Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.

Joseph Bruchac

I often find myself unsatisfied with books 'about' Indians because they are written from the viewpoint of non-Indians.

Mark Smith

If you want to sell T-shirts and mountain books and volcano burgers in the existing spots, that's great.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

I had a happy childhood, with many stimulations and support from my parents who, in postwar times, when it was difficult to buy things, made children's books and toys for us. We had much freedom and were encouraged by our parents to do interesting things.

Matthew Scully

In the summer or fall of 1974, I read some books about factory farming, and decided that I wanted no part of it.

Jim Lee

In the '50s, a lot of stories were built around radiation and the proliferation of new technology. In the '70s, there were a lot of stories that dealt with the Vietnam War. So comic books have always been a reflection of the times we live in.

Jennifer Weiner

Instead of hoping that some day the boys' club will open its doors, we can form our own clubs, define 'worthy' our own way, and celebrate the books and voices that we decide deserve celebration.

Janet Fitch

I just wanted to live in books and in movies.

Bobby Robson

We haven't paid 25 million and 10 million and all the dazzling figures you see being banded about for strikers at the moment. We've been very clever and frugal in our dealings. He's not cheap, he's not for nothing, but we're very happy with the deal.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction

Thandie Newton

[We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from the reality of death.

Terry Pratchett

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...

Terry Pratchett

These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had given their lives for literature after a happy existence in the very best pastures.

Kimora Lee Simmons

You don't have to dumb down - you just have to find a clever, good, secure man. I've found a couple - I've been lucky - but it's probably hard for everybody to find that true love of a good man.

Kin Hubbard

Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.

Melissa Etheridge

There's been so many different types of musicals, and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it.

Michael Parkinson

So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or it?s a trivial - how do you like your eggs boiled?

Richard Fuller

Spaceship Earth: The problem for the passengers is that there is no manual to identify all the parts, and no instructions on how to operate the spaceship.

Nicolas Kiefer

I mean, we're on Earth, but he's playing on a different planet.

Paul Celan

Tall poplars--human beings of this earth!

Pericles

For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb.

Ed Baker

They're like manna from heaven, but they pop up out of the earth.

Charles Spurgeon

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

Kristian Bush

We've got the greatest job on earth and we feel lucky every single day. Besides, if you're not a little scared, then what fun is it?

Emily Bronte

Though earth and man were gone, / And suns and universes ceased to be, / And Thou were left alone, / Every existence would exist in Thee.

Kurt Vonnegut

The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.

Ludwig Bemelmans

America is a land of healthy appetites. It is not in the American character to live in order to eat. Rather, the reverse is true. Many try, but just as Americans don't make good gigolos, nether do they make good gourmets.

Tim Conway

This habitat is ideal for them. There's enough food, shelter and water to sustain a natural population.

Lawrence Tierney

Where's my food? When is it coming? What did I order, anyway?

Yotam Ottolenghi

The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food.

Emmanuelle Seigner

I don't like French food. I like everything but French food.

A. J. Liebling

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

Robert Powell

In the 1950s, as food rationing ended, I remember a plentiful supply of sweets for the first time.

Robert Budi Hartono

I don't avoid any particular food. But I don't eat too much.

Adriana Trigiani

Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.

Aldous Huxley

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Michel de Montaigne

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

Michael Beasley

You always want to be remembered as one of the greats. We know the history and tradition of this program.

Voltaire

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Joshua Simmons

I love history. I'd like to find more about the history where I live at.

Nathaniel Philbrick

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

Leon Krier

Tiredness sets a natural limit to what a human being is prepared to walk daily, and this limit has taught man all through history the size of rural or urban communities.

Plato

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Noam Chomsky

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

Clarence Darrow

In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.

David Harvey

The common-sense notion that 'there is a time and a place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

One must lose one's life in order to find it.

Cindy Gallop

Client companies and advertising agencies are old-world-order places. The systems and processes and structures come from a time when you shot the TV commercial, then you did the print ads, then you did everything else - including the website. Everything has changed, but the systems haven't.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The old order changes yielding place to new.

Andrew Pyper

We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works.

Andrew O'Hagan

As an old creative industry full of cruelty and moral sense, British journalism once flourished on the imperative that people required the truth in order to survive. But people don't require that now. They want sensation and they want it for nothing.

Angela Bassett

I love vegan choices, raw food choices, and I’ll eat whatever I have to in order to get into whatever shape I need to get into for any one particular role.

Anne F. Beiler

To overcome adverse circumstances, you have to learn to overcome your own hang-ups, values, and idiosyncrasies in order to value other people, cultures, and ideas.