Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Banks

Wiseguy for its time was good. It was really good. And it holds up still. But a lot of the restraints have been taken off now.

Jonathan Ames

I wondered where the person was who had taken my place, who wanted to know what news people had been told. I'm always looking for the person who replaces me, who thinks the things I do, who fills in for me when I'm not there. I know there is someone younger than me doing what I did and someone older doing what I will do, and someone my age being just like me.

Jonah Goldberg

[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition.

Joyce Carol Oates

There is an hour when you realize: here is what you have been given. More than this, you won't receive. And what this is, what your life has come to, will be taken from you. In time.

Justin Timberlake

We've been in that situation where you're just so happy to be doing what you love to do that you get taken advantage of.

Lee Iacocca

Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late.

Larry Bird

It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.

Thomas Aquinas

Evil denotes the lack of good. Not every absence of good is an evil, for absence may be taken either in a purely negative or in aprivative sense. Mere negation does not display the character of evil, otherwise nonexistents would be evil and moreover, a thing would be evil for not possessing the goodness of something else, which would mean that man is bad for not having the strength of a lion or the speed of a wild goat. But what is evil is privation; in this sense blindness means the privation of sight.

Thom Yorke

I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.

Thom Yorke

Every move you make has already been done, and taken the piss out of.

Terry Tempest Williams

I appreciate all of the unexpected places, internal and external, that my writing has taken me.

Terry Tempest Williams

I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.

Terry Tempest Williams

To slow down is to be taken into the soul of things.

Terry Pratchett

Oh dear me, the Booker people don't like me. I don't care. I have been given an award for being taken not seriously, and I am very, very pleased about that.

Terry Pratchett

When much is taken, something is returned.

Tennessee Williams

Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!

Terence McKenna

Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.

Terence McKenna

If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's an absence of consciousness that is making this historical transition so excruciating.

Terence McKenna

And I don't mean this metaphorically. I want to be taken seriously as proposing that the ennui of modernity is the consequence of a disruptive symbiotic relationship between ourselves and vegetable nature.

Tom Petty

We don't really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we've been taken for granted.

Simone de Beauvoir

The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.

Simone Weil

Capitalism has brought about the emancipation of collective humanity with respect to nature. But this collective humanity has itself taken on with respect to the individual the oppressive function formerly exercised by nature.

Simone Weil

the instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable.

Simon Sinek

The responsibility of leadership is not taken, it is given. Only when others choose to follow us can we truly lead.

Simon Sinek

No matter how many or how few people you have reporting to you, you must remember that as you climb higher in the ranks, your words will be taken as commands even if you're just thinking out loud.

Simon Sinek

Followers want to be taken care of. Leaders want to take care of others. We can all be leaders.

Simon Pegg

The thought of filming in London was a big draw because I could stay in my house. I read it, and I was really taken with it because it felt at once very unapologetic for what it was, which is a romantic comedy. But at the same time, a little spiky and a little truthful.

Swami Vivekananda

No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of God, and of human destiny.

Swami Vivekananda

Let me die fighting. Two years of physical suffering have taken from me twenty years of life. But the soul changes not, does it? It is there, the same madcap - Atman - mad upon one idea, intent and intense.

Tim Heidecker

I feel like when you do Twitter, sometimes you just have an idea and you fire it off and don't really think too hard about the consequences of that. I think my reputation there is as a comedian and not someone to be taken seriously. But I like the idea of getting out false information and just muddying up the story and making it as confusing and, you know, schizophrenic as possible.

Stephen Gardiner

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

Stephen Fry

No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it's always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It's a wonderful journey to take.

Ruud Gullit

If I'd wanted to be an individual, I'd have taken up tennis.