Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Golding

Latin, as we all know, ultimately broke down into Spanish, Italian, French, and so on. One wonders whether there will be an imperial parallel with English breaking down into, shall we say, North American, European, Australian, and so on. On the other hand, there is this immense, inward-driving influence of radio and television that is bringing us all back together. One could say it's a fight between the two: a fight between regionalism and the standardization through communication.

Dascha Polanco

I'm very proud to be representing Latinas and women of color, young mothers and full-figured women. I just love that we're seeing different types of people on screen.

Henry A. Wallace

Our chemical and other manufacturing concerns are all too often ready to let the Germans have Latin American markets, provided the American companies can work out an arrangement which will enable them to charge high prices to the consumer inside the United States.

Henry David Thoreau

It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which are raised out of the trivialness of the street, to be perpetual suggestions and provocations. It is not in vain that the farmer remembers and repeats the few Latin words which he has heard.

James Rollins

Festina lente. Make haste slowly.

James Fenton

A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age had no use for it, and the kind of Latin poetry that does rhyme - as for instance the medieval 'Carmina Burana' - tends to be somewhat crude stuff in comparison with the classical verse that doesn't.

George Farquhar

Aimwell: Then you understand Latin, Mr. Bonniface? Bonniface: Not I, Sir, as the saying is, but he talks it so very fast that I'm sure it must be good.

Lord Acton

It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their business, and that the nation is responsible to Heaven for the acts of the State -- ideas long locked in the breast of solitary thinkers, and hidden among Latin folios -- burst forth like a conqueror upon the world they were destined to transform, under the title of the Rights of Man ... and the principle gained ground, that a nation can never abandon its fate to an authority it cannot control.

Luis Gutierrez

According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally.

William J. Clinton

I'm pretty good at seeing like a lot of different things happening at once and putting them in a pattern and figuring out how you can rearrange it so it might have a better outcome.

Ursula K. Le Guin

All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.

Joni Eareckson Tada

...we will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and His glory.

John Locke

Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.

James Montier

Venezuela has historically a pattern of stabilization plans that then fail,

Bertrand Russell

Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

Brad Adams

This is a pretty typical pattern for March.

Michael Ondaatje

If you look at Japanese film, it is made up of collage or bricolage, it is made up of lists, and suddenly when you stand back from the lists you begin to see the pattern of a life.

Maya Lin

To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.

Steve Mills

It's not the preferred style for enterprise-class operation.

Kathy Ireland

I was 40 before I learned that 'No' was a complete sentence.

Mal Peet

A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.

Winston Churchill

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

Sandi Gibbons

This was the sentence that was allowable under the law.

Amy Poehler

Make no a complete sentence.

Anatole France

The best sentence? The shortest.

Graham Cluley

For that reason, this sentence should be welcomed.

Per Petterson

I do not think of literature as something confessional or therapeutic. I make sentences in order to be precise about experiences and things. I am urged by many things and no things in particular.

Robert McGrath

Somehow society shifted and took these things seriously.

Brad D. Smith

The world has shifted to the palm of our hand, or a tablet. We hadn't been investing in 'Quicken' that way.

Curtis Strange

I know he doesn't like the word 'ceremonial,'

Nikki Giovanni

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

Paramahansa Yogananda

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

Charles Dickens

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Chris Cornell

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.

Louise Erdrich

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Joseph Seamon

O God, give me words to make my dream-children live.

Stephen Baldwin

The word of God-what does it say about what his place is going to be in the Kingdom? Think about it.

Toba Beta

The word 'Atlantis' makes me think about two things, 'sophisticated' and 'corruption'.