242 Area Quotes & Sayings

Watching hours of television seemed to help, but it took brainpower to be so dumb. — Chuck Palahniuk

I didn't realize how interesting the place I come from is until I left home and saw how other cultures handled things differently. — Brad Pitt

If I don't pull the trigger, how can I ever be sure you won't come after my people again? How can I know that? — F.J. Gale

Where are we going?" I asked. "The main road leads to all of the major kingdoms."
"Not all of them," said Amar. — Roshani Chokshi

Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars. — Yoko Ono

ADAMS. This is a great work, Sir. How are you to get all the etymologies? JOHNSON. Why, Sir, here is a shelf with Junius, and Skinner, and others; and there is a Welch gentleman who has published a collection of Welch proverbs, who will help me with the Welch. ADAMS. But, Sir, how can you do this in three years? JOHNSON. Sir, I have no doubt that I can do it in three years. ADAMS. But the French Academy, which consists of forty members, took forty years to compile their Dictionary. JOHNSON. Sir, thus it is. This is the proportion. Let me see; forty times forty is sixteen hundred. As three to sixteen hundred, so is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman. — Samuel Johnson

Being human means asking the questions of one's own being and living under the impact of the answers given to this question. And, conversely, being human means receiving answers to the questions of one's own being and asking questions under the impact of the answers. — Paul Tillich

But there may be a period, while the wings are just beginning to grow, when it cannot do so: and at that stage lumps on the shoulders- no one could tell by looking at them that they are going to be wings ... — C.S. Lewis

To hunger is to be alive and to hope. — Crescent Dragonwagon

There has never been a Protestant boy nor a Protestant girl whose mind the Bible has not soiled. — Mark Twain

The intelligence community's 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) stated, in a formal presentation to President Bush and to Congress, its view that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction - a belief in which the NIE said it held a 90% level of confidence. That is about as certain as the intelligence community gets on any subject ... — Laurence Silberman

It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground. — Jerry Greenfield

I always had the old-school model that I'm going to work for as long as I'm relevant and focus on for-profit activities and someday when I retire I'm going to learn about philanthropy. — Marc Andreessen