1565 St Quotes & Sayings

It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word all sensible objects have an existence natural or real, distinct from their being perceived by the understanding. But with how great an assurance and acquiescence soever this principle may be entertained in the world; yet whoever shall find in his heart to call it in question, may, if I mistake not, perceive it to involve a manifest contradiction. For what are the forementioned objects but the things we perceive by sense, and what do we perceive besides our own ideas or sensations; and is it not plainly repugnant that any one of these or any combination of them should exist unperceived?' (Berkeley, 1710: 25) — George Berkeley

I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for. — Jon Hamm

We often destroy the world's real wealth to create an illusion of wealth, confusing symbol and substance. — Susan Wiggs

It was a cream colored trapeze, sleeveless with a keyhole top that may or may not have been showing managerialappropriate cleavage. -Georgina — Richelle Mead

Ben was a very simple straightforward man with a brilliant quick mind. — Walter Schloss

You will hardly know who I am or what I mean — Walt Whitman

I have the libido of a 15-year-old boy — Megan Fox

Me. A bad boy. For eating boiled peanuts in the graveyard. Go figure. — Nicholas Sparks

mimosas dug for water and women like Auntie washed — Barbara Mutch

I love you, Gabby, more than you'll ever know. You're everything I've ever wanted in a wife. You're every hope and every dream I've ever had, and you've made me happier than any man could possibly be. I don't ever want to give that up. I can't. — Nicholas Sparks

I used to go to the same club every week in my home town, and even there I'd always stay at the back of the queue. I never once assumed I could just walk in. — Nikki Sanderson

it was not so much the new machines that revolutionized the world, impressive and important as they were. The truly heroic invention was the economic, social, and political institutions in which these machines were embedded. — Sven Beckert

Writers aren't exactly people ... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person. — F Scott Fitzgerald