Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped. Diffidence, therefore, which is so able a mentor to the writer, would prove a dangerous counsellor for the orator.

David Booker

We knew they were going to sag on me, so coach (Brain) Brooks told our guards to hit some shots.

Don Cooper

That whole thing about, 'Hey, ex-catchers are the best managers.' Listen, pitching coaches have some brains, too. Sometimes they're not all there, but sometimes they are.

David Brooks

The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the emotions, reactions, hopes and desires of the mind.

David Allen

Decide the outcome and the action step, put reminders of those somewhere your brain trusts youll see them at the right time, and listen to your brain breathe easier.

David H. Murdock

We have developed a culture in which we eat with our taste buds, not our brains.

Dave Barry

The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.

David Suzuki

Conventional economics is a form of brain damage.

Buffalo Bill

Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.

David Booker

We knew they were going to sag on me, so coach (Brain) Brooks told our guards to hit some shots.

Ato Boldon

We are making a little portion of their brains be sprinters; they are 100 percent football players, but for these purposes, they must learn the proper way to run.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Stephen Hawking's been watching too many Hollywood movies. I think the only kind aliens in Hollywood are the ones created by Steven Spielberg - 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and 'E.T.,' for example. All other aliens are trying to suck our brains out.

Terence

They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head

Kevin Rose

One of the things that I've always loved to do is brainstorm ideas with friends and get together and talk about what they're building... Essentially, my day-to-day is just going around and meeting entrepreneurs and talking to them about what they plan on launching.

Brian Billick

So I hear they call you 'The Freak?' Wow, that's quite a coincidence. They call me 'The Brain.'

Wendie Malick

She (Nina) really is the queen of non sequiturs ... There are a lot of missing links in this woman's brain,

George Leonard

The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself

Charles W. Pickering

Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.

Charles Spurgeon

I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.

Alan Bennett

A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.

Djuna Barnes

Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won’t stick out.

David Sedaris

My feet are completely flat, but for most of my life they were still shaped like feet. Now, thanks to bunions, they're shaped more like states, wide boring ones that nobody wants to drive through.

David Mitchell

Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.

Dave Barry

UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons.

Bruno Latour

Be not the one who debunks but the one who assembles, not the one who lifts the rugs from under the feet of the naive believers but the one who offers arenas in which to gather.

Bryan Stevenson

Once we had a rail station in Montgomery that connected to Columbus and went all the way up to Virginia, slave traders could transport thousands of slaves at a fraction of the cost than they could transport by boat, and certainly by foot. And that's how Montgomery became such an active slave-trading space.

Charles Stross

I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If I empty out half of my life, God can only fill half...God will fill as much of us as we allow Him to fill.

David R. Brower

There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium.

Linda Flohr

We started slow today. In the second half we played with better intensity than we did in the first half.

Kristy Curry

We are at the turn, we are halfway around the track. It's just about respecting Michigan State and approaching like we have the other seven (Big Ten games).

Jim Mott

We struggled a little and they made it very hard to penetrate the middle. We made some adjustments at halftime and played better.

Robert Bates

We started off slow, ... but in the second half we really pulled away.

Dean Montzingo

We started each half missing a wide-open lay-up, and that kind of set the tone. My top three scorers couldn't find the basket.

Jeff Carter

We spent the whole second period in the box. It wears half the team down. We can't be doing that. It kills us.

George Burley

We have plenty of back-up on the left-hand side so we have let Joe speak to Leicester.

Gregg Williams

From the day that Joe Gibbs walked in here, he had their trust because of what he had accomplished in the past.

Susan Cook

I don't remember Little Joe ever stealing a car,

Rick Halprin

Joey was always slim and he's not now.

Dawn Ostroff

Joey and Lance are such fun, interesting people and they truly are an odd couple.

Bob Lilley

Joey and J.J. matched up well up front. We were unlucky not to get a second and third.

Rocky Gibson

Joey and Brent made the most of the opportunities they had tonight.

Patrick Sparks

Joe was in there mixing it up. That's what we needed.

Al Horford

Joe was all over the place. He was terrific.

Douglas Preston

My hobbies are mountain biking, horseback riding and packing, canoeing and kayaking, hiking, camping, cooking, and skiing.

Robert Gottlieb

Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most.

Lew Ford

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. also attributed to Mary Kay Ash

Misha Collins

I've been a river kayaker for a long time and I've done quite a few trips. I like kayaking and I like canoeing. I don't really like being on yachts or sailboats or cruise ships. I don't like anything that's large and not human-powered.

Warren Buffett

Always associate yourself with people who are better than you.

Bill Fennelly

We were trying to go for a quick two or (go) in and right back out. They were switching everything, so we were trying to go quickly to the basket.

David Wright

We're going to need to find it real quick if we're going to stay in this thing.

Jackie Payne

We're ready to take it nationwide. Really, that's unlimited. It's scary how quick it could grow.

John Steinbeck

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Kelly Thompson

She's very strong. And she has a lot of quickness as well.

Michelle Davis

She's very contemplative and thinks through situations thoroughly, but can think ... very quickly as well.

Jace Hymas

She's real quick and athletic. I think it took a little while for us to get used to her quickness and for her to get used to us.

Kevin Estes

She's quicker even though she's not as big as Gabby (Wade) or Sophie (Russell).

Chris Linsley

I don't think he would be here without your quick response and quick action.