Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Challenger

Technology has sped everything up and, by speeding everything up, it's slowed everything down, paradoxically.

David Nicholls

…mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates…

Carly Fiorina

Urgency and speed are...things that everyone agrees"" Hewlett-Packard needs.

Bill Doba

We got our butt kicked, period. In the first quarter, their speed was something we had never seen.

Jamaal Tatum

We slowed down a little more. The first time we were surprised by their pressure. We let them speed us up a little bit.

DeAndre Rice

We tried to use our speed and quickness.

Douglas Coupland

I've got 911 on speed dial.

Aldous Huxley

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Angela Kinsey

I keep my sisters on speed dial.

Mike Dargani

We wanted to do modern Japanese. We wanted to tweak things, to play with ingredients.

Jehan Perera

It is a referendum on nationalism versus internationalism, on modernity versus tradition.

Arnold Schoenberg

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

Guy deBord

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

Frank Zappa

Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.

Giorgio Armani

Modern life requires us to be more and more flexible in our attire.

Walt Kelly

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.

Roger Lempke

If we want to keep soldiers, we need to train them on modern equipment.

Baltasar Gracian

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

Edmund Spenser

And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.

Aristotle

He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.

Noel Coward

There's sand in the porridge and sand in the bed, / And if this is pleasure we'd rather be dead.

Donna Leon

I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.

Douglas Adams

...and the Universe, ... will explode later for your pleasure.

Anita Loos

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

David Foster Wallace

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.

Confucius

To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure?