Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol P. Christ

Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.

Carlos Castaneda

For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.

Carlos Castaneda

The path to knowledge is a forced one. In order to learn, we must be pushed. On the path of knowledge we are always fighting something, avoiding something, preparing for something; and that something is always inexplicable, greater and more powerful than us.

Carl Bernstein

The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we, too often are squandering our power and ignoring our obligations. The consequence of our abdication of responsibility is the ugly spectacle of idiot culture!

C. S. Lewis

A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.

Pat Gelsinger

We have new platforms, new process technology and new products. It's a very powerful one-two-three.

Alan Turing

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

Alan Turing

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain...

Alan Kay

Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

Alan Watts

You're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe.

Alan Moore

We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.

Brian Henson

And then after the success at Melbourne Comedy Festival, then we regrouped back in LA and we went back into workshopping and decided to develop a proper show and that's when we started working on "Stuffed and Unstrung," which is a much bigger and sharper version of "Puppet Up."

Brian Henson

We took a show to the Aspen Comedy Festival, called "Puppet Up" at that point, and in Aspen we just did three shows, and in Aspen, there was a producer from the Edinborough Fringe Festival, who said, "Please come to Edinborough."

Madeleine Albright

Mahmoud Abbas is a puppet.

Bob Balaban

If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.

Edith Wharton

They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.

Henry Selick

Puppets seem like vampires sometimes. They live, and you're depleted.

Daniel Tosh

You know who likes to get fisted? Sock puppets.

Ellen McLaughlin

The sensation of flying is incredible, and it's such a miraculous notion to go into the air and see the world without delineation.

Adam Roberts

Two regular people have worked to make something miraculous happen.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Scientific thought and the miraculous unconscious are two waves in the same ocean.

Ehud Barak

We are not talking about a miraculous solution.

Steve Kernkraut

I think they're only in the first or second inning of a turnaround. They've done a miraculous job, but I think there's much more to come.

David Parton

I think it's a miraculous recovery. I think she's doing wonderful.

Kofi Annan

You have to have some hope, otherwise I wouldn't be getting into this exercise, ... It may take some time. I don't think we are going to have a miraculous breakthrough, but at least it's a beginning.