scott Riggs

We want to come out of here with a solid run. I want to come out of here with a top 10. The team says a top 15, but that won't be satisfactory to me.