Quotes By Famous Authors: [F]
I'm eternally grateful to the penal system in California for saving my life.
About 1930, our laboratory had obtained a large concave grating and set it up in a Runge-Paschen mounting.
Friends, or frenemies?
I've never lived my life by the expectations society puts on you. When something doesn't feel right or isn't going the way it should, I ...
When I arrived in America at the end of 1967, my only purpose was to observe (for a couple of months) my idols, which were ...
I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not just ...
Question is the beginning of thought
Agapa Know what that is?
Humor is falling downstairs if you do it in the act of telling your wife not to.
If BlackHat people can monetize an opportunity (that is, convert it to money), and especially if they can scale it (that is, make money from ...
Age truly is a state of mind. Are you 30, 40, or 50 something because of the number of revolutions around the sun or because ...
True loyalty is that quality of service that grows under adversity and expands in defeat. Any street urchin can shout applause in victory, but it ...
If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.
The Universe has no intention.
When we are separate from our knowing and from those we love and choose to live apart from the love of all peoples, we begin ...
If you want a career, you need commitment ...
They say "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." In the Marine Corps, you can make that horse wish ...
Nothing is as it seems.
Bill Hader does a really good impression of me.
I don't like the taste it leaves in my mouth. ... Besides, OJ tastes better.Is that supposed to be a pun? If so, I'm telling ...
One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in.
It's funny, when I lived in Ohio, I would read about extraordinary, eccentric characters in books and plays, but I couldn't imagine them in real ...
There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions.
Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to pay bills, not to let my ...
100% Reason to remember the name.
NEVER THINK TWICE TO SAY SORRY TO THOSE WHOM YOU HAD HURT.
Never forget a customer. Never let a customer forget you
I consider myself a natural optimist. I like the dark side of things.
Cuba laments and expresses its profound sadness for the loss of so many innocent lives and expresses our absolute rejection of acts of terrorism, wherever ...
A painter's eye will often be arrested where ordinary people see nothing remarkable. A casual gleam of sunshine, or a shadow thrown across his path, ...
The fact Jeff Teague has never been an All-Star is puzzling to me because he's certainly an All-Star-caliber player,
One wrong guess left! x m t r f o a n e i ...
Love wins when everything else will fail.
The only measure of your worth and your deeds will be the love you leave behind when you're gone.
She raised herself up on an elbow, stroked my forehead & said in a hushed half-whisper, 'You will be famous.' "The seed was planted. Ambition ...
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
The idea of liberalism has to be recreated. In the course of time it has lost so much of its clarity and attraction that it ...
Whatever happens in the country, whatever warfare harasses our land, we will never relinquish our hold on Western learning. As long as this school of ...
I perceived quite early that I was a reader, and most of the people I came into contact with were not. It made a barrier. ...
Here's the aisle with tape.""Thank you, Miss Steal," he says. He picks up the most expensive brand, which runs $3.99 a roll. This guy is ...
When you lose your enemy, it's like you lost your love!
My grandma was actually a pretty well-known opera singer in Cuba, and then my mom was a ballerina. Two of my three sisters are dancers, ...
Even the sadistic misogyny of Buddha and Christ was nothing but an attempt to gain the better of a vastly superior opponent.
Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis.
I think i might even have preferred being the one gone and forgotten, rather than the one left behind without so much as memories"..
A person can choose to stand against adversity, but most people will run from it before they come to terms with who they truly are, ...
The thing about Valentine's day is that people discover who are single and who to feel jealous of.
I am whatever I need to be at the time I need to be it.
I think tripe is maligned. It's wonderful stuff, but everyone goes 'urgh.' You have to wash and then cook it, very gently braise it, for ...
My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. ...