Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cullen Hightower

Faith is building on what you know is here so that you can reach what you know is there.

Cullen Hightower

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.

Cullen Hightower

Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.

Conrad Hall

You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.

Clint Eastwood

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

Clint Eastwood

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

Clarence Darrow

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

Clarence Darrow

Different strokes for different folks.

Clarence Darrow

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

Clarence Darrow

If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

Danny Kaye

Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.

Daniel Defoe

I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.

Daniel Dennett

What you can imagine depends on what you know.

Dan Buettner

Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing.

Dan Brown

Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand.

Dan Brown

The Book of Reveal-ation in the Bible predicts an unveiling of great truth and unimaginable wisdom. The Apocalypse is not the end of the world, but rather it is the end of the world as we know it. The prophesy of the Apocalypse is just one of the Bible's beautiful messages that has been distorted.

Dan Brown

This prophecy of a coming enlightenment is echoed in virtually every faith and philosophical tradition on Earth. Hindus call it the Krita Age, astrologers call it the Age of Aquarius, the Jews describe the coming of the Messiah, theosophists call it the New Age, cosmologists call it Harmonic Convergence and predict the actual date of December 21, 2012.

David Filo

The Net as a whole is not that reliable, so our blips in service don't cause major problems. However, we are certainly working on improving our own reliability as well as those sites that we depend on.

David Frost

Concentration of effort and the habit of working with a definite chief aim are two of the essential factors in success, which are always found together. One leads to the other.

David Frost

Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.

David Frost

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

David Foster Wallace

No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

David Foster Wallace

It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.

David Foster Wallace

Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.

David Foster Wallace

Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.

David Foster Wallace

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

David Foster Wallace

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.

David Foster Wallace

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

David Coleman

We estimate, and this isn't an estimation, that Greta Waitz is 80 seconds behind

David Coleman

And there's no "I love you" message because Steve Ovett has married the girl

David Coleman

Some names to look forward to - perhaps in the future

David Coleman

In a moment, we hope to see the pole vault over the satellite.

David Coleman

And the line up for the final of the women's 400 metres hurdles includes three Russians, two East Germans, a Pole, a Swede and a Frenchman