Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.

Richard P. Feynman

The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.

Richard P. Feynman

It is always good to know which ideas cannot be checked directly, but it is not necessary to remove them all. It is not true that we can pursue science completely by using only those concepts which are directly subject to experiment.

Richard P. Feynman

It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.

Mamata Banerjee

Few states, they have the international borders, state borders; in India, there is so much diversity in system. Unity in diversity is our system, so therefore, you cannot take for granted, whatever you do.

David Shore

We're not closing any doors. What we've found is everybody's so fallen in love with these characters that we have to explore it, but we cannot simply throw out the essence of the show, which is the procedural element.

Barbara Jordan

Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

Mohandas Gandhi

Let no one say that he is a follower of Gandhi. It is enough that I should be my own follower. I know what an inadequate follower I am of myself, for I cannot live up to the convictions I stand for. You are no followers but fellow students, fellow pilgrims, fellow seekers, fellow workers.

Ralph Peters

Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.

Jonathan Crisp

Let her go home, send her home, ... She will probably in all likelihood be facing this stigma for the rest of her life.

Michael Mori

Mr Hicks is the only one facing a commission,

Terry Holt

Mr. Armey and Mr. Lott are longtime friends and allies, and they will always work hard together on the issues facing Congress,

Adam Sampson

More and more people are facing homelessness and housing problems.

Richie Adubato

Now we're facing a four-game road trip. We have to steal one very shortly.

Dave Duncan

From here on out he's going to start seeing more situations like that and he's going to be facing big lefthanders. And he's going to have to be ready to start getting them out.

Jim Sensenbrenner

The principal problem facing our economy today is jobs.

Jim Sinclair

I work for lots of fire protection districts. With some exceptions, everyone is facing the same problem.

Dirk Niebel

Since September 11, 2001, we know we are facing terrorists who are trying to have their way with our constitutional democracies.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

George Washington

Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters, let it be somewhat grave.

Edward Castronova

One thing that's surprising is how serious this is. It's now my career.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.

Edsger Dijkstra

Thank goodness we don't have only serious problems, but ridiculous ones as well.

Edward Abbey

When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.

Steve MacFarlane

If all sides are serious about getting this done before the deadline, I think it can be done.

Dom DeLuise

I'm actually a thin serious person but I play fat and funny, but only for the movies.

David Nicholls

At some point you’ll have to get serious about life.

Christine Lavin

I was a very, very serious child, ... I was valedictorian of my kindergarten and eighth-grade class.

Aubrey de Vere

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

Jim Hawkins

For writing style and pace, your work stands alone.

Greg Gard

From our standpoint we have no say who we get.

James Baker

From our standpoint at least, it was a win.

Jack Nicklaus

From a tournament standpoint that will be it for me,

Eliot Spitzer

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

Michael Jansen

I wouldn't stand in the way of that.

William Shakespeare

I grow, I prosper;Now, gods, stand up for bastards!

Charles Dickens

She's the only sylph I ever saw, who could stand upon one leg, and play the tambourine on her other knee, like a sylph.

Robert Osborne

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Jerry Costello

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Scott Ellis

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Anwar Robinson

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Rick DiPietro

Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you play in this event, but at the end of the day, it's still the same game.

Phil Lesh

Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.

Denise Bottcher

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.