Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marilyn vos Savant

Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.

Marilyn vos Savant

Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.

E. O. Wilson

I'm going to have to work longer. Longer and harder.

Kirk Ferentz

I learned a long time ago that at the end of the day, the only stat that counts is points, The other ones are significant, but I'd much rather have the right score on the board. At the end of the day, that's what we're worried about.

Kirsten Dunst

Charlotte Rampling is someone I've wanted to work with for a very long time. I've always looked up to her as an actress and it's a reason why I feel brave to do a film like Melancholia. So, to me she's the ultimate.

Kirsten Dunst

I've learned to do a movie and then not be in that place for a long time.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before.

Kim Basinger

I'm very thankful that I've had such longevity and variety.

Kevin Drum

I've long believed that having multiple official languages makes it very hard to sustain a united polity.

Karl Landsteiner

Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms.

Karl Liebknecht

Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.

Karl Marx

The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Karl Marx

So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.

Kali Hawk

I had also wanted to work with Aaron McGruder for a long time and there were a few other people on the project that I really wanted to work with,so it seems like a miracle of a project ['Black Jesus'] was handed to me.

Kamala Harris

I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.

Julia Child

I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago.

Julia Child

I wouldn't keep him around long if I didn't feed him well.

Judi Dench

I don't really want to retire. I intend to go on working as long as I can because I still have a huge amount of energy.

Jim DeMint

We must now make clear to Lebanon that it will not benefit from U.S. assistance and support as long as it harbors this brutal terrorist and murder.

Jessica Raine

I always knew that the only thing I wanted to do was act, but it took me a long time to say it out loud to anyone, let alone myself. I am surprised by how dogged I have been in wanting to make a living as a respected actress.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

As long as the mind is seeking to fill itself, it will always be empty. When the mind is no longer concerned with filling its own emptiness, then only does that emptiness cease to be.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

As long as you are held within a pattern you must create disorder in the world.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We need tremendous energy to bring about a psychological change in ourselves as human beings, because we have lived far too long in a world of make-belief, in a world of brutality, violence, despair, anxiety. To live humanly, sanely, one has to change.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Living is not this tawdry, mediocre, disciplined thing which we call our existence. Living is something entirely different; it is abundantly rich, timelessly changing, and as long as we don't understand that eternal movement, our lives are bound to have very little meaning.

Jeremy Paxman

I have neither the learning nor the experience to know whether the doomsayers are right about the human causes of climate change. But I am willing to acknowledge that people who know a lot more than I do may be right when they claim that it is the consequence of our own behaviour. I assume that this is why the BBC?s coverage of the issue abandoned the pretence of impartiality long ago.

Jeremy Piven

I've been a fan of hip-hop for a really long time, and I still am.

Jeremy Piven

I wrote a script and I've been whispering in director's ears for a really long time and I'd love to direct.

Jeremy Renner

They don't allow you to go any further unless you can do this bomb suit training, because it puts such a mental strain on your spirit. It dumbs you down about 25 to 30 IQ points. You start to hallucinate in the heat inside the suit after 20-30 minutes. So you try not to stay in it too dang long. So the preparation for that - it's either you have it, or you do not.

Jenna Bush

Luckily I've had a lot of great friends that I've had for a long time.

Gilda Radner

I would rather be funny than gorgeous, absolutely. Because it's too hard to be gorgeous, you know. I could make a stab at gorgeous as long as I had something funny to say to get out of it.

Gillian Anderson

Having been Scully for such a long time, I have to prove myself in other roles.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration."