Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Chadwick

Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.

Alan Cooper

There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense.

Chinua Achebe

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands.

David Deutsch

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.

David R. Ellis

Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common.

Catherine the Great

The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished.

John Segrich

Unstructured information is common to just about every industry. This story has legs to support investors for quite a long time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.

Carol Jordan

There are common lessons for us to learn from our own UK study and from the study just released by the AAUW. First, these forms of victimization happen to far too many students: female and male, from all walks of life, and from all races and ethnicities. The second discomforting similarity is that most students who have these experiences do not tell.

Demosthenes

The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.

Dave Heineman

Diesel fuel is too important to our farmers at harvest time and to the truckers delivering commerce across Nebraska to allow a bureaucratic hurdle to slow the delivery of fuel.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.

Rob Clarke

We didn't harvest it, we didn't process it. We would never have knowingly distributed questionable material.

John McGinnis

We could harvest day after day after day.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

Dr. Colosimo

You're looking at two little poke holes and a small incision to harvest the graft.

Gordon B. Hinckley

There must be labor, incessant and constant, if there is to be a harvest.

Bryan Ferry

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

Ai Weiwei

Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.

Bob Newhart

I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.

Ed Begley, Jr.

You cannot be quiet about things that you know.

Dee Dee Ramone

Because I'm quiet, people think I'm really cold, or rude, or snobby. But I'm literally scared to talk to them.

Diego Della Valle

When it is possible, I choose to have a quiet life.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that she had not lived enough to know)

Agnetha Faltskog

There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.

Charlie Munger

It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.

Ben Casnocha

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.

Abbie Hoffman

Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?

Dave Bristow

I don't think it's a random thing and they got lucky. I think they knew.

Aaron Paul

I get random meetings, like, 'Ron Howard would like to sit down with you.' 'Really?' If 'Breaking Bad' hadn't happened, Ron Howard probably wouldn't want to sit down with me. Because he would have no idea who I was.

Stephen Jay Gould

[C]ontingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness.

Harland Williams

I don't go on tour tours - I just go randomly to cities to do shows if I have an opening in my schedule.

J. G. Ballard

Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.

Rick DiPietro

It's random testing, right, ... They see me and every time it's, 'OK Rick, you're up.'

Nicholas D. Kristof

Random violence is incredibly infectious

Lefty Grove

You've got a little round ball and a little round bat and anything can happen.

Samantha Fox

It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.

Catriona Matthew

I am a little surprised, but delighted, to be back in it and with two rounds to go anything is still possible,

Diana Wynne Jones

Things are going round and round in my head--or maybe my head is going round and round in things.

Amy Winehouse

I never went round to loads of managers saying 'this is what I have, this is my product and I'm going to be famous so you'd better sign me up.' They came to me.

Pat Toomey

Laffey was in Washington making the rounds and I spoke with him then,

Peter Mandelson

If we scale back in Hong Kong, we should not scale back for the round as a whole. It is too important.

Steven Gerrard

This season will be his season. His all round game's a lot better and there's a lot more to come from him.

Cliff Thompson

Overall, I'm happy. During the first round of the state tournament, you just want to get a win and get the jitters out.

Lisa Stevens

Then other mornings, he sleeps in. So it's very variable.