Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second is: don't over-estimate your own merits. The third is: don't expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself. And the fourth is: don't imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any special desire to persecute you.

Jamie Bell

I've got lots of weird illustrations of me from Japanese fans.

Barbara Kruger

All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype,

Aldous Huxley

In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words.

Daniel Clowes

You need to be, like, turning down high-paying illustration work because you want to work on your comic. That's when you know you're doing something good.

Ada Lovelace

The confusion, the difficulties, the contradictions which, in consequence of a want of accurate distinctions in this particular, have up to even a recent period encumbered mathematics in all those branches involving the consideration of negative and impossible quantities, will at once occur to the reader who is at all versed in this science, and would alone suffice to justify dwelling somewhat on the point, in connexion with any subject so peculiarly fitted to give forcible illustration of it as the Analytical Engine.

Andre Benjamin

Now, my oral illustration be like clitoral stimulation to the female gender Ain't nothin' better Let me know when it's wet enough to enter

Stephen Jay Gould

If we choose a weak and foolish speculation as a primary textbook illustration (falsely assuming that the tale possesses a weight of history and a sanction of evidence), then we are in for trouble - as critics properly nail the particular weakness, and then assume that the whole theory must be in danger if supporters choose such a fatuous case as a primary illustration.

Kurt Vonnegut

With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen. Yes, and Frances Halsband's illustrations are a haunting countermelody.

Charles Studd

Nail the colours to the mast! That is the right thing to do, and, therefore, that is what we must do, and do it now. What colours? The colours of Christ, the work He has given us to do- the evangelization of all the unevangelized.

Caroline Corr

Actually, I wear the nail polish to hide how grubby my nails are.

Demetri Martin

I am what I eat. And I am this especially when I bite my nails.

Benoit Mandelbrot

There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable

Rafael Chaves

I thought he was the pitcher he can be during those innings. He was nails after the beginning.

Bob Dylan

Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount, But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts.

Judith Curry

This new study really nails down that link.

Lee Melchionni

For him to make those shots at the end, it's a little like daggers, nails in the coffin.

Frank Reynolds

Lets nail it down, lets get it right.

Adam Hamilton

I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.

Gloria Steinem

Each others' lives are our best textbooks.

Thabo Mbeki

I am sure it is in the medical textbooks, there are many things that cause immune deficiency and you will find therefore in the South African HIV and AIDS programme, that it will say that part of what we have got to do is to make sure that our health infrastructure, our health system is able to deal adequately with all of the illnesses that are a consequence of AIDS.

Jerry Falwell

Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.

Gideon Gono

I found myself doing extraordinary things that arent in the textbooks. Then the IMF asked the U.S. to please print money. The whole world is now practicing what they have been saying I should not. I decided that God had been on my side and had come to vindicate me.

Neal Shusterman

What do you do with a textbook case when no one's written the textbook?

L. Ron Hubbard

I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.

Joshua Lederberg

By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.