Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Major

Liberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly.

John Lancaster Spalding

The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.

Jodie Foster

I've worked with Neil Jordan, who I really adore. We did The Brave One [2007] together.

Katherine Center

There is no tenderness without bravery.

Katherine Center

Be brave with your life, so others will be brave with theirs.

Katherine Dunn

There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.

Katherine Anne Porter

All life worth living is difficult, nobody promised us happiness; it is not a commodity you have earned, or shall ever earn. It is a by-product of brave living, and it never comes in the form we expect, or at the season we hoped for, or as the result of our planning for it ...

Leona Lewis

It takes bravery to end a relationship.

Laurell K. Hamilton

If I was truly as brave as I thought I was, I'd have let him go. But I loved him, and I wasn't that brave.

Laurell K. Hamilton

If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.

Jules Feiffer

There's some brain damage, but it may be that very brain damage that allows me to do the work I do.

K. D. Lang

Even through the darkest phase Be it thick or thin Always someone marches brave Here beneath my skin

Julius Charles Hare

By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now.

Judy Woodruff

The primary implication is that we're going to combine our intelligence with computers. We're going to make ourselves smarter. By the 2030s, they will literally go inside our bodies and inside our brains.

Paul Daniels

I am 5ft 6in and weigh about 11 stone - about a stone overweight, but that's because of my brain.

John Schuerholz

It's hurtful to know that Tommy Glavine won't be in a Braves uniform anymore.

John Searle

You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer.

Mark Spitz

I swam my brains out.

Marilu Henner

Healthful whole foods improve our brain function as well.

P. G. Wodehouse

The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.

Ovid

Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.]

Ovid

God himself favors the brave.

Paul Neilan

Cowardice, when done correctly, can be its own kind of bravery.

Marisa Tomei

I find that protein wakes up my brain and gets me ready for the rest of my day.

Pamela Stephenson

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

Julia Phillips

Ah, the relationships we get into just to get out of the ones we are not brave enough to say are over.

Julia Quinn

He didn’t know where the thought had come from, or what strange corner of his brain had come to that conclusion, because he was quite certain it would be nearly impossible to live with her, but somehow he knew that it wouldn’t be at all difficult to love her.

Julia Quinn

The look Anthony shot at his sister was so comically malevolent Simon nearly laughed. He managed to restrain himself, but mostly just because he was fairly certain that any show of humor would cause Anthony's fist to lose its battle with his brain, with Simon's face emerging as the conflict's primary casualty.

Leonard Shlain

Images are so prevalent that we get most of our information from them. We receive multiple layers of meaning within a very short compact picture, and that is what the right brain does best. Indeed, as our culture becomes more image-based, we're balancing our hemispheres. Through this new re-wiring, we're becoming a much gentler and kinder society.

Nelly Furtado

Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.

Neil Tennant

I've got the brains, you've got the looks, let's make lots of money

Nia Vardalos

Sometimes if something scares me, I lean right into it . I’m not a brave person— I’m more of a fearless idiot.

Niccolo Machiavelli

There are three kinds of brains. The one understands things unassisted, the other understands things when shown by others, the third understands neither alone nor with the explanations of others.