Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Newell

We had a very tough match on Saturday but they are all tough matches.

When the impossibility has been eliminated, whatever remains, no matter how improbable... is possible.

Chris Crutcher

You have to be mad in the language you're mad in.

Chris Crutcher

If someone's different from you and it scares you or makes you mad, that's God telling you to take a closer look. If you're scared or mad, that's about you, not about the person who scares you or angers you.

Dana Stabenow

Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.

Douglas Fairbanks

The man that's out to do something has to keep in high gear all the time.

Doug Harvey

I always told my young umpires, 'Don't get mad. Whatever you do, don't show it. But no matter how long it takes, get even.'

Thomas Couture

There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture.

As we were all growing up, there used to be a very big mantra in India which was called 'export or perish.' There was a long period when we used to focus on import substitution.

Tom Stoppard

The truth of the matter is that I used to be much more - as it were - shy. Now I don't care!

Timothy Noah

The chief purpose of a union is to maximize the income of its members.

Timothy Noah

Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.

Thomas Fuller

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Charles Spurgeon

Like Jonah, you may lose your gourd, but you cannot lose your God.

Charles Spurgeon

You must be DIVORCED from your SIN, or you cannot be MARRIED to CHRIST.

Charles Petzold

I started out with machine code and assembly language.

Charles Petzold

Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick

Charles Olson

All that matters is that the thing be the thing of the thing.

Charles R. Swindoll

An anniversary says, "Think of the dreams you have weathered together. They are intimate accomplishments."

Charles R. Swindoll

Strength comes from choosing to fully trust, pray, and praise. Our circumstances may not change, but in the process we change.

We won. That's all that matters to me.

We won't be able to provide our students with that service until someone else steps up to take responsibility, ... Maybe by November.

Art Buchwald

I earned my stripes as a Marine, and the Corps gets full credit for straightening me out. At 17, I was young, I was unhappy and most of all, I was undisciplined. The Marine Corps was the right service in the right place at the right time.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Marijuana... That's not a drug, that's a plant.

Ayn Rand

Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.

Ayn Rand

I am only concerned with politics so I may see the day when I don't have to be concerned with politics.

Ayn Rand

Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind.

Ayn Rand

A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.

Ayn Rand

The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny.

Bertrand Russell

Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.

Bertrand Russell

For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.

Bertrand Russell

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.

Bertrand Russell

Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.