FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young actor named Burl Ives and said, "Burl, you ... (Pete Seeger)

On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" Now let's look at how Einstein articulated all of this in the famous paper that the Annalen der Physik received on June 30, 1905. ... (Walter Isaacson)

As a kid I never knew what I wanted to be when I grow up, but the only thing I knew was that I wanted to create things. And then ... (Shawn Lukas)

The late Kenyan Nobel peace laureate Wangari Maathai put it simply and well when she said, the higher you go, the fewer women there are. ... (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)

Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement. ... (Richard Stallman)

Costume is always an asset. Normal costume you have a lot to say about - if you're wearing suits or ties, and what color you want, and how it's going ... (Morgan Freeman)

A lot of funny stuff happens in Canada. ... (Samantha Bee)

Hey girls, you're beautiful. Whether you're a size 32 or a size 18. As long as you're a good person. As long as you respect others and yourself. Don't listen ... (Gerard Way)

I love books where you can't get out of bed. You want to consume them in one sitting, devour them. Those are my favorites, where you've almost abandoned your life ... (Rachel McAdams)

What's important is that I'm working with very talented young people. ... (Maria Tallchief)

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it. ... (Marilynne Robinson)

Surely this youth will not serve our ends,' said I, 'for he weeps.' "The old woman smiled. 'Past tears are present strength,' said she. "'Oh!' said my brother, 'I saw ... (George MacDonald)

The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter. ... (James Clerk Maxwell)

What?" he demanded. "Did you just ... clean a dish?" Dee backed away slowly, blinking. She glanced at Daemon. "The world is going to end. And I'm still a vir ... (Jennifer L. Armentrout)

The Wretched of the Earth is an explosion. ... (Emile Capouya)

Thus the recent rapid evolution of human intelligence is not only the cause of but also the only conceivable solution to the many serious problems that beset us. ... (Carl Sagan)

She knew the gist of what he was leaving unsaid. All he wanted was to fuck her brains out. ... (Pepper Winters)

I try to stay far away from anything creepy and supernatural. I'd rather not think about it. ... (Taissa Farmiga)

I'm a Russian and all I know of Russia is what I've read. I yearn for the broad fields of golden corn and the forests of silver beech that I've ... (W. Somerset Maugham)

Our aim was not to create profit, but jobs,' Sanchez Gordillo explained to me. This philosophy runs directly counter to the late-capitalist emphasis on 'efficiency' - a word which as ... (Dan Hancox)

Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from ... (Helen Mirren)

Three tomatoes are walking down the street-a poppa tomato, a mamma tomato, and a little baby tomato. Baby tomato starts lagging behind. Poppa tomato gets angry, goes over to the ... (Uma Thurman)

If a work of art is to be truly immortal, it must pass quite beyond the limits of the human world, without any sign of common sense and logic. In ... (Giorgio de Chirico)

As hard as I have tried to remember the exact moment when I fell in love with God, I cannot do it. My earliest memories are bathed in a kind ... (Barbara Brown Taylor)

Some of us, in the words of the divine Greta Garbo, want to be alone. ... (Agatha Christie)

Guardian of the cave in the Hill Cumorah On December 11, 1869, then-Elder Wilford Woodruff recorded significant portions of President Brigham Young's remarks at a meeting, including President Young's explanation ... (Donald W. Parry)

It is now clear to me that the family is a microcosm of the world. To understand the world, we can study the family: issues such as power, intimacy, autonomy, ... (Virginia Satir)

Then came the gadgeteer, otherwise known as the sporting-goods dealer. He has draped the American outdoorsman with an infinity of contraptions, all offered as aids to self-reliance, hardihood, woodcraft, or ... (Aldo Leopold)

For me, Spotify is not even a necessary evil. It helps me do what I want to do. ... (Ed Sheeran)

Death is the price we pay for life, so make it worth it. ... (Joe De Sena)