Wikipedia Search Quotes & Sayings

Someone called my character the Meg Ryan of the Broken Hearts bunch. Now maybe the perception is that I'm a Meg Ryan type. — Dean Cain

If you want to know what happiness is, you need to go to the philosophers. Start with the Wikipedia article "Philosophy of Happiness." Then go to the Stanford Online Encyclopedia of Philosophy, search for "happiness," and follow through the articles that come up to see what various philosophers have said. Then read the philosophers' works themselves. By the time you're done, you'll probably be dead, whether or not you are happy. — John Perry

He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had lived as an outsider, an idler and onlooker, well liked in his young manhood, alone in his illness and advancing years. Seized with weariness, he sat down on the wall, and the river murmured darkly in his thoughts. — Hermann Hesse

Money isn't the root of all evil; the love of money isn't the root of all evil; the NEED for money is the root of all evil. — Dorothy Koomson

The seeing have the world in common. — Heraclitus

You can't seek revenge then become obedient again. You can't pick and choose when you will and won't follow God. It's something that's done all the time or not at all. — Janelle Mowery

Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place. — Alan Dershowitz

The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions. — Max Beerbohm

I think I write funny songs that make people kind of, like, stop what they're doing and be like, 'What did you say?' And then it makes them laugh a little bit. — Elle King

Then the three of us hug, and if I could choose on moment of my life to sit inside of for the rest of eternity ... it'd be now, no question. — David Mitchell

Alphabetical order had to be invented to help people organize the first dictionaries. On the other hand, we may have reached a point where alphabetical order has gone obsolete. Wikipedia is ostensibly in alphabetical order, but, when you think about it, it's not in any order at all. You use a search engine to get into it. — James Gleick

I am living in the Google years, no question of that. And there are advantages to it. When you forget something, you can whip out your iPhone and go to Google. The Senior Moment has become the Google moment, and it has a much nicer, hipper, younger, more contemporary sound, doesn't it? By handling the obligations of the search mechanism, you almost prove you can keep up ...
You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it). — Nora Ephron

Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change. — Bill Drayton

Home cooking is anything you buy in your hometown. — Mary McLeary

When I reached the end, I was sobbing, all the love and rage and anguish I'd been holding onto since that night on the bridge exploding out of me. — Richelle Mead

If we were allowed to go online here, I'd tell you to search Wikipedia for chickens plus cannibals so that you could verify."
"Wikipedia's your source?" That was laughable. "Oh, please. The poultry industry probably paid big money to get chicken cannibals on there. It's an urban myth."
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"Why would the poultry industry spread a myth that chickens were cannibals? — Sarah Strohmeyer

The ALGOL compiler was probably one of the nicest pieces of code to come out at that time. I spent hours trying to fix and change the compiler. Working with it so closely affected the way I think about programming and had a profound influence on my style. — Gary Kildall

Today I meet with Dr. Syamsuddin Arif. He said Prof. al-Attas says, I don't read much but I think a lot — Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas