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.

Agnes Martin

I paint with my back to the world

Agnes Repplier

There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.

Agnes Repplier

There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania...

Aaron Tveit

In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want to do it all

Charlotte Bronte

Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.

Charlotte Bronte

You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.

Charlie Haden

You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.

Charlie Daniels

I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world. I love what I do.

Charlie Chaplin

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

Tom Shaheen

We want to see first how the lottery is received. Based on all of the polls, we're making the assumption that it's going to be very highly received. But a poll is a poll, and until we actually see what happens when tickets go on sale, we'll have a better idea by then.

Henry Crumpton

We have no intelligence or evidence that indicates that he (Bin Laden) is dead or incapacitated, so our working assumption is that he is still alive.

Norm Stamper

We have no indication that he has left this immediate area, so we make the assumption that he is still afoot or ... holed up somewhere in this area,

Tom Daschle

We have no choice but to revisit the question on other bills. Especially given the relationship between guns and schools these days, I think it's a natural assumption that one could make that there could be some amendments which will be offered,

Rich Mogull

We've since updated this assumption and now predict that by the second quarter of 2006, 85 percent of large enterprises will have initiated encryption projects.

Michael Chertoff

We've seen them attack in London, for example; we've seen them attack in Spain; we've seen them attack elsewhere, so I think we have to operate on the assumption that they do have some capability and they certainly have the intent.

Ariel Levy

There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched by the feminist movement, that means everything we do is magically imbued with its agenda, but it doesn't work that way.

John Fiske

The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.

John Fiske

The persecuting spirit has its origin . . . in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.