Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benoit Mandelbrot

Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way.

Andrew Motion

Pretty much every weekend, my wife and I have the shall-we-live-in-the-country conversation. I suppose it's something to do with getting older and feeling I want to shed some of the things I've been doing for the last 20 years and go back to my roots.

The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness

Armin van Buuren

Once a week i have to do my radio show, 'A State of Trance', usually on Wednesday night. I try to go running at least three times a week and spend at least a day without turning my laptop on and spend it with my wife and daughter.

Adam McKay

With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Lou Holtz

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

B. D. Wong

Because of the accumulation of objects, things are never quite the way I want them to be. There has always been a lack of, well, clarity.

Buzz Osborne

By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing.

Burt Bacharach

The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important.

Adam Schiff

Neither the University of Michigan nor its law school uses a quota system.

This sets us back. It's still early, but if we're not on the land by about May 10, we lose tremendous yields.

This sends a strong message to growers that the law will not tolerate requiring workers to work off the clock.

This will last a lot longer than a party night.

This will be the last powder puff race he gets. From here on out it's going to be all heavyweights.

This will be the last powder puff race he gets. From here on out, it's going to be all heavyweights.

Oscar Hijuelos

I teach at Duke, and I have students who are all of twenty who want to write memoirs, and you know it's all pretty interesting stuff, but a lot of them lack gravitas, you know.

Evan Goldberg

'The Hangover' was, like, solid. I laughed a bit, you know. Seven out of 10, maybe. But I made it 32 minutes into 'Hangover 2' before I walked out.

Elif Safak

I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities.

Emily Oster

The main concern with a very large baby is difficulty in delivery.

Emilie Autumn

I was initially signed to a German label a few years ago.

Geoffrey Canada

The tendency in lots of large organizations is to try and find a comfortable place where you think you can get measured rewards for measured work.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.

We let one slip away. We competed very well but the last two or three points we couldn't get the play.

We led for 35 minutes, but we self-destructed in the last three minutes.

Weldon's a big difference. Their turnovers were down big from the last game. The second quarter was the only time we played our style of basketball.

Chris Collins

We laughed over a new mobile phone which neither of us could make work.

We returned all of our starters but one from last year's team.

We're trying to get that land into private ownership.

Alan King

Right when I started in show... Milton Berle was my first idol. When I was a kid, I went to see Milton at Lowe's State, and I never laughed so much, and I said, 'That's who I want to be; that's what I want to be.'

Bobby Orr

The fat lady hasn't sung yet. We'll wait until we get a look at what is in the motion passed on third reading.

Mark Webber

We don't get groupies, well I don't see them, anyway. That was something that I always looked forward to and am constantly disappointed by the lack of!

Jerome K. Jerome

But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.