Famous Quotes & Sayings

Orville Wright

Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!

Orville Wright

We estimated that we could make one of four cylinders with 4 inch bore and 4 inch stroke, weighing not over two hundred pounds, including all accessories.

Oscar Arias

Latin America has not achieved the development that it deserves... I'm not optimistic for all of Latin America, not only for Central America.

Os Guinness

I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'

Os Guinness

Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.

Keith Sweat

I'm trying to forget how much that cost, but I just had to have them.

Kate Chopin

When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills.

Kate Chopin

A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.

I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, "What are you?

I authored the Universal National Service Act because I believe that everyone in America should contribute to the greater good of America.

Living in America means enjoying freedoms that people in many other countries cannot.

Chen Ning Yang

I think in the sciences there is still the general belief that America is still tops. For America to lose that, I think, would be very bad, not just speaking as a scientist myself. I think it would be very bad for the morale of the whole country.

Chen Ning Yang

I think America is a new country. It is a young culture. The spirit of the opening of the West is still with the Americans. It's a very practical and individual-based kind of philosophy that had worked in America for a long time, had been very successful. And the spirit is very much there.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.

We don't see ourselves as just a place where we come to worship but as a beacon and a bearer of the culture and a bearer of what makes us a people. But I like to say that this is not necessarily unique to us. It is really what America is all about.

Could we not argue that America is about freedom, whether we live it out or not, but it really is about freedom, equality and the pursuit of happiness. And that's what church is all about.

Chris Wallace

I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.

Chingy

Man, I love coming home. St. Louis is actually hard to capture.

Charlie Haas

They called to tell me that I was going to be returning to RAW. I left immediately to run home and tell Jackie. She said, I have some news for you-I'm expecting.

Wallace Stevens

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.

Walter Cronkite

There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.

Walter Cronkite

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Wendell Willkie

We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free.

Wayne Coyne

When we started there was this element of these experiments we were doing where we weren't really sure how the music would play out because the music was all on different players.

Wayne Coyne

Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself and even though it is out of synch you mind can still understand what it is meant to be doing.

Wayne Coyne

It was endlessly entertaining, watching people beat each other up. All the little kids in the neighborhood would come and watch... and then we'd beat them up as well.

Wayne Coyne

We never thought it would be something everyone would listen to. We never thought people who listen to Britney Spears would run to listen to it. It was intended for people on the fanatical side of production and hi-fi.