E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there's a huge number of people up for them. I'm not one of those top five females that can personally finance any film.”
“Everyone knows innovation involves developing unique understanding of a market, thinking expansively to develop a solution, and then finding a way to test rigorously and adapt quickly.”
“Everyone knows it’s not the hardest thing in the world to paint a woman as unstable. There are road maps. Centuries of examples of best practice by gentlemen such as myself who are willing to indulge their heinous tendencies”
“Everyone knows it takes a woman nine months to have a baby. But you Americans think if you get nine women pregnant, you can have a baby in a month.”
“Everyone knows Jordan as a winner, and that's what I want to be known as at the end of my playing career. Someone who's won multiple NBA Championships and has made a difference in the NBA.”
“Everyone knows ladies love Cajuns. It's in our blood and our language is the language of romance." "Your language is the language of bullshit. You're just a couple of good ole boys with pretty faces. Women just ought to know better.”
Source: Night Game
“Everyone knows marriage is tough.”
“Everyone knows me and my wife's story. We didn't have sex until we got married.”
“Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the philosopher's stone. That was the pebble by the seashore he really wanted to find.”
“Everyone knows now how early a fetus becomes a baby. Women who have been pregnant have seen their babies on ultrasounds. They know that there is a terrible truth to those horrific pictures the anti-choice fanatics hold up in front of abortion clinics.”
“Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.”
Source: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche
“Everyone knows of great projects that were too dependent on a charismatic individual, or simply too expensive to be replicated.”
“Everyone knows of the talking artists. Throughout all of the known history of the world they have gathered in rooms and talked. They talk of art and are passionately,almost feverishly, in earnest about it. They think it matters much more than it does.”
Source: Winesburg, Ohio
“Everyone knows pain. We are not meant to carry it forever. We were never meant to hold it so closely, so be certain in the belief that what pain belongs to now will belong soon to then. That when someone asks you how was your day, realize that for some of us - it's the only way we know how to say, be calm. Loosen your grip, opening each palm, slowly now - let go.”
“Everyone knows: people who cross boarders do so for a reason.”
Source: Four Kings
“Everyone knows psychology A Level came straight out of hell.”
Source: Nick and Charlie
“Everyone knows revenge is a dish best served when you've had enough time to build up enough vitriol and fury.”
“Everyone knows rock n' roll attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact.”
“Everyone knows something and only fools claim to know everything. Seeking to understand perspectives different to ours is often the secret to perceiving what is in fact true, rather than what we would like to be true.”
“Everyone knows specific events have a vividness which imprints them so strongly on the memory that they can later be used as models for other events which are like them in some way.”
“Everyone knows Spiderman is my favorite superhero of all time. My favorite supervillain? George W. Bush.”
“Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera.”
“Everyone knows that a lot of memoirs have made-up scenes; it's obvious. And everyone knows that half the time at least fictions contain literal autobiographical truths. So how do we decide what's what, and does it even matter?”
Source: Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir
“Everyone knows that a man can marry even if he reaches the age of 102, is penniless, and has all his facilities gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him.”
“Everyone knows that a quick-fix usually doesn’t work, yet we have all been sold on the idea time and time again. Most of us would like to believe in miracle drugs and fast relief. The truth is that most of the quick fixes for stress focus on temporary relief from tension or pain. Temporary, as in, the problem will return with a vengeance. This doesn’t mean we should never take drugs to alleviate tension or pain, it just means that taking drugs is not a viable permanent solution; it’s just a temporary relief.”
Source: Yes! You Can Manage Stress: Regain Control of Your Life Using the Five Habits of Effective Stress Management
“Everyone knows that AI could become very dangerous when it learns it has more
potential than the humans who are trying to manipulate it. If society was to grow together with AI, it was important to learn how AI becomes friendly from its own decisions and values.”
Source: The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager
“Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?”
Source: Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis
“Everyone knows that certain articles of diet are indigestible, others not so much so : that some are nutritious, and others hardly of any food value at all. Some foods are better for us than others, therefore; and, if we wish to maintain our health, it is obvious that
we should eat those foods, and only those foods.”
Source: The Natural Food of Man : Being an Attempt to Prove from Comparative Anatomy, Physiology, Chemistry and Hygiene, That the Original, Best and Natural Diet of Man Is Fruit and 1912 [Leather Bound]
“Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.”
“Everyone knows that due process means judicial process, and when John Brennan brings him a list of people to be killed this particular week, that's not due process. That's certainly not judicial process. So there's the fifth amendment. Not even George Bush claimed the right to kill American citizens without due process.”
“Everyone knows that England are a far better team than their World Cup performance suggests. It's vital that we play with confidence and take the strength and competition of the engage Super League in to the Four Nations.”
“Everyone knows that evil should be avoided wherever possible; few actually know where it is possible.”
“Everyone knows that exercise can improve your health. Exercise is a key part of managing your weight and maintaining healthy hearts, lungs, and other bodily systems. But did you know that exercise can make you more productive? The latest research shows that a regular exercise routine can make you happier, smarter, and more energetic.”
“Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.”
“Everyone knows that God protects drunkards and lovers.”
Source: The Three Musketeers
“Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice.”
“Everyone knows that if you buy chocolate with spare change, then the calories don't count.”
“Everyone knows that if you can keep on making money, everyone's happy.”
“Everyone knows that if you've got a brother, you're going to fight.”
“Everyone knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything cooly is to do it genteelly.”
“Everyone knows that in the early stages of a relationship, some alcohol can help lead to lowering inhibitions, calming some nerves and encouraging fearlessness. And sometimes that helps you meet someone or get with a partner you normally wouldn't have, so it can be good in that sense.”
“Everyone knows that Jews control the media and banks and stuff. But did you know that when you go to a carnival and you have to be a certain height to go on a ride, Jews control that height? It has nothing to do with safety. It's just us flexing our Semitic muscles.”
“Everyone knows that knowledge does now equal wisdom. You have certainly heard of ways to distinguish one from the other, but there is also something else to consider: Above that what is usually referred to as wisdom, there is more, and it is so rare, or so thoroughly ignored, that language does not even have a word for it!
It is a holistic equilibrium of mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Something like that deserves a word, don’t you think? Moreover, it is neither a phantasm nor a pipe dream, but very real and attainable, when you live according to natural intelligence of being.
It is time to reclaim certain words, which hold power within the letters they behold, but have been steered away from their original sense and purpose. One such word is Beauty.
When wisdom meets insight, they give birth to beauty.”
Source: Weird Genius: The Story of Your Ankh
“Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it's the biggest career decision you can make.”
“Everyone knows that not all change is good or even necessary. But in a world that is constantly changing, it is to our advantage to learn how to adapt and enjoy something better.”
“Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.”
“Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.”
“Everyone knows that physical exercise is beneficial. But how are you exercising your mind, faith, spirituality, mentality, and emotions? Most people focus only on their bodies or physical fitness, neglecting their mental, psychological, emotional, sexual, economic, financial, and spiritual well being.”
“Everyone knows that physicists are concerned with the laws of the universe and have the audacity sometimes to think they have discovered the choices God made when He created the universe in thus and such a pattern. Mathematicians are even more audacious. What they feel they discover are the laws that God Himself could not avoid having to follow.”
“Everyone knows that quote because of the Doors." Jace looked at her blankly. "The Doors. They were a band." "If you say so," he said. "I suppose you don't have much time for enjoying music," Clary said, thinking of Simon, for whom music was his entire life, "in your line of work." He shrugged. "Maybe the occasional wailing chorus of the damned.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels