Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernest Rutherford

I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist.

Cassandra Clare

The way he looked at you. I got it then. He loved you, and it was killing him. He won't get over you, Clary, he can't.

Cassandra Clare

Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.

Cassandra Clare

I keep in touch with my fans by keeping a blog online and I try to answer questions every day. I also have a twitter and a facebook. I think that social networking gives authors a unique insight in the minds of their fans and for me that is very valuable.

Evo Morales

Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.

Evan Parker

Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records!

Evan Parker

So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop them and have the fullest range of possibilities of the saxophone be known.

Evangeline Lilly

I wasn't actually going to see the original film [Lord of the Ring], because I didn't think it was possible that a film could represent the books appropriately. So I was protesting, and I wasn't going to see them. And then my family all took a jaunt together, the entire family, to see the movies, and were like, "What, you're just going to stay home?" So I saw the movies and was thoroughly impressed that Peter Jackson managed to make my vision of the book come to life, as well as my sister's and my father's, and my aunt's and my uncle's, everyone's.

Jeremy Sisto

There's a lot of actors out there or people who want to be actors. It's unique to find somebody that, you know, needs to be an actor.

Jeremy Rifkin

It is not uncommon to suppose that the free exchange of property in markets and capitalism are one and the same. They are not. While capitalism operates through the free market, free markets don't require capitalism.

Jenny Agutter

It's such a strange combination that I'd be unhappy to make anything like that without Landis directing.

Jenny Lawson

There's so much shame involved in not being like everyone else. But I learned that the things that made me unique were good. Dealing with problems can be awful. But in the end I got positive results. I don't think I would have been a writer if I didn't have anxiety.

Glenn Beck

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Frank Herbert

The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences

George Gobel

My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago.

George H. W. Bush

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

Harold Bloom

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

Harold Bloom

Shakespeare is universal.

Haile Selassie

Unity should be the cornerstone of relations

Gunter Grass

I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defenders of the Polish postal service and, after it capitulated, was shot by the Germans under the provisions of martial law. Suddenly he was no longer a member of the family, and we were no longer allowed to play with his children.

Jim Butcher

Tavi looked wildly around the courtyard, and when his gaze flicked toward them, his face lit witha ferocious smile. "Uncle Bernard! Uncle Bernard!" he shouted, pointing at Doroga. "He followed me home! Can we keep him?

H. P. Lovecraft

Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied, thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities.

Jean Anouilh

Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas. Nothing is true except that which is unsaid.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The universe is nothing without the things that live in it, and everything that lives, eats.

Jay Weatherill

You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.

Jayne Mansfield

A lot of happiness can be brought to the mentally distraught by a little understanding.

Carly Fiorina

The state is facing a unique and extraordinary set of challenges and opportunities that demand the involvement of all of us to address them. It's time for everyone to pull together to improve California's competitiveness.

Moby

My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn't very good, but my pronunciation isn't terrible.

Mindy Kaling

I have an underdog spirit in me, and now it feels weird to kind of get my own way more often than not.

Mike Rowe

The search for truth in cyberspace will take you through the wormhole, and there's nothing on the other side but pedants and nitpickers and bottomless ambiguity. If you're not careful, you'll spend all your time proving everything and understanding nothing.

Mickey Rooney

If I ever complain to an agent about anything, he always has a pained look on his face, like, "How can you be so ungrateful? Why, Mick, I just named my yacht after you!"

Mika

I am totally unapologetic about pop music.