Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Fixx

Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.

Atharva Veda

O camel-like mind, you are so fickle; give up your cleverness and corruption.

Michael Pachter

My guess is they want to sell high- definition discs. You want to get the high-definition monitor owners drooling. It's clever marketing.

Robert Harris

My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspaper, always watched the news, discussed it all the time.

Tina Brown

Obama's gift for delivering set-piece oratorical tours de force had special resonance to Americans fed up with a president who could hardly string two words together without a collision of syntax and whose idea of clever was the single entendre.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.

Edsger Dijkstra

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

Warren Spector

From a gameplay standpoint, I've said for years that hero, fiction, and tone have nothing to do with the idea that choices have consequences. And that's really what I'm interested in. I care about you showing how clever and creative you are.

Elizabeth Bowen

Mr. [Aldous] Huxley has been the alarming young man for a long time, a sort of perpetual clever nephew who can be relied on to flutter the lunch party. Whatever will he say next? How does he think of those things? He has been deplored once or twice, but feeling is in his favor: he is steadily read. He is at once the truly clever person and the stupid person's idea of the clever person; he is expected to be relentless, to administer intellectual shocks.

Richard P. Feynman

Working out another system to replace Newton's laws took a long time because phenomena at the atomic level were quite strange. One had to lose one's common sense in order to perceive what was happening at the atomic level.

Richard P. Feynman

First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.

Joel Bernstein

Like anything, ... you got to use some common sense.

Scott Pelley

Lt. Col. Ronald Stallings told investigators, quote, 'he had no idea,' end quote, that prisoners were being chained overhead for 24 hours and more. What you seem to be saying is that it was common knowledge.

Guy Burgess

Search for Common Ground has done some very interesting things. They've figured out that costs of mass media productions in third-world countries is miniscule, especially given the new technologies, compared to what you'd expect to spend to make it into the mass TV market in the United States.

Reza Aslan

Mike Huckabee and indeed many of the Christian conservatives in the U.S. have far more in common with the Muslim Brotherhood than they'd like to admit, in that all of them very much want to see a role of religion in society.

Janet Yellen

Models used to describe and predict inflation commonly distinguish between changes in food and energy prices - which enter into total inflation - and movements in the prices of other goods and services - that is, core inflation.

Rick Applegate

much more comes out on how common the practice was.

Jim Sutton

My feeling is that the US domestic support proposal will have a comparable effect to the European Union's 2003 reform of its Common Agricultural Policy,

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Albert Schweitzer

All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind.

Albert Schweitzer

Kindness works simply and perseveringly; it produces no strained relations which prejudice its working; strained relations which already exist it relaxes. Mistrust and misunderstanding it puts to flight, and it strengthens itself by calling forth answering kindness. Hence it is the furthest reaching and the most effective of all forces.

Albert Schweitzer

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

Barry Switzer

Lovely? Well, thank you. That's kind of nice of you to say.

Japanese Proverbs

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

S. Walker

We had been doing a lot better but didn't have much to show for it. Getting this win just kind of validated that.

Dusty Baker

When I look at my score sheet and I look at theirs, I'm kind of outmanned. I've never been in that situation in September. It's just one of those years, I guess.

Dusty Baker

When I look at my score sheet and I look at theirs, I'm kind of outmanned, ... I've never been in that situation in September. It's just one of those years, I guess.

Charles Spurgeon

No man can do me a truer kindness in this world than to pray for me.

David Davis

Morale is at the lowest point since I've been here.

David Lagercrantz

My father was highbrow: writing long biographies of Dante and stuff like that. Ghostwriting sportsman memoirs? That was sort of the lowest of the low.

Jim Puckett

When you're a cash-strapped school system, you're going to go to the lowest bidder. The lowest bidders are the ones who are going to export.

Dave Dasgupta

Traditionally the first and second quarters have the lowest losses.

Richard Daley

A newspaper is the lowest thing there is.

Vijay Singh

Tomorrow I've got to do it again, I have to shoot the lowest round I possibly can.

Leslie Cockburn

When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet people.

Mark Kantrowitz

It is and it isn't. It is from the point of view that rates are the lowest they've ever been.

Alexey Miller

A common price isn't the lowest price. It will most obviously be the highest price.

Penn Badgley

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.

Lou Mazzucchelli

There could be all sorts of other stuff, too.

Rudolph Penner

I think they're going to squeeze out all sorts of other spending items.

Jason Anderson

I know it's got a lot of sports fields. We're going to set all sorts of records.

Michael Leunig

In my journey as a cartoonist, I seem to have accidentally stumbled into all sorts of traps, damnations and blacklists.

Michelle Monaghan

I'm not so Hollywood; I live in New York, so it's very normal. I don't have many friends in the industry. My friends come from all sorts of different backgrounds and careers.

John Hurt

I've done all sorts of children's things before, but none as big as 'Harry Potter.'

April Pearson

I'd quite like to try all sorts of different things, whether it be theatre, TV or film.

Yotam Ottolenghi

A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.

Source Unknown

One thing you can give and still keep is your word.

Joe Wurzelbacher

In my dictionary, and everyone's dictionary in the 1970s, the word 'queer' did mean strange and unusual. There was no slur to it.

Philippe Petit

On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me.

Mary Evans

If we have the Word let us/ say it/ If we have the Word let us/ be it/ If we have the Word let us/ DO.

Ryan Church

Shocked. Only word I can say. That's it: shocked.

Toba Beta

I do not say words, which you want to hear. The words just told me, to write them down.

Mike Johnson

We've done an hour-and 15-minute workouts and not said a word to each other.

Charles Dickens

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

Charles Dickens

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!