Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Hunt

Science is about nothing but getting at the truth, and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in my experience, the science.

Joseph Roux

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

Karl Kraus

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

John Desmond Bernal

Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about.

Neil Turok

Scientists cloister themselves away from the rest of society, happy just to receive their next grant. They lose their connection to a purpose.

Eliot Engel

Scientists have stated that embryonic stem cells provide the best opportunity for devising unique treatments of these serious diseases since, unlike adult stem cells, they may be induced to develop into any type of cell.

Auguste Rodin

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

Simon Schama

Sculptures created from found materials like ice and thorns, driftwood, and even bleached kangaroo bones all presuppose that artistic design will yield to the cycles of time and climate, whether over an hour or a decade.

Jimmy Buffett

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

Hannah Storm

Secretary of State Colin Powell, thank you so much, as always, for joining us this morning.

Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Sectarian divide has created a schism in our society that is a major challenge. As monarch of all Bahrainis, it pains me to see many harmed by the actions of a few. And yet I am optimistic and have faith in our people. We all realize that now is the time to strike a balance between stability and gradual reform.

Mickey Spillane

See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older.

Barbara Kruger

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.

Nigel Hamilton

Selective memory is surely one of nature's most effective ways of ensuring the survival of our species.

Kimberly Elise

Self-esteem is such a challenging issue for young women.

Lulu

Self-indulgence is something to watch, but anything that helps you understand situations that are difficult to understand is good. If you're having some sort of emotional trauma, you need to find a person to talk to about it who says, 'This is quite normal; it's fine.'

Paul Weyrich

Self-professed conservatives comprise about 40% to 45% of the electorate.

Nelson Peltz

Sequestration, sequestation - however you pronounce that word - and gridlock aren't all that bad.

Adam Levine

Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.

Peter Hammill

Seriously, these days I tend to shut up in terms of external analysis and DO try to let things speak for themselves, while still trying to get some depth into them.

Charles M. Schwab

Set out with some definite purpose in life and accomplish that purpose. There is little that the human mind can conceive that is not possible of accomplishment. The thing to do is to make up your mind what you are going to drive for, and let nothing stand in the way of its ultimate accomplishment.

Camille Paglia

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.

Robin Morgan

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers

Simon Callow

Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.

Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Rachel Cusk

Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality, about their diet, about anything you like. Shame is the way you keep them down. That's the way to crush a girl.

Liam Gallagher

She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.

Mike Epps

She didn't break his heart, but I feel like a man is supposed to be a man, he ain't supposed to be all involved in that. That's why she got sisters and friend for. Just show up with the ring and act right.

Taslima Nasrin

Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home.

Prince Andrew

She is incredibly fit, but we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother.

Terence

She ne'er was really charming till she died

George Meredith

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

She said she was going out, and would get the dinner. That is the last I saw her, or said anything to her.

Jeff Buckley

She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever.

Neil Tennant

She's been a smack addict, she's had big success in Europe in the '70s, and she's lost everything. She's been rediscovered in the '80s, and as we meet her she's just about to sign a new recording contract.

Trey Parker

Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective.

Adam Beach

Once you lose your parents, you get this numbness, this feeling of having to really be able to connect yourself with someone. I depended on my brothers for that connection, but to have that feeling of being taken care of... I lost it when my parents passed away.

Peter Garrett

Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.

Trevor Phillips

Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to go with public law. Institutions have to make a decision whether they want to do that or they don't want to do that.

Dan Gable

Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.

Stephen Hawking

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

Star Jones

One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.

Marianne Williamson

One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with.

Cesare Pavese

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

M. Scott Peck

One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.

Grace Slick

One good thing about television is that you have a lot of people with money who have real good cameras going around to all these countries. You haven't been there? Great. Turn on The History Channel or The Discovery Channel. So, we're lucky in that way.

Glenda Jackson

One hell of an outlay for a very small return, with most of them.

Lincoln Steffens

One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got.

George Eads

One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.

James Thurber

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.