Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elle Varner

Tomorrow, the busiest day of the week. I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating.

Ray Manzarek

I played music practically my entire life. But the first time I ever really played music was with John and Robby and Jim That's where it happened. it was an epiphany, a moment of profound clarity

Ray Kurzweil

By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that's singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter.

I don't like programming. It's tedious.

Raquel Welch

Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I'm proud to be Latina.

Raoul Vaneigem

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

Thomas Jefferson

The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction, which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption, and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens.

Thomas Jefferson

Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.

Robert Hass

Poetry, when it takes sides, when it proposes solutions, isn't any smarter than anybody else.

Robert Henri

If you do not act on a suggestion at first, you grow dull to its message.

Rick Rubin

It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day.

Rick Rubin

For me the Beatles are proof of the existence of God.

Rick Pitino

Make incremental progress, change comes not by the yard, but by the inch.

Rick Santorum

I have a problem with homosexual acts.

Rick Santorum

I have nothing, absolutely nothing against anyone who's homosexual. If that's their orientation, then I accept that. And I have no problem with someone who has other orientations.

Tana French

Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands manufactured to precise specifications; we are so used to things transmuting into whatever we would like them to be that it comes as a profound outrage to encounter death, stubbornly unspinnable, only and immutably itself.

Tad Williams

After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff of chaos and impose a beginning, middle, and end on it, like the simplest and most profound of folktales, to reflect the shapes of our own tiny lives? And if the physicists are right, that the physical world changes as it is observed, and we are its only known observers, then might we not be bending the entire chaotic universe, the eternal, ever-active Now, to fit that familiar form?

Tablo

All the promises we made in the beginning, did we forget because we were busy? Or are we already too busy forgetting?

Sylvia Plath

The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault.

Sylvia Plath

And what is happy? It is a going always on. There is something better to be done than I have done, and spurred by the fair delusion of progress, I will seek to progress, to whip myself on, to more and more- to learning. Always.

Swami Vivekananda

All progression is in the relative world.

Swami Vivekananda

According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.

Ron Wyden

I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise.

Stephen King

If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross out. I'm not proud.

Stanley Tucci

And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.

Stanley Kubrick

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem

Soren Kierkegaard

Death is not earnest in the same way the eternal is. To the earnestness of death belongs precisely that remarkable capacity for awakening, that resonance of a profound mockery which, detached from the thought of the eternal, is an empty and often brash jest, but together with the thought of the eternal is just what it should be, utterly different from the insipid solemness which least of all captures and holds a thought with tension like that of death.

Soren Kierkegaard

A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.

Stephenie Meyer

Edward: “After a few decades, everyone you know will be dead. Problem solved.

Stephenie Meyer

You're my life now and I will do anything to protect you.

Stephen Chbosky

Craig said the problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone

Stephen Colbert

I can't prove it, but I can say it.

Stephen Colbert

Anyone can read the news to you. I promise to feel the news... at you.