Quotes 741 till 760 of 1807.
-
It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
-
It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years.
-
It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.
-
It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.
-
It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.
-
It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.
-
It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
-
It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
-
It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.
-
It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.
Cosmos (1980) 98 -
It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
-
It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.
-
It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.
-
It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!
-
It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.
-
It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.
-
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
-
It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.
-
It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a 'remedy', more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women.
All years-old famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 38)
