Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

Douglas Adams

Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

Clint Eastwood

Go ahead, make my day.

Robert A. Heinlein

There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

George R. R. Martin

There is only one god and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: “Not today.

Jeaniene Frost

More of that hair-raising energy rolled out of Vlad, until I was rubbing my arms to chase the tingling sensations away. Was this what Marty meant when he told me vampires could measure each others’ strength by feeling their auras? If so, then Vlad’s had Badass: Do Not Engage written all over it.

Eminem

I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.

Bill Bryson

We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

Jesse Ventura

I ain't got time to bleed.

Tadao Ando

I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.

Sean Connery

Some age. Others mature.

Nancy Banks Smith

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

Helen Keller

Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.

Gabriel Iglesias

You can't be bad ass in a car that kills gas like I kill tacos.

George S. Patton

Battle... brings out all that is best.

Sally Ride

Weightless is a great equalizer.

Nicki Minaj

Slapped her then I asked her what's my name. She said N-I-C, the president of the N-Y-C.

Nicki Minaj

You lil Fraggle Rock, beat you wit a padded lock

Fawaz Gerges

The roots of the problem lie with foreign policy rather than in society, civilization or American culture,

Bertrand Russell

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Benjamin Disraeli

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

Calvin Coolidge

Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great progress as a result of your efforts. Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation. Waste materials, formerly cast aside, are now being utilized.

Carroll Quigley

Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of it and lack perspective, and because it presents considerable variation from our pattern of historical change.

Carroll Quigley

For the first time in its history, Western Civilization is in danger of being destroyed internally by a corrupt, criminal ruling cabal which is centered around the Rockefeller interests, which include elements from the Morgan, Brown, Rothschild, Du Pont, Harriman, Kuhn-Loeb, and other groupings as well. This junta took control of the political, financial, and cultural life of America in the first two decades of the twentieth century.

Al Gore

The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more — if more should be required — the future of human civilization is at stake.

Booker T. Washington

The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'.

Edgar Mitchell

The main problem is that we, as an Earth civilization, have not come to understand ourselves - see ourselves in a cosmic sense at all.