Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Bukowski

Angels, we have grown apart.

David Hogan

Do people want a concrete-lined river like in Los Angeles or a nice river with trees and vegetation? A critical habitat designation means we'd get the nice trees and vegetation.

Alfred de Musset

There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings

Angela Carter

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

Andrew Johnson

Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.

Andrew Greeley

Angels represent God's personal care for each one of us.

Andrew Peterson

Hey, angel, your horns are sticking up.

Andre Gide

Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.

Anais Nin

His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.

Bailee Madison

I was trying to get into the business from a young age, but I don't think I really realized how much I loved it until I booked my first movie and found myself in New Zealand for six months filming Bridge to Terabithia.

Ashton Eaton

I think a challenge for myself is to see how many times I can get above 9,000. That would be a good challenge.

Azar Nafisi

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

Azar Nafisi

I think Islam is in a sense, in crisis. It needs to question and re-question itself.

Bertrand Russell

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Jane Goodall

Every stage of my life set the scene for the next, and at each point all I had to do was say "yes" and not think too much about the consequences.

James Van Allen

I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'

Ben Elton

You think I look like a teletubby?

Ben Folds

When someone really goes to tell you something about what they're thinking, they're going to wear that experience with them. That's what you have to share.

Aristotle

Talent is culture with insolence.

Arlen Specter

embedded deep in the culture of the country.

Alex D. Linz

Every culture loves scatological humour. That's always a favourite.

Chuck Palahniuk

We're the culture that cried wolf.

Tim Burton

I'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - - Famous for directing unwanted cultural references"

Frantz Fanon

When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe

Greg Egan

Screw every known human culture.

Rob Sheffield

Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse; whether we're talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade's non-teen culture has no staying power at all.

Joichi Ito

Korea has an extremely vibrant gaming, blogging, mobile phone and youth culture scene and I was eager to find out more about what was going on.