Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Maher

The true axis of evil in America is the brilliance of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people.

Jamie Hyneman

One of the things I'm likely to start building in my shop is a vehicle wherein each wheel has basically a flight-simulator base as its suspension. It's known as a hexapod; it's basically a tripod but each leg is two pistons. So you have six axes of freedom on it. This will be something that can not only do what lowriders do, but shorten or extend its wheelbase and jump forwards, backwards, or from one side to the other. In an off-road situation it could be rolling at speed toward a ravine and then leap across it.

Archimedes

The centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis.

Gore Vidal

Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to 'serious' drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.

Phil Anselmo

I love to play guitar. I've been writing my own songs on the axe since I was nine years old. I suck at leads.

Rand Paul

Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.

Naveen Andrews

No one knows where the axe will fall next.

Jared Diamond

Eurasia's main axis is east/west, whereas the main axis of the Americas is north/south. Eurasia's east/west axis meant that species domesticated in one part of Eurasia could easily spread thousands of miles at the same latitude, encountering the same day-length and climate to which they were already adapted.

Dave Sim

God grinds the axes he intends to use.

Bill Bryant

We have no moisture, we have no grass, the hay is burnt up. What do you do? I'm numb.

Jane Wiedlin

I did the co-writing thing all through the '90s and I got one hit out of it - a Keith Urban song called 'But For The Grace Of God' - but then I got burnt out.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

Different people's houses smell like different weird things. God forbid someone should come and nail down what my house smells like. It'd probably be a litter box... sweaty socks... and burnt bacon. That probably is what it smells like.

Shea Hembrey

My grandfather was a healer, and he used matches often. Once, he burnt a wart off my finger and then rubbed the ash deep into it, and it never did come back. When he worked at a factory, people would line up next to his truck to be healed. He died before he could teach us any of his secrets.

Phil Cox

What I saw was village after village which has been burnt down,

Brian O'Driscoll

I get burnt in the sun, so there's no point me getting pecs for when I take my shirt off in the summer.

Bahman Ghobadi

In my view, the adults are the burnt generation of Iraq for whom nothing can be done. But for the children, we can worry now, we can talk about them, we can plan for them, we can get our protest heard by others.

Granth Sahib

You are the strength of the weak. He is not known through burnt offerings and ritual chanting

David Briggs

People aren't going to chase those types of rallies anymore. Investors have been burnt too often and we're going to have a choppy market going forward,

Charles Spurgeon

You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a #‎ fact .

Glenn Parker

We want to thank Robert for his valuable contribution to the Company's development and growth since its inception, ... His entrepreneurial vision has been a leading factor in our success to date.

David Graeber

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

Carlos Salinas de Gortari

Globalization is a fact of economic life

C. P. Scott

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Well, I'm celebrating the fact that Republicans are doing better with women.

Luke Bracey

I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny.

Gene Smith

The positives are closure. The fact is we participated with an ineligible player. That's the truth. You can't sugar-coat that.

Robert Fraser

We are proud of the fact that we surpassed last year's donation.

Charles Baudelaire

Etre un homme utile m'a paru toujours quelque chose de bien hideux. To be useful has always seemed to me quite hideous.

Kimberly Kim

We had nothing to hide so we wanted to co-operate. We thought it was the right thing to do.

Dottie Kastigar

Lots of barns out here to hide in. And these are people who don't necessarily want to be found. They still have a lot of pride.

Thomas Kinkade

She was my high school sweetheart. I hide an 'N' in every painting.

Deborah Moggach

Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living from all of this.

Tom Petty

When you shoot well, you can hide a lot of deficiencies. I like the (3-pointer) as well as anyone, but we wanted to be a little more patient on offense in the second half.

Colin Angle

We will not have humanoid androids. It's interesting: when you start trying to make robots look more human, you end up making them look more grotesque. It takes very little to go from super-attractive robot to hideous robot.

Rig Veda

One should never lie to hide one's mistake.

Amy Bloom

I don't think writers really choose their subjects. I think the subjects, the topics, the themes, choose us, and then we make the most of what we have. For Trollope, society; for Roth, Jews. For me, apparently, love. Why hide it?

Jack London

. . . there was about him a suggestion of lurking ferocity, as though the Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.

Ellen Bogard

We're going to replace them all just to make sure.

Robert Reich

We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth.

Randy Huth

We used to have a singer but he didn't work out and we never replaced him. We all do vocals on the record, and live, we, me and Joel, split it up.

Roy Green

We won't replace him, we'll just watch him as a (Missouri State) Bear.

Alan Alda

No one can replace a unique person like Peter.

Lois Lowry

As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium.

Kevin Phillips

Obviously, we are not going to be able to replace these vans with one bus. It's going to be a two-to-one ratio.

Kathleen Patterson

What we take out today takes 30 to 100 years to replace back into the aquifer. You can use 10,000 to 20,000 gallons (of water) on even a small lot. Micro-irrigation uses about a 10th of that.

Thomas Schaaf

We can't replace Miro, but we have to put that aside.

Lauren Oliver

I think 'Voldemort' is definitely the scariest villain.

John Krasinski

I think we all get into situations where we don't know how to proceed, and those are really the scariest moments that we have, but that's also what makes us 'grow up' and learn a lot about each other.

Sean Jackson

The scariest part was going through Mobile. There was a lot of rain, dust, but after that it was a smooth ride.

Christian Slater

The thing is, everything you read about me is true. That's the scariest thing...

Dan Wasserman

This is one of the scariest phrases to find. Sometimes it can be serious, other times, it's not.

David Duchovny

Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.

Dido Armstrong

It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else.

Charlotte Bronte

I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you. And if you were to leave I'm afraid that cord of communion would snap. And I have a notion that I'd take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, you'd forget me.

Charles M. Schwab

You can never really get away - - you can only take yourself somewhere else.

Beth Orton

Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an effort.

Bodhidharma

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha

Brian Jacques

I will not stand here to be insulted by you, hedgepig," Mangiz fumed. "Then stand somewhere else and I'll insult you there, featherbag!!

Blaise Pascal

Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me, and I am competent only to admire them.

Barbara Kingsolver

It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.

Luke Bracey

I'm really into the idea of telling stories. Everyone needs stories. Everyone needs to escape every once in a while.

Sandra Lee

When you're young, you think you can do anything, and that was really a gift. That's why I can never understand someone telling me 'no' today. 'No' just isn't an option.

Baltasar Gracian

It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it.

Marco Tempest

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but I'm more interested in telling a story.

Ted Morgan

The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.

Sabrina Carpenter

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

Robert Barnes

What I am telling you is that Matta had a way of making you feel comfortable and that's probably why he had nine wives because he made them feel comfortable and then uncomfortable later.

Ira Glass

Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.

Charles Caleb Colton

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Alanis Morissette

I think everyone's hungry for the truth

Alan Watts

Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.

Alan Watts

Duality is always secretly unity.

Alan Arkin

Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.

Al Pacino

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.