Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.

Dennis Prager

All of creation, in the biblical view, was to ultimately prepare the way for the creation of man. But one does not need the Bible alone to hold this view. A purely scientific reading of the universe is in keeping with this view. Everything - every natural and physical law - is exquisitely tuned to produce life, and ultimately man, on earth.

Dennis Haysbert

I knew that they were going to be reading actors for Manute, and I wanted to give it a shot. I wanted a shot to do it, and they embraced that and said, "All right, come on in. Let's see what you've got." So, I went in, and the rest is history. It felt good when I went into the office, and it just worked.

Deborah Smith

I suspected learning a language would be both useful and enjoyable (I love memorising lists of things), and would get rid of the embarrassment of being monolingual at 21. I'd been obsessed with reading for as long as I could remember, the only thing I'd ever thought I might want to be was a writer, but I was much better at crafting sentences than at stringing plots together.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God, who will thwart our plans and frustrate our ways time and again, even daily, by sending people across our path with their demands and requests. We can, then, pass them by, preoccupied with our important daily tasks, just as the priest-perhaps reading the Bible-passed by the man who had fallen among robbers. When we do that, we pass by the visible sign of the Cross raised in our lives to show us that God’s way, and not our own, is what counts.

Elbert Hubbard

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

Eleanor Roosevelt

the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.

Elizabeth Drew

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Elizabeth Bibesco

You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.

Alan Perlis

There is no such thing as a free variable.

Bill Parcells

I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.

Ambrose Bierce

Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.

B. F. Skinner

To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.

Terence McKenna

Time is a series of fluctuating variables.

Robert A. Heinlein

In a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.

Feist

But that constant adjustment and adaptation to your new environment, all the variables are the same. There's always a promoter, there's always a rider, there's always a shower, and there's always a stage.

James F. Cooper

Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often arise where language is as variable and undetermined as the English.

Luc de Clapiers

Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves.

Debra Winger

A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If religion is onlya garment of Christianityand even this garment has looked very different at different timesthen what is religionless Christianity?

Eleanor Porter

I love different folks.

Dirk Benedict

When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.

Aaron Eckhart

There are different reasons to make movies.

Alexander Wang

The things that you can't really foresee and that kind of surprise you, and a lot of times they are bad, but other times, they bring something different and new to the table.

Aberjhani

This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

Charles de Lint

When you're invisible, no one can see that you're different.

Alan Watts

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.