Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roy Spencer

Contrary to popular accounts, very few scientists in the world - possibly none - have a sufficiently thorough, 'big picture' understanding of the climate system to be relied upon for a prediction of the magnitude of global warming. To the public, we all might seem like experts, but the vast majority of us work on only a small portion of the problem.

Rosamunde Pilcher

Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners.

Rosanne Cash

If you're playing in a tradition and you have no reference point to it, no understanding and have not studied it, I can't respect that.

Ron Suskind

Every person has their pantheon - the Bible, Hollywood, Shakespeare - their way of understanding the world.

Rollo May

Man is the "ethical animal" ethical in potentiality even if, unfortunately, not in actuality. His capacity for ethical judgment like freedom, reason and the other unique characteristics of the human being is based upon his consciousness of himself.

Rollo May

Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation and see his life in terms of 'the possible,' and that this capacity is one aspect of his experiencing himself as a being having a world.

Stephen King

sometimes an accident can be an unhappy womans best friend

Stephen King

And if there are no cars or planes, and if no one’s Uncle John is out in the wood lot west of town banging away at a quail or pheasant; if the only sound is the slow beat of your own heart, you can hear another sound, and that is the sound of life winding down to its cyclic close, waiting for the first winter snow to perform last rites.

Stephen King

Little by little, writers develop their own styles, each as unique as a fingerprint.

Sophie Swetchine

By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.

Stanley Kubrick

I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.

Stacie Orrico

I am very determined when it comes to my music, and I grew up just loving those singers who had that urban sort of feeling. So when it came down to making my record, I wanted to have that as well. ForeFront was really good about letting me go in that direction and then of course adding the more pop sounds. I feel very fortunate that I got to explore some unique and creative angles musically.

Soren Kierkegaard

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand...

Soren Kierkegaard

The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be discriminated within the proper compass of the understanding: it is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.

Soren Kierkegaard

Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.

Stephenie Meyer

Uncle Jeb," we croaked in surprise. "You found us." "Well, now," he said, and his gruff voice brought back a hundred memories. "Well, now, here's a pickle.

Stephen Chow

One very important element for me to make a movie is, it has to be unique and different from any other.

Stephen Chbosky

Standing on the fringes of life... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

Successes are always unique and hard to copy. The fact that easyJet became a success is due to a mixture of talent and luck.

Stefan Zweig

In some mysterious way, once one has gained an insight into human nature, that insight grows from day to day, and he to whom it has given to experience vicariously even one single form of earthly suffering acquires, by reason of this tragic lesson, an understanding of all its forms, even those most foreign to him, and apparently abnormal.

Stefan Zweig

In 1938, after Austria, our universe had become accustomed to inhumanity, to lawlessness, and brutality as never in centuries before. In a former day the occurrences in unhappy Vienna alone would have been sufficient to cause international proscription, but in 1938 the world conscience was silent or merely muttered surlily before it forgot and forgave.

Spencer Bachus

It is my belief CAFTA will be beneficial for Alabama and the United States as a whole.

Spencer Bachus

By interviewing at least one veteran, you can preserve memories that otherwise might be lost. My uncle was a downed fighter pilot and P.O.W. in World War II, and I am looking forward to recording his story for inclusion in the project.

Thomas Hobbes

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Tim Ryan

Listen, were losing so much manufacturing, all over the United States.

Tim Bishop

The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.

Tim Cook

Apple has a culture of excellence that is, I think, so unique and so special. I'm not going to witness or permit the change of it.

Tim Berners-Lee

Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy.

Thomas Leonard

The greatest discovery of my generation is that we are unique. The greatest discovery of the next generation, I pray, is that we are one.

Thomas Leonard

Get your personal needs met, once and for all; if you have unmet needs, you'll attract others in the same position.

Thomas Kinkade

I try to embrace people with love, unconditional love, like Christ did.

Woody Allen

If I could only see one miracle, just one miracle. Like a burning bush, or the seas part, or my uncle Sasha pick up a check.

Woody Allen

How the hell do I know why there were Nazis? I don't know how the can-opener works.