Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic energy, but if it looks like a petrol engine, smells like a petrol engine and performs exactly as well as a petrol engine, the sensible working hypothesis is that it is a petrol engine.

Richard Widmark

Anne Baxter was a very good actress, Donna Reid was great. You couldn't name an actress I wasn't crazy about.

Richelle Mead

But each time you use spirit, you're more likely to go crazy.” “Already crazy about you, Sage.

Richelle Mead

Sage?" Adrian lightly touched my arm, and I jumped at the feel of his fingertips against my skin. "You okay?" "I don't know," I said softly. "I just thought of something crazy." "Welcome to my world.

Richelle Mead

You aren't going to go crazy," I said firmly. "You're stronger than you think. The next time you feel that way, find something to focus on, to remind you of who are." "Like what? Got some magic object in mind?" "Doesn't have to be magic," I said. I racked my brain. "Here." I unfastened the golden cross necklace. "This has always been good for me. Maybe it'll help you." I set it in his hand, but he caught hold of mine before I could pull back

Richelle Mead

I didn't think my day could get any worse until my best friend told me she might be going crazy. Again.

Richelle Mead

Didn’t understand love? Was she crazy? If she only knew what I’d sacrificed for Dimitri, what I’d done to be where I was now . . . all for love. She was the one who couldn’t understand. Love wasn’t a fling in a back room at a party. It was something you lived and died for.

Richelle Mead

By the way, my name's Rose Hathaway. I'm seventeen years old, training to protect and kill vampires, in love with a completely unsuitable guy, and have a best friend whose weird magic could drive her crazy. Hey, no one said high school was easy.

Richelle Mead

Call me crazy for asking this, but, um, are Lissa and I going with you?" "No" "No?" "No.

Richelle Mead

He stepped back and threw his arms out. "I'm always crazy around you Rose. Here, I'm going to write an impromptu poem for you." He tipped his head back and shouted to the sky: "Rose is in red But never in blue Sharp as a thorn Fights like one too.

Richelle Mead

If someone had asked who could stage the best intervention with a crazy woman who had formerly been an undead monster, Sydney Sage would have been my last guess.

Richelle Mead

You and I have been through too much together. We're too close, too connected. I wasn't that crazy on spirit when I said you're my flame in the dark. We chase away the shadows around each other. Our backgrounds don't matter. What we have is bigger than that. I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too.

Richelle Mead

Adrian suddenly glanced up at me. Our gazes locked, and I felt like he could read my mind. How often did he think about that kiss? And if he really was crazy about me, did he imagine more than just kissing? Did he fantasize about me? What kinds of things did he think about? His lips on my neck? His hand on my leg? And was that leg bare . . . ?

Richelle Mead

Well, I'm supposed to be crazy, right? And there isn't much I wouldn't do for you. The stupider the better." - Adrian Ivashkov

Richelle Mead

Sitting beside Abe was Adrian Ivashkov--my more-or-less boyfriend. Adrian was a royal Moroi--and another spirit user like Lissa. He'd been crazy about me (and often just crazy) ever since we first met

Richelle Mead

ARE YOU CRAZY?" I ASKED. He gave me the same wordless look he always did when I asked that question.

Richelle Mead

People who are crazy rarely question whether they're crazy.

Richard Bach

Silly ideas, worth the admission price in smiles, but they're true. Is high-energy physics interesting because it's true or because it's crazy?

Ryan Hall

It's a long, hard road and it's going to have its bumps; there are going to be times when you fall and times when you don't feel like going on anymore, times when you're just crazy tired but it takes focusing on that one step you're taking. That's what I'm trying to do with the marathon; I don't think about the miles that are coming down the road, I don't think about the mile I'm on right now, I don't think about the miles I've already covered. I think about what I'm doing right now, just being lost in the moment.

Ryan McGinley

You have to be able to observe life as if you were a camera all the time, constantly looking at light and the way that things are placed and the way people hold themselves. You need the ability to see something in someone or something that no one else really sees and be able to bring that to light. Basically, you have to be an obsessive crazy person.

Ryan Lochte

The fact that people actually want my autograph is crazy.

Ryan Lochte

I think that is why I do so many different things with the hair, the grills, the crazy shoes.It's just my personality coming out there.

Russell Hornsby

I mean, of course, I love sci-fi and stuff like that, but I'm not, like, a comic book crazy guy.

Russell Crowe

A lot of the things that other people from outside the business would see as crazy or strange are just a natural part of the working process. Preparation is key, and detail and collaboration are the rule, but no matter how many hours you spend preparing, there's always something.

Rube Goldberg

It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.

Thomas Roberts

It is not plausible for Patrick Kennedy to do something to get the FBI to change the State Department investigation, this is crazy.

Robert Knepper

Sometimes with success comes some crazy that goes along with it.

Robert Harris

I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics - especially if you're there for a long time.

Robert Anton Wilson

Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.

Rob Lowe

I really make a point of never worrying, or trying not to worry, about the way I'm perceived. You'll go crazy otherwise.

Rob Lowe

When I was young and crazy, I was young and crazy. It can be hard enough just to BE in your teens and 20s. Then add fame, money, access, and every single person telling you that you're the greatest person who ever was, and it can be a recipe for disaster. Some people literally don't survive it.

Rebecca De Mornay

I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for several years. Which is trying to find a way to not let the insecurity of my profession get the better of me and make me crazy. I'm trying to find a way to maintain my own personal balance in the midst of everything.

Rebecca Romijn

Hour-long TV is no joke. It tests you as a human being. It makes you a stronger person, but it's really crazy.