Figlio Upper Quotes & Sayings

Interestingly, modern science has estimated that the age of the earth is about 4 billion years. Scholars feel it is uncanny that the Vedic Aryans could have conceived of such a vast span of time over 3,500 years ago that would be similar to the same figure estimated by science today. — Subhash Kak

I absolutely refuse to bare midriff. — Lisa Marie Presley

I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away. — Aaron Stanford

It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith. — Emma Watson

The game has changed since the '70s as more coaches have looked at ways to make it tougher on defenses. But I'm glad my career turned out the way it did - I would have never gotten a chance to learn the defensive side of the ball. — Tony Dungy

You can't help it but you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts believed - so you were a good man just the same. — Kurt Vonnegut

I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment. — John Fogerty

The fact that a thesis is flawed does not mean that we should not invest in it as long as other people believe in it and there is a large group of people left to be convinced. The point was made by John Maynard Keynes when he compared the stock market to a beauty contest where the winner is not the most beautiful contestant but the one whom the greatest number of people consider beautiful. Where I have something significant to add is in pointing out that it pays to look for the flaws; if we find them, we are ahead of the game because we can limit our losses when the market also discovers what we already know. It is when we are unaware of what could go wrong that we have to worry. — George Soros

We can skip through a lot of the stuff people might ask about the writing of the book, and so their comments always start well, well down into the nitty-gritty. — Chang-rae Lee

I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple. — Walter Huston

My observation is China is thinking more as a global player than regionally, in both politics and economics. — Ban Ki-moon

Marry your son when you will, but you daughter when you can. — Benjamin Franklin

The natural/supernatural distinction itself, and the near-equation of 'supernatural' with 'superstition', are scarecrows that Enlightenment thought has erected in its fields to frighten away anyone following the historical argument where it leads. It is high time the birds learned to take no notice. — N. T. Wright

The "public" seems to have bought into this belief that life can, and should, be run without risk, that all accidents are avoidable, and that death is something that only happens to people who eat meat and smoke. — Jeremy Clarkson

They say that if you're afraid of homosexuals, it means that deep down inside you're actually a homosexual yourself. That worries me because I'm afraid of dogs. — Norm MacDonald