Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nathan Myhrvold

Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.

Nathan Myhrvold

The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up.

Nathan Myhrvold

Bill, we left megalomania behind a long time ago. Now we are gigalomaniacs.

Nathan Myhrvold

I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat is transferred through food.

Mithun Chakraborty

My fan following is intact. They only like to see me in movies, which I am still doing for them. I do not need to do any long interviews or chat shows.

Miriam Makeba

I'm not a politician; I am a singer. Long ago, they said, 'That one, she sings politics.' I don't sing politics; I merely sing the truth.

Psy

It's tiring to be asked the same questions all day long: 'What is Gangnam style?' and 'Teach me how to dance.'

Publilius Syrus

No pleasure lasts long unless there is variety in it.

Publilius Syrus

That should be considered long which can be decided but once.

Poppy Montgomery

I have spent too long training myself to speak with an American accent, it's ingrained. I spend 16 hours a day on set speaking with an American accent. Now, when I try to speak with an Aussie accent, I just sound like a caricature of myself.

Portia de Rossi

I knew I wasn't attractive, and I was very happy about that. I didn't want to be attractive. I didn't want to attract. As long as no one wanted to be let in, I didn't have to shut anyone out.

Pierre Omidyar

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

Nelson Mandela

I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.

Nelson Mandela

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

Neil Young

Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.

Neil Young

Took out Skinny Minnie, Long Tall Sally, and Short Fat Fanny, but I'm kinda fonda Wanda.

Rachel Roy

Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and long-lasting. It's just finding what you're good at and being honest with yourself.

Rabih Alameddine

I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.

Nia Long

As long as the acting is good, I can appreciate it.

Niall Horan

I'd date a fan as long as she didn't scream in my face.

Nevil Shute

If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.

Nhat Hanh

Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!"

Noam Chomsky

A lot of the letters that are coming in - a lot of them are queries or comments - are one sentence long.These are from Twitter. And if you look at the nature of those one sentence letters, most of the time it's something that came to somebody's mind - somebody walking down the street had a thought and sent it out. If they thought about it for two minutes they would not have sent it.

Noam Chomsky

As long as nuclear weapons exist, the chances of survival of the human species are quite slight

Noam Chomsky

In the primary debates for the 2016 election, every single Republican candidate was a climate change denier, with one exception, John Kasich - the "rational moderate" - who said it may be happening but we shouldn't do anything about it. For a long time, the media have downplayed the issue.

Noam Chomsky

If current tendencies persist, the outcome will be disastrous before too long. Large parts of the world will become barely habitable affecting hundreds of millions of people, along with other disasters that we can barely contemplate.

Noam Chomsky

Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn't reduce to physics. So it's just some way of calculating the result of experiments. The Bohr atom was treated that way.

Noam Chomsky

As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege

Mike Nichols

Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can trying to stay on the road... If you're still here when you come out of the spin, it's a relief. But you've got to have the terror if you're going to do anything worthwhile.

Mike Myers

I grew up in Toronto and as long as I can remember, as long as there was cable, even those old cable boxes that were wired to the TV, there have been Bollywood movies on Toronto TV.

Mike Pence

I long for the day that "Roe v. Wade" is sent to the ash heap of history.

Mike Pence

However long I serve in public life, I'll stand on that basic liberty of the right to keep and bear arms.

John Ashcroft

The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's banks because bank robberies have been a priority