Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Kyd

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.

George Colman

On their own merits modest men are dumb.

George Colman

And what 's impossible can't be, And never, never comes to pass.

William Shakespeare

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

Aphra Behn

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

John Ciardi

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

Dodie Smith

I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life.

Dodie Smith

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

Phaedrus

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

Nnedi Okorafor

I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke.

Ron Taffel

Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.

M. Wolfe

For whatever reason, $199 tends to be a magical price point.

Grace Gummer

There's something magical about theater. You can live the character every single day to the point where you become that person.

Brentson Buckner

With a performance like that, 2006 might be a magical year.

Robert Schulz

We always want to have the right rating on a company. There's nothing magical about the timing.

Agnus Berenato

We've had a magical season. I don't think we're ready for it to end.

Patrick Ness

The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.

Howard Davidowitz

The advertisers are gone. It's a question of getting them back. But getting every one of them back is priced into the stock. The stock is priced as if everything she does is magical and perfect.

Charles Caleb Colton

In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.

Charles Caleb Colton

No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.

Charles Caleb Colton

The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we had, and left us nothing to defend.

Alan Watts

We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of the physician. You know, of course, that in ancient times there was no clear distinction between priest and physician.

Dave Barry

What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.

Dave Barry

Scientists tell us that the fastest animal in the world, with a speed of 120 mph, is a cow dropped out of a helicopter.

Dave Barry

Here's a simple experiment that you might want to try if there is absolutely nothing else going on in your life. All you need is a cork, a bar magnet, and a pail of water. Simply attach your magnet to your cork, then drop it into the water, and voilà (literally, "you have a compass")-you have a compass. How does it work? Simple. Notice that, no matter which way you turn the bucket, the cork always floats on top of the water (unless the magnet is too heavy). Using this scientific principle, early hardy mariners were able to tell at a glance whether they were sinking!

David Sarnoff

I ... began my career as a wireless amateur. After 43 years in radio, I do not mind confessing that I am still an amateur. Despite many great achievements in the science of radio and electronics, what we know today is far less than what we have still to learn.

David Sarnoff

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.