Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Bryant H. McGill

Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason!

Andrew Lang

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

Anais Nin

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I am doing this I feel I am not living.

Ludwig von Mises

One has to recognize that science is not metaphysics, and certainly not mysticism; it can never bring us the illumination and the satisfaction experienced by one enraptured in ecstasy. Science is sobriety and clarity of conception, not intoxicated vision.

Bill Bryson

We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.

Orson Scott Card

Madness, and then illumination.

David Ogilvy

We all have a tendency to use research as a drunkard uses a lamppost - for support, but not for illumination

David Ogilvy

I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.

Charlie Chaplin

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.

Charlie Chaplin

Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh.

Charles Dickens

Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait.

Charles Spurgeon

My soul, never laugh at sin's fooleries, lest thou come to smile at sin itself. It is thine enemy, and thy Lord's enemy.

Alan Bradley

I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.

Alan Alda

Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah. Don't ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don't doubt yourself.

Chita Rivera

I love to laugh, I love the joy of life, and I love sharing it.

Don Cheadle

It's much easier to cry or be angry, but to really laugh and genuinely be buoyant and laugh. That's hard if you don't really feel that way.

David Alan Basche

I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I dont take myself too seriously.

Steve Wingfield

We want to take it to a community and give everyone a chance to come on board.

Martin Gerber

We knew they were a desperate team. This is their last chance to make it. I thought we were confident going into the game. We lost a little step in the first period. Things just didn't go our way.

Rosemary Palmer

We knew. They didn't even get a chance to knock.

Jon Nebel

We knew they'd come out hard in the third. They created a chance early and put it away.

Ronald Steele

We know we've got to win a couple more to have a chance to make the NCAA tournament.

Abbie Letz

We know we messed up there and didn't play well at all. We made a lot of mistakes and didn't focus. This is our chance to fix that.

Maurice Garner

We know we have to step it up now. One loss and the chance for the city championship goes out the window.

Mike McGann

We know we have to play a perfect game to have a chance to win. We've got to prepare and give it all we've got.

Raul Gonzalez

We know we haven't got much chance of the league but what we have depends on us winning in Barcelona. We need to have the conviction that we can do it and in the dressing room the feeling is there.