Famous Quotes & Sayings

Galileo Galilei

But what exceeds all wonders, I have discovered four new planets and observed their proper and particular motions, different among themselves and from the motions of all the other stars; and these new planets move about another very large star [Jupiter] like Venus and Mercury, and perchance the other known planets, move about the Sun. As soon as this tract, which I shall send to all the philosophers and mathematicians as an announcement, is finished, I shall send a copy to the Most Serene Grand Duke, together with an excellent spyglass, so that he can verify all these truths.

Freeman Dyson

Have felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it's there in your hands, to release this energy that fuels the stars, to let it do your bidding. To perform these miracles, to lift a million tons of rock into the sky. It is something that gives people an illusion of illimitable power and it is, in some ways, responsible for all our troubles - this, what you might call technical arrogance, that overcomes people when they see what they can do with their minds.

Erich Maria Remarque

The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal... It made everything spacious and colourful, the dark stream of life seemed pulsing in it; there were no burdens any more, no limits; there existed only glory and melody and love, so that one simply could not realize that, at the same time as this music was, outside there ruled poverty and torment and despair.

Scottie Reynolds

Everything from McDonald's to all the all star games, I give thanks to my coaches, my teammates, the fans, everything.

Even if the refineries are OK, they could be starved of their imports.

Everything's just starting to come together for me.

Joe Gibbs

Something like that starts with me. . . . It was all of us together.

Davey Johnson

Once you start winning, ... you don't want to stop. You don't want to lose.

Elena Dementieva

I usually start to play well when I'm in trouble.

Dusty Baker

I've always been told, 'You start the year hurt, it makes for a long year.

Sometimes you need this. It's tough, but now we can stop talking about 13-0 and start talking about being this 0-1 Tiger team and what we're going to do about it.

DeShawn Stevenson

Sometimes you've got to switch up the starting lineup to get a spark, just to get a win.

Tech blitzes so much, the only way you can get them to back down is start to gash them,

Terrible start to the third quarter. We didn't play. No intensity. Weren't executing. Nothing. It was disgusting.

It was an electrifying start but I didn't have any follow-up.

Celso Amorim

The step taken (by the EU) was not sufficient to start negotiation in other sectors,

Jose Maria

The start of the work is (Saturday), but they are practically working now,

That part of the lineup is starting to come through.

That's what they know. When we start winning, it won't be that way.

This was just one game. We're not going to start pressing just because of one loss.

Dwight Howard

This team is trying to go in a dramatically different direction. We're starting over young.

Gary Sheffield

This team is resilient. We don't quit. Now we're starting to come into our own.

Burton Rascoe

What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

Colin Montgomerie

I used to say I'm here to win. Now I say I'd like to win. But I have to start winning.

Darren Sproles

I use it as motivation, ... I'll always use it as motivation, even if I start getting respect. It's something I'll always use.

Dave Matthews

Things are starting to turn into a windfall for us. We don't take these firsts for granted.

Things are starting to change. We're getting a lot of big-time recruits here.

Things look bleak. It's unclear when things are going to start to look better.

The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.

Jeff Davis

They always do that, ... because they think we're going to start some kind of trouble with him.

This year is the year in which we start anew, from the beginning.

This year has been like a nightmare. It's been real tough, every start hurts.

I started out bad, ... You know what you have to shoot. This was disappointing, to start out that way and end that way.