Famous Quotes & Sayings

Raymond Moody

Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in everyday thought and language, as well as in the literature of many cultures and many ages. It was apparently quite common even in the time of the ancient Greeks.

Stephen Manes

Saddling the latest version of your company's flagship product with a name that reminds old-timers like me of the Dodge Colt Vista or the even more ancient Oldsmobile Vista-Cruiser? At Microsoft, that's what passes for innovation. In his opening speech at a recent Microsoft analysts meeting, CEO Steve Ballmer uttered the 'i' word no less than 24 times.

Karl Marx

Constant revolutionizing of production distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat? / With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: / Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.

James Marsters

Anne Rice really doesn't explore vampires as hideous monsters of the night, they're ancient creatures with a heart. And they want to be loved and they want connections just like we do.

The whole conception of God is a conception derived from the ancient Oriental despotisms.

Paul Levinson

This goes back to ancient Greek drama. This has always been the role of fiction and entertainment to let us try these things out in a totally safe way. There's a perennial interest in these type of things. What they all have in common is bending the boundaries.

Zahi Hawass

This is a cachet (of mummies), which means that the ancient Egyptians since the end of the New Kingdom began to take the mummies out of the tombs and hide them. We don't really know what kind of people are inside but I do believe they look royal. Maybe they are kings or queens or nobles.

They've been stuck at (Palm OS Garnet) for two-plus years. It's a pretty ancient operating system that can't handle multitasking, can't handle protected memory, and doesn't have great security, all the things that Cobalt was supposed to deliver.

Steve Squyres

They provide a wonderful glimpse into what Mars was like in the earliest part of its history, ... It was a violent place. It was a place where meteorite impacts were happening frequently. It was a place where there volcanic explosions happening frequently. Hot stuff was raining from the skies. There was water. When rocks were deposited, water would flow through those rocks and change their chemistry. This is a glimpse into the ancient past of Mars.

Rudyard Kipling

A member of the most ancient profession in the world.

Richard Meier

The modern museum is much more flexible, open and transparent. There's a lightness here that is different than in ancient museums.

You often hear about ingredients being found, whether it is corn or ancient grains, but it is not too often that you hear about something as complex as noodles.

This papyrus is returning the most ancient geographic map of the classical world and helps write new pages of ancient history.

ACADEME, n. An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught.

Oscar Hammerstein

It's a very ancient saying, But a true and honest thought, That if you become a teacher, By your pupils you'll be taught

Christopher Hitchens

There is no English surname, however ancient and dignified, that cannot instantly be improved by the prefix ‘Spanker’.

George Papandreou

In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.

Garth Nix

Yet when ancient forces stir, many things are woken.

Lilian Thuram

He told me that his salute belonged to ancient Rome.

Rick Riordan

Even if these stories are 3,000 years old, there's still so much about the characters, about the dilemmas, about their understanding of the universe that still resonates. The whole idea of order and chaos, which is really central to the ancient Egyptian understanding of the world, is still very much with us.

Dramatic discoveries ... about recent gullies, near-surface permafrost and ancient surface water have given us a new Mars in the past few years.

Clive Sinclair

Deadwood lies at the northern tip of the Black Hills, where the land is ancient and rubbed smooth by time. The Black Hills are more rugged at their southern extremity, where bare granite forms pinnacles and spires.

Charles Godfrey Leland

It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride.

The stigma of St. Pete as a retirement community is just so long gone. That old stereotype is ancient history. We want that thing buried.

A very meaningful thing you can do is bring your son to have his bar mitzvah at the Western Wall. That's where our ancient relatives came from.

Eric Idle

As long as there are innocent nickels to be made from the gullible, Python-starved public, I shall be out there dressed in silly frocks and singing filthy lyrics. I'm coming your way in search of ancient dollars.

Jill Tarter

As I was leaving graduate school in 1974, I was recruited to join a fledgling SETI project at the Hat Creek Observatory in California, mainly because I knew how to program an ancient PDP8/S computer that had been donated to the project.

This vast piece of lyric theater, with its attempted fusion of music and ancient drama, has remained between the pages of musical encyclopedias. Often enough, that is where such enterprises ought to stay.

Elaine Pagels

These ancient stories in religion speak to our desire. But they move us toward hope.

The rovers have proven their value with major discoveries about ancient watery environments on Mars that might have harbored life,

Martin Filler

The role of the architect as artist is an ancient one, but it was de-emphasized with the rise of modernism, which rejected the drawing-based Beaux-Arts tradition in favor of a more technocratic approach.