Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Scalzi

People imagine that there are rituals, like lighting candles or sacrificing chickens. They really just want to know what the magic formula is for writing. I inevitably disappoint them by saying you just put your butt in the chair, and you write 500 words a day, and then you get up and repeat it the next morning.

King Tuff

I love Hanukkah because it's so weird. You just sit there and light candles and say spells.

Keith Richard

There is no clear plan until the music is telling you what to do. It yelled at us, 'Do not overproduce me. Do not put the icing and the marzipan and the candles on.'

Susan Isaacs

My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island Jewish housewife who turns private investigator. But she was Jewish the way I was: lighting Sabbath candles but envying her Protestant and Catholic friends' December decorating options.

Adlai E. Stevenson

She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.

Gedde Watanabe

Sixteen Candles was my first film. I was 28 years old studying Shakespeare in New York, and it just freaked me out that this thing got so well known.

Buddha

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Cristela Alonzo

We grew up devout Catholics, so my trips to San Juan always include going to the churches that we used to go to and lighting candles and everything. Everything I do in San Juan is what I used to do with my mom, kind of as a tribute to her.

Bobby Lee

I think people just think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I'm one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff.

Chamfort

Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last

Michael Klim

People have been writing us off, people who don't have the knowledge or expertise.

Luigi Pirandello

Our whole knowledge of the world hangs on this very slender thread: the re-gu-la-ri-ty of our experiences

Maurice Cheeks

Players have a lot of knowledge. It would be silly of me to say if they suggest something that I wouldn't look at it.

Bernard Beckett

A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.

Bertrand Russell

Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then suchand such another proposition is true of that thing.... Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Bertrand Russell

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

Bertrand Russell

History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition of all the rest. That all knowledge, as such, is in some degree good, would appear to be at least probable; and the knowledge of every historical fact possesses this element of goodness, even if it posses no other.

Bertrand Russell

All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.

Adam Howard

Our lights are probably on until 3 in the morning because there is always somebody here doing something.

Yiddish Proverbs

Some people are electrifying, they light up a room when they leave.

Frank Anzures

Our XD80U is smaller and lighter than most laptops, making it perfect for the mobile presenter.

Grant Wilson

Robert was a shining light in a day of unrelenting gloom.

Dan Wheeler

Physically, having yesterday completely off was huge. We had a light workout today and we're ready to go.

Colleen Jones

Maybe I'll take a little consolation in realizing that ? even if I'd played lights out too, she was just going to one-up me all the time.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it.

Beck

Sometimes, reissues can be revelatory, or put the original record in a different light, but those are rare.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Light had a way of keeping the monsters of my imagination at bay.

Ken Auletta

Sure we play rough, they said, but look what others do to us.

Tim Finchem

Stature is something that we don't determine. Others determine.

Tom Donahoe

Some have durability issues. Others haven't produced for more than one season. They're kind of all clumped together and no one has really separated himself.

William Butler Yeats

Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.

Ed Abner

Others had contacted her, but these were the two others she seriously considered.

Genghis Khan

It is not sufficient that I suceed - all others must fail.

John Connors

Like many others in the industry, we are seeing slowing PC sales as the quarter progresses.

Dolores Smitley

I was the one who was always telling the others how to do things because I had more experience.

Lalit Modi

If others want to play they can. Why should we play in October?