Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Morrell

As long as thriller authors teach us about our world, they'll be relevant.

Carl Sagan

So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system, or at least our galaxy, have been disappointed, progressively disappointed. The universe is not responsive to our ambitious expectations.

Alan Watts

Western religions are more concerned with behavior, doctrine, and belief than with any transformation of the way in which we are aware of ourselves and our world.

Brian Greene

...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.

Jane Goodall

I feel a desperation to make people see what we are doing to the environment, what a mess we are making of our world. At this point, the more people I reach, the more I accomplish. ... I miss Gombe and my wonderful years in the forest But if I were to go back to that, I wouldn't feel I was doing what I should be doing.

Carl Jung

The upheaval of our world and the upheaval of our consciousness are one and the same.

Bob Ross

We have no limits to our world. We're only limited by our imagination.

Bob Saget

Oil is sixty dollars a barrel. There are terrorists everywhere. We have a catastrophe in our world every ten minutes. I don't know how anybody's getting through anything. Right now, people just need to be entertained.

Arianna Huffington

The more fearless we are in our personal lives, the more of that spirit we'll bring to changing our world.

Carl Barks

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

C. S. Lewis

But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Sandra Cisneros

One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.

Brent Spiner

Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.

Bret Easton Ellis

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

Diane Setterfield

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.

Diane Setterfield

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

Diane Setterfield

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

Djuna Barnes

Life, the permission to know death.

Diane von Furstenberg

Now is the time to become a myth.

David Sinclair

We are proud to be teaming up with Mr. Glenn and the Glenn Foundation. Like us, Paul is dedicated to finding the molecular answers to the aging process so we can understand the mechanisms of normal aging and develop interventions to delay its onset and decline, thereby extending the healthful years of human life.

Connie Stevens

We are a generation of women that has listened to the much louder voices of parents, teachers, employers, husbands and children while our own voices were small or muffled or totally ignored. Aging Out Loud gives us permission to not only listen to that voice but heed its warnings, laugh at its jokes and follow its directions, without guilt and without looking back.

Richard Jackson

We're in much better shape to confront the aging challenge than the countries of continental Europe or Japan. But good shape is a relative statement.

Andrew Kohut

This probably has to do with the aging of the population and more people confronting these situations. The poll found that people who have participated in decisions about end-of-life or had loved ones with illnesses in the last five years are much more likely to have thought about end-of-life treatments or to have living wills.

Betty Friedan

Aging will create the music of the coming century.

Elizabeth Janeway

We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.

Jim Byrnes

Until now, Prism users have been faced with a difficult choice continue using an aging ERP system with limited support and no plans for future development, or invest considerable time and resources to converting to a new solution.