Quotes with out-of-this-world

Quotes 5081 till 5100 of 5420.

  • Bill Mauldin While a guy at home is sweating over his income tax and Victory garden, a dogface somewhere is getting great joy out of wiggling his little finger. He does it just to see it move and to prove to himself that he is still alive and able to move it.
    Up Front
    Bill Mauldin
    American cartoonist (1921 - 2003)
    - +
     0
  • Burton Richter While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
    - +
     0
  • Burton Richter While a lab director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community. I learned this early in my career while I was leading the construction of the SPEAR facility.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
    - +
     0
  • Bob Dylan While one who sings with his tongue on fire
    Gargles in the rat race choir
    Bent out of shape from society's pliers
    Cares not to come up any higher
    But rather get you down in the hole
    That he's in
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
    - +
     0
  • Barack Obama While the evidence tells me that the death penalty does little to deter crime, I believe there are some crimes- mass murder, the rape and murder of a child- so heinous, so beyond the pale, that the community is justified in expressing the full measure of its outrage by meting out the ultimate punishment.
    The Audacity of Hope (2006)
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
    - +
     0
  • Campbell Brown While the rest of the cable news world moved to opinion, CNN allowed me to stay true to my hard-news roots and supported me with a true commitment to old-school journalism.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
    - +
     0
  • Carol Bellamy While the technology revolution has yet to reach far into the households of those in developing countries, this is certainly another area where more developed countries can assist those in the less developed world.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
    - +
     0
  • Carson Mccullers While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.
    Carson Mccullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
    - +
     0
  • Thomas Jefferson While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
    - +
     0
  • St. Augustine of Hippo Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
    - +
     0
  • Francis Bacon Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
    - +
     0
  • Lewis Carroll Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
    - +
     0
  • Bunker Roy Who is a professional? A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief. A water diviner is a professional. A traditional midwife is a professional. A traditional bone setter is a professional. These are professionals all over the world. You find them in any inaccessible village around the world.
    Bunker Roy
    Indian social activist and educator (1945 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bruce Vilanch Who knew we had all this O.C.D. in the world? Well actually, I suppose it's pretty obvious. It explains Sudoku, doesn't it?
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
    - +
     0
  • A. E. Housman Who made the world I cannot tell;
    'Tis made, and here am I in hell.
    My hand, though now my knuckles bleed,
    I never soiled with such a deed.
    More Poems (1936) No. 19, st. 2
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
    - +
     0
  • Carl Sandburg Who put up that cage? Who hung it up with bars, doors? Why do those on the inside want to get out? Why do those outside want to get in? What is this crying inside and out all the time? What is this endless, useless beating of baffled wings at these bars, doors, this cage?
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
    - +
     0
  • Sir Walter Raleigh Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
    - +
     0
  • John Florio Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.
    John Florio
    Italian-English linguist and translator (also called Giovanni Florio) (1553 - 1625)
    - +
     0
  • Epictetus Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
    - +
     0
  • Mark Twain Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
    - +
     0
All out-of-this-world famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 255)