Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benoit Mandelbrot

Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but then mathematicians had become very abstract.

Charles Spurgeon

Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world

Carl Sandburg

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

Dirk Benedict

I am very abnormal... But it wasnt very long ago that I wasnt so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

Ashwin Sanghi

Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

Eleanor Porter

I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.

Albert Einstein

Capitalism creates a huge community of producers who are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor, and an oligarchy that cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized society....the subjugation is not by force but because the privileged class has long ago established a system of values by which the people were thenceforth, to a large extent unconsciously, guided in their social behavior.

Dick Cheney

I got sick, hospitalized, had no insurance. And the money I had saved for our honeymoon went to pay medical bills. So I had been in the position of not having insurance when I needed health care.

Michael Moore

The No. 1 cause of bankruptcies is medical bills.

James H. Boren

I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.

Parker Posey

I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins.

Gary Coleman

I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.