Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Titchmarsh

I think I was always realistic - well, not the Percy thing, that was ridiculous - but I never dreamed of being a racing car driver or anything.

Alan Titchmarsh

People think cruises are for old folk, but they are amazing, as you get to see so many places, and you're never stuck as you're docked in a different port every day.

Alan Turing

It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.

Alan Sugar

In America, everybody thinks they're an entrepreneur. That's the problem. It's not a title that anybody should call oneself.

Alan Sugar

Among some of the youngsters, I think reality TV has installed that culture into them and inspired a few of them into wanting to be 'TV celebrities.

Alan Shepard

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

Alan Shepard

And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right.

Alan Shearer

Defeat is not worth thinking about.

Alan K. Simpson

So let us take our fair share of the true refugees and act responsible as a government in providing for their necessary expenses. Let us stop skewing the whole process by taking some folks who are not truly refugees in order simply to meet our foreign policy needs or domestic policy demands. There has to be a better way to meet those needs and demands than we are doing now. I think it is embarrassing to all of us who truly know the mission of the Refugee Act.

Alan King

If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.

Alan Kay

I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own “brain voices”. The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.

Alan Kay

Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.

Charlotte Bronte

Let your performance do the thinking.

Charlotte Bronte

I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you

Charlotte Bronte

To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.

Charlotte Bronte

You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me down by even the feeblest claim: I can tell you this - if the whole human race, ourselves excepted, were swept away, and we two stood alone on the earth, I would leave you in the old world, and betake myself to new.

Charlotte Bronte

As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.

Charlotte Bronte

I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.' - Jane Eyre

Charlie Haden

I think it’s very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic of the moment that you’re in … because when you improvise you’re in right now. You’re not in yesterday or tomorrow—you’re right in the moment. Being in that moment really gives you a perspective of life that you never get at any other time as far as learning about your ego… You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.

Charlie Cox

When you think about justifiable anger in one's personal life, we look at those scenarios in everyday life and through our story with a superhero, we heighten them.

Charlie Chaplin

Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice

Charlie Chaplin

My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing.

Charlie Chaplin

Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.

Charles Wang

I don’t think success is a place or a definition, I think it’s a direction.

Charles Tillman

I think everyone needs competition in life, whether it be myself, you, the President.

Charles Tillman

I like to compete. I think competition brings out the best in anybody.

Charles Taze Russell

Brought up a Presbyterian, indoctrinated from the Catechism, and being naturally of an inquiring mind, I fell a ready prey to the logic of infidelity, as soon as I began to think for myself. But that which at first threatened to be the utter shipwreck of faith in God and the Bible was, under God's providence, over-ruled for good, and merely wrecked my confidence in human creed and systems of Bible misinterpretations.

Charles W. Pickering

America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards. We want to be a better nation and a better people, with better standards.

Charles de Gaulle

Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator ?

Charles de Lint

I don't think the world works on merit.

Charles de Lint

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

Charles de Lint

The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.

Charles de Lint

I don't think the world is the way we like to think it is. I don't think it's one solid world, but many, thousands upon thousands of them--as many as there are people--because each person perceives the world in his or her own way; each lives in his or her own world. Sometimes they connect, for a moment, or more rarely, for a lifetime, but mostly we are alone, each living in our own world, suffering our small deaths.