Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Hiaasen

We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new.

Nina Hoss

As a kid, I remember crying and then noticing myself in the mirror and being fascinated by how that looked.

Matt Lanter

I'm fascinated by beautiful scenery and what we have here on this Earth.

Kevin Spacey

Whether it's 'Veep' or 'Homeland' or 'The West Wing' - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.

Scott Aukerman

I've always been fascinated with radio and broadcasting. I did fake radio shows as a kid, where I was a DJ and stuff like that.

Sharon Shinn

I'm fascinated by the idea of disparate, difficult people learning to trust each other when they're thrust into hellish circumstances.

Thomas Heatherwick

An interest in ideas is a sign of human life. People are fascinated by what the future is going to be - and the future is going to be an accumulation of ideas.

Ronald D. Moore

When I grew up, I saw the moon landing, and I was fascinated watching them as a child, and that's what really turned me onto space and science fiction, and I started watching things like 'Lost In Space,' and that led me to 'Star Trek,' which was a major influence on my life.

Jonathan Freeman

Growing up, I would have to say I loved 'Peter Pan' because I was fascinated by Captain Hook; I was fascinated by Hans Conried, who was an actor on screen and also a theatrical and television actor.

Alan Jackson

I grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to have everything I couldn't have when I was young.

David Giuntoli

Honestly, I grew up with Disney.

David Guterson

I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave.

Luke Bracey

'Point Break' is a movie that I and all of my friends grew up loving, watching all the time, quoting, living and being.

Lucas Till

We all grew up with Chevy Chase and Bill Murray.

Nnedi Okorafor

I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonfiction books, and Roald Dahl.

Elizabeth Moon

I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up.

Edna O'Brien

Oh, love, what an unreasoning creature it grew to be.

Neve McIntosh

It's hard to get the downtrodden working-class wifey sometimes because 'You don't look like it'. Well, that's weird because I grew up on a scheme in Paisley. But everyone's got a viewpoint about what you should look like, and it's tainted by prejudices and assumptions.

Chad Harbach

Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say.

Lykke Li

Where I've been hasn't influenced my music. It's more what I listen to. You can find music everywhere, so moving hasn't really influenced my music, more me as a person.

Bill Johnson

Faith doesn't deny a problems existence. It denies it a place of influence.

Bela Kun

My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me.

John Malone

We have no extraordinary insight or influence in AOL, nor do we seek any,

Nobu Matsuhisa

I used to watch my mother cooking when I was a child; she influenced me a lot.

Benjamin Booker

I guess I would call my music blues punk. Theres a lot of influences.

Calvin Coolidge

Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.

Bonnie Raitt

I'm happy to have been a positive influence.

Bobby Lamb

We've all been at Furman for so long. Being at Furman so long has led to loyalty. The transitions are so smooth.

Doug Bleadorn

West led us and we rode the third period to victory.

Harmony Korine

When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.

Steve Martarano

There doesn't seem to be anything that really led to the attack.

Selman Waksman

The discovery of streptomycin as a product of a rather obscure group of microorganisms, the actinomycetes, led to the study of these organisms as potential producers of other chemotherapeutic substances.

Elliott Abrams

Legislation for the Caribbean basin has led to more jobs in the Dominican Republic.

Laura McElroy

led to the commotion, but they have nothing to do with the charges.

Kenny Mayne

I don't regret it at all. It's led to other things.

Mike Conley

He comes to play in big games, and today was two big games. I think he stepped up and led us to victory.

Charlie Chaplin

Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles.

Charlie Chaplin

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

Charlie Chaplin

So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!

Charlie Chaplin

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

Charlie Chaplin

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

Charlie Chaplin

Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.

Charles Dudley Warner

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

Charles de Gaulle

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles de Lint

We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.

Luc Ferrari

When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them.

Bertolt Brecht

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

Robert Johnston

We have no plans for any major shakeup at this point,

Tim Wilson

We were at a crossroads, whether we were going to have to doze it in or do some major repairs.

David Forst

Until they are in the Major Leagues, they are assets.

Lisa Bonet

The Cosby years were a major part of my life, but it is the past; I don't really concentrate on it.

Robert A. Heinlein

Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A

Benjamin Tucker

The right of the majority is absolute.

Bill Bavasi

We'll see if we can fine-tune it. Those are important spots, but we have no major trades (in the works).

Charles de Lint

The moon likes secrets," Meran said. "And secret things. She lets mysteries bleed into her shadows and leaves us to ask whether they originated from otherworlds, or from our own imaginations.

Charles Dickens

The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us; but, so far we are pursued by nothing else.

Charles Dickens

There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands.

Alan Watts

So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of energy, nerve-work, and materials in whizzing off to the moon to discover, as astronomers knew before, that it was just a dreary slag heap. This is the true, original and scientifically etymological meaning of being lunatics. Crying for the moon.

Alan Watts

If to enjoy even an enjoyable present we must have the assurance of a happy future, we are “crying for the moon.” We have no such assurance. The best predictions are still matters of probability rather than certainty, and to the best of our knowledge every one of us is going to suffer and die. If, then, we cannot live happily without an assured future, we are certainly not adapted to living in a finite world where, despite the best plans, accidents will happen, and where death comes at the end.

Alan Hovhaness

To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists. The planets have the sun, the earth, the moon.

Alan Bean

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

Alan Bean

I can remember walking on the moon.

Alan Bean

The moon is very rugged.

Mamie Gummer

L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.

Stacy Adams

He is the ironman. He's been a player for us since he stepped onto our campus.

Sendhil Mullainathan

You can get pictures into what people are sort of thinking about others. Just go onto Google and type 'Why are Indians' and then look for the autocomplete.

Terri Blackstock

I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

Alfred North Whitehead

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

John Doherty

If I pushed the poor person out onto the street and his wife or passerby called 911, there would be no charge, ... This is a punishment fine, not for services rendered.

Matt Bomer

My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.

Alisdair Gray

We are going to get products onto the shelves as soon as possible.

David Sedaris

If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you scream, or would you innately understand that he meant you no harm?

Roman Gutierrez

We still saw some of our inexperience today. That will be the case, but there were still some steps of improvement.

Bo Burnham

I saw a giraffe with a short neck That was sad Or a deer

Audrey Meadows

Fans always ask, What did the bedroom look like? All they ever saw was Alice or Ralph going in and out.

Arnold Bennett

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

Deborah Harkness

You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it.

Dennis Hopper

I wanted to be an actor. I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.

Benjamin Franklin

Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?

Belle Boyd

Politically I did not like Mr. Lincoln for in him I saw the destroyer.

Charles Caleb Colton

In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.

Charles Caleb Colton

No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.

Charles Caleb Colton

The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we had, and left us nothing to defend.

Alan Watts

We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of the physician. You know, of course, that in ancient times there was no clear distinction between priest and physician.

Howard Eisen

Wait until you see the science that is going to come back from this mission. It's going to know your socks off.

Dmitri Mendeleev

The edifice of science not only requires material, but also a plan. Without the material, the plan alone is but a castle in the air-a mere possibility; whilst the material without a plan is but useless matter.

Dmitri Mendeleev

When the elements are arranged in vertical columns according to increasing atomic weight, so that the horizontal lines contain analogous elements again according to increasing atomic weight, an arrangement results from which several general conclusions may be drawn.

Dmitri Mendeleev

If all the elements are arranged in the order of their atomic weights, a periodic repetition of properties is obtained. This is expressed by the law of periodicity.

Dave Barry

What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.

Luc Ferrari

You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

Dave Orlandini

We've turned the corner. We still have a long way to go, but at least we can see the road. Before we couldn't even see the road.

Monty Python

Well she turned me into a newt!""A newt?""I got better...

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Tubby Smith

We really got rattled. They really had another gear; they turned it up.

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Jason Garey

I think it turned out pretty well for me.

Madeline Albright

He has to be turned over. We want to see him in The Hague,

Dudley Etheridge

He kind of turned it around for us.

Jan Jones

We're just watching the legislation. We're not lobbying it. We're not negotiating.

John Huber

We're just going to be watching and monitoring.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I was kind of amused, and shocked. At first I was watching it with my children. Then I said 'Children, OUT!

Stacy Keibler

I think there were a lot of women out there watching and voting, and there were a lot of men out there watching, but not voting.

Willie Parker

Man, watching Jerome all day long, he just is what he is.

Alan Trammel

He's a keeper. We'll be watching him for years.

Betha Aris

I am still watching you as well Mr. Whitey!

James Farrior

Yeah, he's watching his weight all right. Watching it expand.

Rhett Miller

We'd probably be watching 'Dora the Explorer' or something.