Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Lebo

We're small. We have to play aggressively. We can't back off because we're too little. We don't play the brightest by any stretch of the imagination. We just make some plays. If I had any hair, it would be out. We foul way too much. All of that has to do with us being small. We really have to play that way, but we have to be smarter.

Jane Goodall

Chimps can do all sorts of things we thought that only we could do - like tool-making and abstraction and generalisation. They can learn a language - sign language - and they can use the signs. But when you think of our intellects, even the brightest chimp looks like a very small child.

Johann Lamont

When universities are forced to recruit more and more from outwith Scotland just to balance the books, it is inevitable that doors are being slammed shut on some of our brightest talent.

George Lois

I look in the mirror, and I work with the brightest person I know.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

To be fair to my dad, he is one of the brightest men I've ever met.

Wendi Deng Murdoch

I wasn't necessarily the brightest in my family. I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.

Ian Mckellen

I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.

Scott Weiss

For me, the brightest years at IronPort were without a doubt the darkest years at home.

Samuel Johnson

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Tom Kloza

We're going to see $3 a gallon gas quite commonly in the next week or so,

Toba Beta

When we do stargazing, we stare at the stars...and many other things which we have presumed commonly as stars.

John Wycliffe

It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.

George Henry Lewes

Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed.

Janet Yellen

Models used to describe and predict inflation commonly distinguish between changes in food and energy prices - which enter into total inflation - and movements in the prices of other goods and services - that is, core inflation.

Ron Pernick

Solar stocks as a group are probably up 4 to 6 times more than most of the commonly followed indices.

Lakhdar Brahimi

There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.

Jonathan Swift

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruption.

Charles Eastman

Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

True and absolute freedom is only found in the presence of God.

David Selby

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

David McCullough

The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.

Catherine Bell

It's changing a bit, but the thing in LA is everyone is either in the industry, or knows someone who is in the industry. So, they don't let on that they recognize you, that's what I've found out.

Howard Rubenstein

The Post found out about this late yesterday afternoon. They had no inkling whatsoever a scandal was brewing.

Mehmet Okur

We struggled with Jason Kidd and Richard Jefferson but we found a way to help each other and I think we did a good job tonight.

Michael Lynch

We are making a friendly offer to Reynolds, ... We were shocked when we found out that Alcoa had made its offer and we assembled ourselves as quickly as we could to put together this proposal.

David Brooks

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

Baron Davis

I am the donation to the foundation.

Alan Bennett

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

Agnes Repplier

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

Charles Lamb

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

Charles Buxton

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Charles Baudelaire

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

Baltasar Gracian

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

Diana Vreeland

Pleasure is everything.

David Brooks

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

Billy Collins

...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.

William Shakespeare

Sleep seldom visits sorrow; when it doth, it is a comforter.

Mike Melson

Once we have the person in our sights and they see us, we seldom have a struggle.

John Hume

He seldom errs / Who thinks the worst he can of womankind.

Ron Peterson

Very seldom it happens, but occasionally it does.

David Brooks

Often, I go and see films where I can see the beats coming. So, if I read something where I don't see the beats coming and it takes me somewhere unexpected, that's a great thing to build upon.

Barbra Streisand

Love comes from the most unexpected places.

Daniel Handler

Sometimes the things you’ve lost can be found again in unexpected places.

Alex Flinn

Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.

Aaron Klug

One cannot plan for the unexpected.

Charles Kennedy

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

Ambrose Bierce

PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.

Alice James

Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.

Alice Duer Miller

It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.