Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Bryson

18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.

Bruno Latour

India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed.

Abba Eban

Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives

Arthur Scargill

If youve got an industry where youve got massive investment, it doesnt matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.

Bruce Campbell

A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.

Bobby Jindal

We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel.

Alex Kapranos

Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.

Charles Spurgeon

If you will not have death unto sin, you shall have sin unto death. There is no alternative. If you do not die to sin, you shall die for sin. If you do not slay sin, sin will slay you.

C. S. Lewis

It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose him as an alternative to hell.

C. Wright Mills

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Audre Lorde

There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions

Estelle

Conservatives, they're like the Republicans to me. They don't do much. They have this whole hierarchy and boys' club thing going on. That doesn't help the regular person.

Herbie Hancock

I was making a hierarchy out of music, and it's ridiculous.

Deepak Chopra

An atom is a hierarchy of different states of information that define the statistical likelihood of finding a particle here or there at the time of observation.

Murray Rothbard

Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power.

Jean Ziegler

Profit maximization is the murderous strategy of global corporation hierarchies

Jose Saramago

Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.

Julie Burchill

Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as yourself, because that is how hierarchy worship works.

Bobb'e J. Thompson

I was the class clown type of guy.

Taye Diggs

You just don't see the same type of all-purpose entertainers nowadays.

Morris Gleitzman

Melbourne is my type of city, much more so than Sydney.

Beck

I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.

Barry Lopez

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

B. J. Novak

Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.

Mark McNulty

Those are the type of tap-ins you like to have.

Ryan Robertson

We're not used to that type of athleticism in our league. They get in your mind.

David Morse

I was stuck as a Boomer type in a lot of people's minds.