Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aldous Huxley

We have learnt that nothing is simple and rational except what we ourselves have invented; that God thinks in terms neither of Euclid nor of Riemann; that science has "explained" nothing; that the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Zubin Mehta

I feel growing up in Mumbai is an advantage, as we grow up speaking so many languages that when we go abroad, it becomes easier to learn new languages.

Valerie Bertinelli

Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.

Valerie Azlynn

Working out should be a key part of your life but not your whole life. When it is all a man could talk about, it becomes too much.

Vanessa Kerry

I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country.

Charlie Batch

Right now, I'm the guy preparing to play this week. I'll go out and prepare that way and get the timing down with the receivers and make sure I get the verbiage called with the plays. Once you get the game plan down, everything just becomes natural at that point.

Thomas Hardy

Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.

Jeff Byrd

Perception becomes the better part of reality, coupled with three factors,

Only by attaining knowledge can one become free from ignorance and eliminate his sins. Such a man dwells independently as his mind becomes free from fear.

One of the reasons we built a six-month time frame into restricting the imagery is so that all the issues related to this could be vetted. This (the online offerings) was one of the issues we knew about, but we felt there would be appeals. ... Do you take everything off now and then perhaps reinstate it, or do you wait and make the change when the policy becomes effective? We felt the best decision was to wait until there was resolution.

One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.

One of the most upbeat people I've ever coached -- and it becomes contagious.

Meeting with worshippers, one's face becomes radiant and bright, chanting the Name of the Lord.

Meeting the True Guru, one becomes immaculately pure, and the Lord s Name comes to dwell within the mind.

Meeting them, all filth is washed off, bathing in the Pool of Truth, one becomes truthful, with intuitive ease.

Alexander Hamilton

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it... the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

My limbs fail and my mouth becomes dry. My body quivers and my hairs stand on end.

One of the things that we're hoping for is that they have some success out of the chute. Whenever a young player has some success in a certain phase of the game it kind of becomes contagious. Then they play with a little more confidence.

One of the things about having worked at certain places is that it becomes very hard after you stop working at them to continue a relationship, to continue even reading them. So I must confess that I don't read 'New York' magazine anymore.

One of our goals is to unify the online experience for people so that, instead of living in all these little silos, it brings together all their experiences in a seamless manner, for communication and information in particular. If you want to unify that experience and give people great access, 'any time/anywhere' becomes critical. So, mobile becomes really important to us.

Simone Beauvoir

One is not born a woman, one becomes one.

Simone Beauvoir

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.

One of the assumptions is that it becomes increasingly difficult to get things done in an election year, especially things where tough decisions have to be made.

Pablo Picasso

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.

Noah Hawley

Obviously, when you do something with drama and comedy in it - and by that, I mean a scene that has drama and comedy in it - you know the minute you introduce music, you're either scoring the drama or you're scoring the comedy, and therefore the scene becomes either dramatic or comedic.

No one is going to go short on gold in times like this. As gold is not linked to a government or a geopolitical body, it becomes a natural investment in times of tension.

No one becomes a good doctor before he fills a churchyard

One, who wishes well of others and works for their welfare, quite naturally becomes the ruler of the masses.

One who serves the Immaculate Lord becomes immaculate.

One who merges his own self into Him understands, and so becomes pure.

John Desmond Bernal

As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers.

Larry Cohen

All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.

Karen Hughes

Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.