Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rousas John Rushdoony

Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."

Barry Lopez

When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions. To approach the land as we would a person, by opening an intelligent conversation. And to stay in one place, to make of that one, long observation a fully dilated experience. We will always be rewarded if we give the land credit for more than we imagine, and if we imagine it as being more complex even than language. In these ways we begin, I think, to find a home, to sense how to fit a place.

Berthe Morisot

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

Carl Reiner

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Carl Sagan

The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.

Bill Bryson

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

Benoit Mandelbrot

If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).

Billy Corgan

In the music business I am surrounded by people who don't view music as a sacred voice. They view music as something that they can use and exploit, often times lazily. They have no sense of the tradition, they have no sense of honor about those who came before and charted the path.

Bill Hicks

The Voice of Reason is in us all...and everyone can recognize it because it makes sense and everyone benefits from it equally.

Mike Judge

I think I do too many voices in these shows. I think it's because we have trouble getting voice talent.

John Nash

I thought of the voices as... something a little different from aliens. I thought of them more like angels... It's really my subconscious talking, it was really that... I know that now.

William Wilberforce

No matter how loud you shout, you will not drown out the voice of the people!

Carl Jung

If you insist on the chase," I say, my voice much surer than I feel."Then you better start training. 'Cause, dude you're in for a marathon.

Two Chainz

I can say sincerely, don't take your voice for granted. It is truly what makes us all equal.

Chris Isaak

He was really cool, ... We really connected. His voice just aches.

Al Gore

It's an important point, and every little bit helps not least because those who make those kinds of changes are more likely to make their voices heard as citizens. But the ultimate solutions are going to come through policies.

Doug Conaway

Part of the problem with the fire is we are having roof falls. The heat from the fire is deteriorating the roof.

Michael Gregory

Our last two fires had smoke detectors, but no batteries, ... We're praying to get the word out (about smoke alarms).

Steve Martin

Sure, you can start now. Fire the janitor.

Don Brownlee

Remarkably enough, we have found fire and ice. We have found samples in the coldest part of the solar system.

Donald Brownlee

Remarkably enough, we have found fire and ice.

Marcus Williams

Play With Fire, ... there's no iBook in team.

Becca Fitzpatrick

There was nothing wrong with fire … as long as you didn’t stand too close. Something to keep in mind.

Bill Crawford

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.

C. S. Lewis

Friends are like coals in a fire - together, they glow; apart, they grow cold.