Samuel Quotes

[Elijah Wood] is a really fully-rounded, amazing human being, and I feel incredibly lucky, especially given how closely we have to work together.

We did every scene together, every day for four months, and it could have been a disaster, if we didn't get on, but we clicked straight away. Elijah Wood is just the nicest guy.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm in my right mind. Then it passes off and I'm as intelligent as ever.

Estragon: I can't go on like this. Vladimir: That's what you think.

Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me.

Yes, light, there is no other word for it.

When in doubt, do without.

The most potent and significant expression of statism is a State educational system. Without it, statism is impossible. With it, the State can, and has, become everything.

Psychologically, I'm a Roman Baptist.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognized for some time.

Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it.

I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.

The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.

There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.

One learns more from defeat than from victory.

We are not dealing with a scientific problem. We are dealing with a political issue.

The best player in the world; whenever Iniesta is on the pitch he creates a spectacle.

... engineering is a basic instinct in man, the expression of which is existentially fulfilling.

We recognize that we cannot survive on meditation, poems and sunsets. We are restless. We have an irresistible urge to dip our hands into the stuff of the earth and do something with it.

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.

Forecasts are difficult to make-particularly those about the future.

I've gone where the hand of man has never set foot.

Never make forecasts, especially about future.

We have that Indian scene. We can get the Indians from the reservoir.

I hate a man who always says yes to me. When I say no I like a man who also says no.

If I did that, I'd be sticking my head in a moose.

[The labor movement is] a movement of the working people, for the working people, by the working people, governed by ourselves, with its policies determined by ourselves.

The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.

A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.

Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.

What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?

THE HEART'S DEAD ARE NEVER BURIED.

With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.

The sciences are said, and they are truly said, to have a mutual connection, that any one of them may be the better understood, for an insight into the rest.

Ingratitude to man is ingratitude to God.

Why IBM? We have tremendous expertise. One of the reasons we can drive phenomenal efficiency around the world is because we've made IBM an e-business.

I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and its in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.

The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.

People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.

A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.

To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.

What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.

I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.