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Socrates Quotes

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: greek
Birth: 469 BC - 399 BC

Topics

Ignorance Know Nothing Fact Except

By ending the Hussein regime, the United States has taken away yet another incubator of terrorism.

Ending Terrorism United Away Taken

I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise.

Stand Noise Take Would Bomb

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Time Money People Care End Others

Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do.

People Me Enough Long Down Grind

A fly with a brain the size of a salt grain has the behavioral repertoire nearly as complex as a much larger animal such as a mouse. That's a super-interesting problem from an engineering perspective.

Michael Dickinson

Perspective Animal Brain Fly Problem

So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.

Truth You Know Tell Something Gonna

Everyone talks about how, in your 30s, all of these growing pains transition into wisdom and you feel more self-assured and confident, but I think I had a bit of a jump-start on that at 27.

Solange Knowles

Wisdom Think Confident Feel You

It sounds so weird, but I'm totally pro-aging. If you look at the film industry, it's so funny how it's so much more accepted that actors begin their prime in their forties or fifties, and for women, it's so different. I think it's time to change that. Aging is a beautiful thing.

Michiel Huisman

Funny Change Women Beautiful Time

On the second half of 'Under Pressure,' I talk about my family, and there are voicemails on my phone from when I was on the road that actually make up the second half of the nine-minute song. I transcribe them and rap them as if I were my sister, my brother, or my father.

Family Father Brother Sister Song

Unless a piece really said something, I had no interest in it. I have got to know that I have served some purpose here.

Purpose Know Said Something Here

I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.

World Easy I Can Difficult Modern

One of the shocking things when I go back to Canada is they cut off the tall trees - it's sort of like everyone's the same. Everyone's going to be the same, we're all okay. Just the, sort of, cultural, 'We're all okay.'

Trees Back Canada Go Okay Tall

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