Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Cooper

To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.... In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings, and as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.

Alain Robert

With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

Al Stewart

There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

Al Jourgensen

Rock n roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.

China Mieville

I differ with myself then agree, like the rock that was broken and cemented together. I change my opinion.

Cheyenne Jackson

'30 Rock' is the holy grail of comedy in my opinion.

Dave Davies

Good rock music always tends to be around.

Dave Barry

By the eighties, a lot of radio stations had started playing "Sixties" music. They called it "Classic Rock," because they knew we'd be upset if they came right out and called it what it is, namely "middle-aged-person nostalgia music.

Carl Sagan

We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.

Edwin Powell Hubble

Science is the one human activity that is totally progressive.

Bart Stupak

Ill put my progressive credentials up against anyones.

Adam Smith

It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

Adam Smith

The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.

Adam Smith

For a very small expence the public can facilitate, can encourage, and can even impose upon almost the whole body of the people, the necessity of acquiring those most essential parts of education.

Doug Stanhope

The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.

Annette Funicello

MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.

Bill Gates

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.

Henry James Sumner Maine

The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.

Ann Brashares

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Things were happening around us, but nothing was happening between us.

Orson Welles

What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other

Hank Azaria

Politics is topical - it's what's happening now, and we can either respond in the present or avoid it.

Rachel Cohn

So much is happening and yet nothing at all.

Lillian Hellman

You don't always know how to do things when they're happening.

Mitch Albom

Something is always happening somewhere.

Sri Aurobindo

Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.