W C Fields Quotes
Our EMF meter was jumping off the charts. We found her alarm clock was causing crazy electro-magnetic fields around it. We spent $22.99 on a nice digital clock, and she never saw an apparition again.
The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.
Senator Kerry voted to undermine the troops in the field, and that is not only inexcusable, it is reprehensible.
From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm field spoke The wit and wisdom of New England folk.
Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.
The later rain,--it falls in anxious haste Upon the sun-dried fields and branches bare, Loosening with searching drops the rigid waste, As if it would each root's lost strength repair.
Data-driven statistics has the danger of isolating statistics from the rest of the scientific and mathematical communities by not allowing valuable cross-pollination of ideas from other fields.
The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields ... is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.
... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.
My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science . . .
Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of human endeavor put together.
The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.
If a farmer does abandon his or her "tame" fields completely to nature, mistakes and destruction are inevitable.
Straw mulch, a ground cover of white clover interplanted with the crops, and temporary flooding all provide effective weed control in my fields.
The quicksilver of creativity will not be solidified by legal pronouncement; it will necessarily flow into new and sometimes frightening fields.
One of the things I've done is tell myself I can't let bad things that happen to me on the field, off the field, whatever, affect me.
There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.
No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process.
There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.
The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.
It's insane how many Roman coins are being found! It's as if all Romans had holes in their pockets. They sowed coins wherever they went. Even in the fields. Maybe to grow money . . .
We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us.
I just have never seen anyone build anything significant in any field without having a deep and detailed sense of what they are building on.
There is no substitute for skill. It is the priceless possession of every great artist in every field of endeavor. It is instinctly felt by an audience and is reflected in the superiority of his work
Outside, beyond what is right and wrong, there exists a vast field. We will find each other there
I get a lot of kids distracted. Sometimes they got to go cover left field, but they're over here talking to me, getting an autograph.
Projection into the future does not create security because the future is not really there. It's a fluid mirage. The only security is merging with The Field, right now.
I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field... I was always tending to be in trouble.
I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.
African Americans were responsible for creating a lot of this beautiful and elaborate ironwork; we weren't just working in the cotton fields.
Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.
It took me a long time to get used to the reality that my grandmother had passed away. Wherever I was, in the house, in the garden, out on the fields, her face always appeared so clearly to me.
The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards. So the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur, backwards.
For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights.
Loaves of bread remind us of sunlight, but when we are inside that orb,we lose interest in building ovens,in millwork and the preparation of fields before the planting.
My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups of plants.
Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.