Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antonio Tabucchi

The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.

Jacques Barzun

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

Bill Nye

If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.

Bertrand Russell

To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view.

Agnes Repplier

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

Agnes Repplier

English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

Alan Rudolph

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

Charles de Gaulle

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.

Chen Ning Yang

I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work.

Charles Francis Richter

Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.

Perry Miller

would be like not spraying your fields and hoping the weeds will stay away.

Pete Vagenas

We're right where we want to be. It would have been nice to score some goals (at home), but it was the first time a lot of us had gotten together in a long time. We're going to have to win on other fields at some point (in this tournament) -- we might as well start in the first round.

Ed Helms

Working on The Daily Show, I co-produced all those field segments, and that's another huge thing.I probably did more than 100 field segments.

Betty White

All creatures must learn to coexist. That’s why the brown bear and the field mouse can share their lives in harmony. Of course, they can’t mate or the mice would explode.

Anthony Lewis

Americans who visit Tuscany or Umbria love the landscape: the silvery olive groves, the fields of sunflowers, the vineyards, the stone houses and barns.

Jerry Parsons

It's too late. All you're going to see is patches of flowers, not big fields or massive displays.

Marc Williams

That's where the fields come in - to be able to host a tournament and get in the revenue and help out with the little things,

Greg Gust

Once we get a significant warm spell, we could see a lot of water start to pool in the fields and ditches.

Alan Watts

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

Bill Nighy

The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.

Chetan Bhagat

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

Elizabeth Moon

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

Tony Cristaldi

We'll be averaging about five degrees higher than normal.

Brian Davis

They finally all played well. It was 20-25 mph winds and it was 48 degrees when it started. But the team played well and persevered.

Paul Morris

It's 180 degrees different than what it was in the '60s.

Bob Newhart

Richard Pryor introduced me to the world of the inner city, and the urban world, and did it hysterically. My favorite comedian, even though we work 180 degrees differently, but funny is funny is funny.

David Alan Grier

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.