Meriwether Lewis Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.
-
I was actually already doing my Ph.D. in neuroscience when September 11 happened. 'The End Of Faith' is essentially what September 11 did to my intellectual career at that moment.
-
I don't think I do that much to prepare for roles in general.
-
We'll be really tight by the time we get down there to you guys. Everyone will have a really good time. It's trite to say thanks to the fans, but we really mean it. We look forward to rocking everyone's socks off.
-
The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapes of knowledge and never had their fill.
-
So what if someone wrote your obituary... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.
-
If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.
-
As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.
-
I think that when it comes to Social Security, all of us want to make sure that our senior citizens can retire with dignity and respect. And everybody has to be open-minded in thinking how do we firm up a system that, in fact, is going to be in difficulty in the coming years.
-
The process clearly is a process that leads in the direction of two states, ... We will lead in the direction of two states.
-
God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.
-
How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!
-
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice.
-
The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart...
-
Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
-
If anything, I've found nonfiction a little easier. You don't have to make anything up. Of course, that's the inherent difficulty as well: when you hit an information black hole, you don't get to make it up. That hasn't come up too often with this project though. I'm lucky to have tons of primary source material , reams of letters and diaries and memoirs.
-
When you get on base, holes open up and things happen and you're able to find a way to score runs.
-
Caught one a live by poreing a great quantity of Water in his hole.
