Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacob Bronowski

Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals, so that unlike them, he is not a figure in the landscape, he is the shaper of the landscape.

William Shakespeare

This is his uncle's teaching, this Worcester, Malevolent to you In all aspects, Which makes him prune himself and bristle up The crest of youth against your dignity.

William Shakespeare

There is none of my uncle's marks upon you; he taught me how to know a man in love; in which cage of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner.

Stephen Hawking

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

Stephen Hawking

M-theory is the unified theory Einstein was hoping to find.

Noam Chomsky

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It's not like Egypt, where you're going to get murdered by the security forces.

Mitt Romney

Pre-existing conditions for those previously insured must not lead to someone being unable to get insurance.

Brian Leonard

Right now it is only a scare. We won't know until after the fact.

Marco Rubio

Politically, foreign policy never matters until it matters, and then it matters a lot.

David Blunkett

My sense is that there is a new understanding, yes.

My understanding is that Pedro, very frankly, is doubtful.

Crystal Chappell

My understanding is that Olivia had no idea what was going on.

My understanding is that he didn't have a weapon when he was arrested,

Jessica Sanchez

On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads.

On ratings, fields, any benchmark, the Turnbull has undeniable claims.

Pontius Pilate

Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews?

Mary Wilson

We have always understood that visibility is viability.

Mike Lewis

We have to wait until the water temperature is about 60 degrees.

Ray Liotta

I didn't start acting until I was in college, which was in the 70's.

Mark Zuckerberg

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Matthew Bourne

Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible.

Deb Caletti

Unconditional love is like a contry of two with no laws and no government. Which is all fine if everyone is peaceful and law abiding. In the wrong hands, though, you got looting and crime sprees, and let me tell you, the people who demand unconditional love are usually the ones who will rob and pillage and then blame you because you left your door unlocked.

Henry Selick

Underneath this tired, middle-aged exterior, I'm an 11 year old kid.

Pat Cash

I see it, but I don't understand it,

Alice Walker

I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.

Alice James

Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.

Alice Hoffman

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

Alice Hoffman

Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.

Alice Duer Miller

It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

life itself is always pulling you away from the understanding of life.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The best marriages, like the best lives, were both happy and unhappy. There was even a kind of necessary tension, a certain tautness between the partners that gave the marriage strength, like the tautness of a full sail. You went forward on it.

Anne Lamott

My understanding is that you get to choose which of your thoughts to go with.

Anne Lamott

I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.