Frequent Quotes
288 quotes by 243 authors
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I think people who make checklists are the most miserable and alone because they are looking for the perfect Entenmann's that is delicious and has…
— Paul Rudnick
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Faith is not a function of stupidity but a frequent cause of it.
— Wendy Kaminer
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Anyone wanna buy my Malaysian Airlines frequent flier miles?
— Jason Biggs
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Quickly capping 363 oil well fires in a war zone is impossible. The fires would burn out of control until they put themselves out... The…
— Carl Sagan
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I could not bounce back from my divorce - emotionally - I just could not bounce back. With any bad situations I’d experienced before -…
— Terry Bradshaw
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I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my fathers frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me…
— Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
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As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in…
— Octavia Spencer
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Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the…
— Edward Abbey
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For frequent tears have run; The colours from my life.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens...are a departure from the plan of the holy…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Most English-speaking people, for instance, will admit that cellar door is 'beautiful', especially if dissociated from its sense (and its spelling). More beautiful than, say,…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered…
— Samuel Johnson
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The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense of making a…
— B.F. Skinner
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I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and mind. When faced…
— Mikhail Lermontov
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Not born to be rich, by 1981 I had nonetheless begun to use a PC that required for its operation the absorption of several hundred…
— Mark Helprin
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The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger.
— Thomas a Kempis
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There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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A salesman, like the storage battery in your car, is constantly discharging energy. Unless he is recharged at frequent intervals he soon runs dry. This…
— Robert Henry Grant
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Carrying on as usual carries enormous risks, condemning today's students to a world of constant insecurity and frequent catastrophes.
— William H. Calvin
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Women are extraordinary in lacking the estrus, or period of heat. The females of most other primate species become sexually active, to the point of…
— E. O. Wilson
Who Wrote These Frequent Quotes
243 authors contributed a total of 288 Frequent Quotes, led by these top contributors: