Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dimitar Sasselov

In science, it is rare that a transformational change occurs during our lifetimes.

Dean Koontz

On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from.

Dean Koontz

Life packed a clever one-two punch: cruelty and absurdity.

Dean Koontz

I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity.

Dean Koontz

We are buried when we're born. The world is a place of graves occupied and graves potential. Life is what happens while we wait for our appointment with the mortician.

Daniel Everett

I've learned so much from the Pirahas over the years. But this is perhaps my favorite lesson. Sure, life is hard and there is plenty of danger. And it might make us lose some sleep from time to time. But enjoy it. Life goes on.

Daniel Everett

As a scientist, objectivity is one of my most deeply held values. If we could just try harder, I once thought, surely we could each see the world as others see it and learn to respect one another's views more readily. But I learned from the Pirahas, our expectations, our culture, and our experiences can render even perceptions of the environment nearly incommensurable cross-culturally.

Daniel H. Pink

Were born to be players, not pawns.

Daniel Goleman

At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift-a practical map for the perennial quest for a flourishing life.

Daniel Goleman

Evolutionary theory holds that our ability to sense when we should be suspicious has been every bit as essential for human survival as our capacity for trust and cooperation.

Daniel Handler

There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.

Daniel Handler

If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.

Daniel Handler

People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.

Daniel Handler

Thinking about something is like picking up a stone when taking a walk, either while skipping rocks on the beach, for example, or looking for a way to shatter the glass doors of a museum. When you think about something, it adds a bit of weight to your walk, and as you think about more and more things you are liable to feel heavier and heavier, until you are so burdened you cannot take any further steps, and can only sit and stare at the gentle movements of the ocean waves or security guards, thinking too hard bout too many things to do anything else.

Damon Runyon

I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.

Dan Aykroyd

Personally, I liked working for the university. They gave us money and facilities. We didn't have to produce anything. You've never been out of college. You don't know what it's like out there! I've worked in the private sector ... they expect results!

Dan Ariely

It is very difficult to make really big, important, life-changing decisions because we are all susceptible to a formidable array of decision biases. There are more of them than we realize, and they come to visit us more often than we like to admit.

Craig Kilborn

I lived in a studio apartment until my mid-30s. I don't have an extravagant lifestyle.

Craig Ferguson

People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.

Coco Chanel

You live but once; you might as well be amusing.

Coco Chanel

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

Clark Gable

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great - and they know I know it.

Clarence Day

It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star: but even so - and all the more - what marvelous creatures we are! What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is - blind or not - a good world to live in, a promising universe. . . . We once thought we lived on God's footstool, it may be a throne.

Clarence Day

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time.

Elizabeth Strout

And it was too late. No one wants to believe something is too late, but it is always becoming too late, and then it is.

Elizabeth Strout

You couldn't make yourself stop feeling a certain way, no matter what the other person did. You had to just wait. Eventually the feeling went away because others came along. Or sometimes it didn't go away but got squeezed into something tiny, and hung like a piece of tinsel in the back of your mind.

Elizabeth Scott

Three life lessons: 1.No one will see you. 2.No one will say anything. 3.No one will save you.

Elizabeth Taylor

Success is a great deodorant.

Elizabeth Taylor

The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

My life's actually been quite dull; it's not all that glamorous.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.

Elizabeth Kenny

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.