Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wilson Greatbatch

Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option.

Allan Bloom

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.

Patrick Carney

Rock n' roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.

Richard Krajicek

Roddick has good presence on the court and has so much adrenalin

Lori Wilde

Romance novels have the power to bring love into the lives of readers. Through the characters, we get to fall in love every time we pick up a romance novel. What could be better than that?

Eugene Jarecki

Ronald Reagan's legacy is deeply misunderstood because there are political actors in America who, for several reasons, have privately held agendas that they want to sell to the American public in the most appealing way possible. They often find the best way to do that is to package their product with the Reagan brand.

Christine Baranski

Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity

Russell Baker

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

James Thomson

Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.

Rachel McAdams

Running through airports with pounds of luggage - that's a good workout.

James A. Michener

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

Guler Sabanci

Sabanci has many years of experience in the tire reinforcement industry, and we are committed to the success of this business through an advanced technology relationship with KoSa and a strong commitment to our customers.

Macklemore

Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.

Christopher Moore

San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city, with lots of great contrasts between dark and light, often overlapping each other. It's a great setting for a horror story.

Minna Antrim

Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

Charles Spurgeon

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

Sean Covey

Saying 'yes' to one thing means saying 'no' to another. That's why decisions can be hard sometimes.

Nicolas Chamfort

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.

Larenz Tate

'Scarface,' I remember going to see that with my father. We didn't know what to expect; we did not know what to expect. I was a kid, and my father took me, and we didn't leave. It was so disturbing, but we loved it.

Blake Lively

Scents evoke very, very powerful memories, whether it's the scent of someone that you know and someone that you love, or if it's a meal that your mother made.

Dan Savage

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

Heidi Hayes Jacobs

Schools are launching pads, launching our kids into their futures. Unfortunately, a lot of what we teach now looks identical to what we taught 40, 50, or 60 years ago. There's a need for both timeless curriculum content and timely content. What seems to be falling by the wayside is timely content.

Eric Ries

Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.

Walter Gilbert

Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.

Luis von Ahn

Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon as they get really smart, they're going to take over the world and kill us, or something like that. But why would they do that?

Paul Di Filippo

Science fiction is a literary field crowded with strong opinions, and no SF novelist delivered himself more memorably of his views - on politics, sexuality, religion, and many other contentious topics - than Robert Heinlein.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you're seeing justifies the conclusions you're making.

Philip Dick

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

Jacob Bronowski

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.

Karl Popper

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

Kary Mullis

Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.

Kenneth G. Wilson

Scientists under all forms of government must be able to participate fully in international efforts.

Ben Stein

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.

Paul Thomas Anderson

Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.

Boris Kodjoe

Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.

Ed O'Neill

Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.

Katherine Waterston

Seeing someone happy on set is just a very small slice of the reality of an actors life.

Geraldine Ferraro

See that's a goal that I think it's very good in the debate to find out who the person is.

Herb Alpert

Selfishly, I make music for me. I like to make music. I like looking for songs. I like working with interesting musicians. I like producing records. It's something I will always do.

Elon Musk

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

Wes Borland

Selling records is fantastic. But if you're not loving what you do, and if everybody is throwing knives at you, it can get old very fast.

Steve Carell

Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters. And there's something visceral about opening a letter - I see her on the page. I see her in her handwriting.

David Kay

Sen. Edward Kennedy knows very directly. Senator Kennedy and I talked on several occasions prior to the war that my view was that the best evidence that I had seen was that Iraq indeed had weapons of mass destruction.

William Penn

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

Francis Ford Coppola

Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.

Manoj Bhargava

Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

Loretta Napoleoni

Seventy percent of the fish we eat is black market, fished in violation of international laws. Our ignorance makes us unwilling partners in crime. Rogue economics is turning the global market into our worst nightmare.

Piers Anthony

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

Kyra Sedgwick

Shame is such an intense emotion. It just can drive you.

Bob Hope

She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn't help wondering from what direction.