Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chamfort

Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last

Michael Klim

People have been writing us off, people who don't have the knowledge or expertise.

Luigi Pirandello

Our whole knowledge of the world hangs on this very slender thread: the re-gu-la-ri-ty of our experiences

Maurice Cheeks

Players have a lot of knowledge. It would be silly of me to say if they suggest something that I wouldn't look at it.

Bernard Beckett

A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.

Bertrand Russell

Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then suchand such another proposition is true of that thing.... Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Bertrand Russell

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

Bertrand Russell

History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition of all the rest. That all knowledge, as such, is in some degree good, would appear to be at least probable; and the knowledge of every historical fact possesses this element of goodness, even if it posses no other.

Bertrand Russell

All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.

Christine Lahti

I was a gypsy my whole life, until I did this series. For the first time I can stay home. The studio's only 20 minutes from my house.

Hilarie Burton

I move around a lot. I've lived in a ton of different places - and only for a month or two at a time. I have a deep, rabid curiosity, so I like having a gypsy life.

Clarence Rodriguez

Living like a gypsy wasn't going to work for me. I'm too much of a loner.

Dolly Parton

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

Cher

I'm from a Gypsy background!

Sofia Milos

I'm very much into the Gypsy Kings. It's rumba and very festive, very passionate music, rhythmic guitar, passionate singing about love from happy people.

Franz Liszt

In the oldest chronicles of the times conserved in Hungary, reports will be found of Gypsy music, but never of any other, either Magyar, Slavic or Jewish.

Cassandra Clare

Will: I say we sell her to the Gypsies on Hampstead Heath. I hear they puchase spare women as well as hoses. Charlotte: Will, stop it. That's ridivulous. Will:You're right. They'd never buy her. Too scrawny.

Neon Hitch

I'm out here to represent the gingers, the gypsies, and the outcasts. Because I am all of the above, and I'm all about having a great time.

Lane Olinghouse

Remember when atmospheric contaminants were romantically called stardust?

Beck

I remember you would record a guitar part, and we would have to sit there for 15 or 20 minutes waiting for the computer to process it. You'd see the little wheel spinning on the computer, and you'd be praying that the hard drive didn't crash and you didn't lose the performance.

Bill Dixon

If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in different situations - something that I imagine could be troublesome.

Carl Sagan

Even through your hardest days, remember we are all made of stardust.

Bill Vaughan

These are days you'll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.

Gary Snyder

That's the part most of us can remember being part of homeroom,

Juanita Johnson

I was thinking, 'Well, this is easy.' Three-fourths into it, I remember sweating. I hadn't sweated in a long time.

Larry Anderson

I was here for Camille and I'm leaving. I was here and I remember it well. I don't want to be here for another one.

Eric Osmundson

I thought oh, not again. I remember my first year here was a similar situation.