Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hanna Rosin

Every new medium has, within a short time of its introduction, been condemned as a threat to young people. Pulp novels would destroy their morals, TV would wreck their eyesight, video games would make them violent.

Frank Zappa

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

Frank Zappa

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

Frank Zappa

Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement.

Frank Zappa

Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned--I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture, or necrodestination.

Frank Zappa

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

Fred Perry

Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.

Fred Hoyle

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

Fred Rogers

Sometimes people are good, and they do just what they should. But the very same people who are good sometimes are the very same people who are bad sometimes. It's funny but it's true. Its the same isn't it, for me and . . .

Fred Rogers

In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.

Frank Herbert

Love is not a mood, but a dynamic way of being.

Frank Herbert

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Frank Herbert

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

Frank Herbert

Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.

Frank Herbert

We can say that Maud'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.

Frank Herbert

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Frank Herbert

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

George Gobel

College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.

George Halas

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

Haim Ginott

I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.

Haim Ginott

Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.

Greg Norman

I always wanted to be the best I could be at whatever I did. I didn't want to be the number one golfer in the world. I just wanted to be as good as I could be.

Jim Butcher

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it. (Harry Dresden)

Jessica Biel

There is so much pressure to look a certain way in this town. But it's nice to have a little meat on you, and I hope I inspire women to appreciate their muscular calves.

Jesse Ventura

Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.

H. P. Lovecraft

Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.

H. P. Lovecraft

If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!

H. G. Wells

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

George Herbert

Show me a liar, and I'll show you a thief.

George Herbert

Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

Jean de la Bruyere

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.

Jean de la Bruyere

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

Jean de la Bruyere

The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.