Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shane Smith

Most of the time, when the mainstream media reports on something, it never tells the whole story.

Most people have enough money. It's that they don't know how to manage what they have.

Hesketh Pearson

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

Edward Said

It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as if ancient societies and myriad peoples can be shaken up like so many peanuts in a jar.

Edward Norton

Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies.

Edward Norton

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

We have high-end range refrigerators which are mainly meant for the urban areas.

We have had some tough matches this year, but (the sectional tournament) is what it's all about. That's what everyone is pointing toward and trying to step up a notch with that in mind.

Brigitte Nielsen

All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.

Brian May

There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.

Brandon Cruz

I feel that it's the music, not anything else, that matters.

Brandon Sanderson

I am what the universe made me to be, my dear.

Archimedes

I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee that once it is understood and established, it will be used to discover other theorems which have not yet occurred to me, by other mathematicians, now living or yet unborn.

Archimedes

Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible.

Antisthenes

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

Antisthenes

I'd rather be mad than feel pleasure.

Anthony Weiner

Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.

Ben Quayle

Spending when the math's not there and the numbers aren't there and if they look in the social security trust fund, it's filled with IOUs because the government's been pilfering it for years on end. We have to do something. We have to start having this discussion.

Ben Okri

Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories

Ben Okri

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin...

Babe Paley

The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.

We're here to throw down the gauntlet of a $250 million match to the Legislature.

We're going up there and taking it one match at a time. Right now, we're just celebrating our first sectional.

This puts Orlando on the map as a medical destination.

Bashar al-Assad

I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.

Baruch Spinoza

Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.

Barbara Mertz

Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

Barbara Mertz

His masculinity was only too apparent

Augustine Birrell

It is the Mass the matters.

Augustine Birrell

It is the Mass that matters.

Auguste Comte

C'este donc par l'étude des mathématiques, et seulement par elle, que l'on peut se faire une idée juste et approfondie de ce que c'est qu'une science.

Augusten Burroughs

I knew that he was as reliable as a mathematical formula.