Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

Jane Hirshfield

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

Aleksandar Hemon

Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it doesn't seem that bad.

Anthony Hopkins

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

Daniel Kahneman

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

Benjamin Franklin

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Charles Spurgeon

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.

George Herbert

Better never begin than never make an end.

Kingsley Amis

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

Gene Krebs

Polling indicates that 90 percent of the electorate opposes eminent domain for economic development. And that's without pushing. If you push, it goes to 98 percent.

Rob Simmons

I have always opposed the use of eminent domain strictly for economic development purposes. Eminent domain should be used in only the most unique of circumstances and be limited to a larger public interest.

Greg Mastel

For so many years, international finance has been the domain of a very small elite in a few countries. The message the G-8 leaders got from Seattle is that they need to make their policy discussions more relevant to the general public.

Viviane Reding

I expect thousands of applications to be filed in the first few hours. .., making '.eu' a powerful domain name on equal footing with '.com'.

Michel Houellebecq

I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head.

Aleksandar Hemon

Everyone operates within their own domain and obviously those domains overlap to a great extent.

Bob Denham

We were aghast at that decision. When you use eminent domain for private use, you are abusing individual rights.

Aaron Allston

If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?

Bruce Hillis

Our founding fathers referred to eminent domain as 'despotic power;' and that was when property was being seized for the government's use. There need to be some serious changes.

Gail Carriger

I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history.

David Byrne

I meet young people who know me and are familiar with my stuff. They know the package. They might have cherry-picked five or six key tunes. That's how it seems to work. I sometimes wonder if they realise they are not getting the whole context.

Kathy Collins

The police officers are familiar with the facility. There's been noise complaints.

Brendon Urie

I love shopping online for clothes, but only from places that I'm familiar with their sizing.

Vladimir Prelog

To grasp the essence of chirality, it is instructive to withdraw for a moment from the familiar three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional one, into a plane, and enquire what chirality means there.

Tony Pena

We have a lot of new coaches. We need to get familiar with every player.

Benny Looper

We've made it a practice to make sure the guys are comfortable playing short or whatever their position is in the infield. Then we move them around so they get familiar with other spots.

Robert Gottlieb

For Russians, to whom Pushkin's poem 'Eugene Onegin' is sacred text, the ballet's story and personae are as familiar and filled with meaning as, for instance, 'Romeo' and 'Hamlet' are for us. Russians know whole stretches of it by heart, the way we know Shakespeare and Italians know Dante.

Pat Barker

My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.