Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Castaneda

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

Agnes Varda

I'm myself - knowing I'm doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers. We got along very well without trying to make me look like I'm what I'm not.

Charles de Gaulle

Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.

Charles Dickens

Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.

Charles Dickens

We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.

Brian Cox

At every stage of understanding the universe better, the benefits to civilisation have been immeasurable. None of those big leaps were made with us knowing what was going to happen.

Brian Eno

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.

David Allen

At at any point in time, knowing what has to get done, and when, creates a terrain for maneuvering.

Brandon Miller

There is definitely a buzz around the program, and it's not only about the recruiting class we've got coming in, it's the season we just had.

David Denby

The action comes at us through a buzz of nattering remarks.

Calvin Ayre

One of the things that drives me is the excitement that I could fail. What better buzz can you get?

Game McGimsey

We are all on a buzz right now.

Neil Meron

Miramax wanted the buzz to spread, but slowly, so people would be clamoring for it, ... Chicago.

Olaf Kolzig

We knew they would come hard with a lot on the line. With us playing last night, we came out a little sluggish and took too many penalties. Obviously, they were buzzing but we survived it, and got better and better. In the third period, we had a heck of a period but I gift-wrapped their second goal, then we tied it up.

Eugene Kennedy

Pope Benedict XVI's resignation is big on buzz but is not the stunning surprise claimed by many pundits. It is rather a further example of the German theology professor's style that informed his years as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, his term as pope, and the formation of his legacy to the church.

Jeffrey Simpson

I am very excited. I had a big old smile on my face and was very impressed. I think there is a real big buzz about the program now. We are catching people's eye.

John Perry

But after a few weeks, the buzzing in your head subsides.

Audre Lorde

What I leave behind has a life of its own.

George H. W. Bush

Whoever says Americas best days are behind it are looking the wrong direction.

Patrick Ness

I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.

Nelson Mandela

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

Ernest Holmes

Every thought has a consequence. And every experience has a causative thought behind it.

Jack Canfield

What is the why behind everything you do?

Martin McDonagh

It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind

Seth Grahame-Smith

Elizabeth sheathed her sword, knelt behind him, and strangled him to death with his own large bowel.

Stevie Smith

This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.