Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Hirsch

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.

Salman Rushdie

The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

Robert M. Pirsig

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

Roland Barthes

The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.

Robin McKinley

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on.

Rebecca Solnit

I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits?

Sam Abell

I now want to be a photographer of my time, and our common culture.

Wade Davis

Change is no threat to culture.

W. Somerset Maugham

The end of culture is right living

Laurie got offended that I used the word "puke." But to me, that's what her dinner tasted like.

Ward McAllister

A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

Ernie Whitt

We had a nice dinner and a few ... ginger-ales.

P. G. Wodehouse

He looked haggard and careworn, like a Borgia who has suddenly remembered that he has forgotten to shove cyanide in the consommé, and the dinner-gong due any moment.

Marc Danley

They're more than customers; they are like friends and family. We've even had some second generations come in to have their rehearsal dinners here, the same place their parents had theirs.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Until then, I was knocking on doors. Afterward, my wife and I started to get a different kind of dinner invitation altogether.

Jennifer Aniston

As an actor, you have be up in the morning, so you make your dinner and go to bed.

Rachael Ray

Rachael Ray 365: No Repeats: A Year of Deliciously Different Dinners

Rusty Wallace

I've never seen it yet, so I'm going over to look at it. He's got it all done and it's for sale. The rest of the day, I might play nine holes of golf. Then, I'm going to have a nice early dinner at my favorite Italian joint.

Jerry Costello

Jobs are disappearing from every sector of the economy, from engineering to health care workers, forcing hundreds of thousands of families into unemployment and low-paying jobs.

Amar'e Stoudemire

It hit me personally because I've been in that type of situation when I was a kid (living in a number of different homes in Florida), when I really didn't have a household to go to. When I see those families and kids down there, I see myself.

Jose Bono

Today is a day of pain and mourning and solidarity with the families who lost loved ones.

Shirley MacLaine

I think that families are the most important lesson we can learn from and in, and I haven't seen many pictures lately that have to do with the search for who we are and identity,

Jennifer Duffy

In the end, the judgment is going to be rendered by the families themselves. What the people who were in the room say is ultimately how he will be remembered in this crisis.

Davitt McAteer

The families ought to be involved. If we have families that are involved in mine safety, the mines will be safer.

Ken Georgetti

These positive numbers also tell us that it is the time to plan and the time to invest in the skills needed for the future if, as a country, we want to keep unemployment low and improve the quality of life of working people, their families and their communities.

Laura Bush

This holiday, when we have so many American military men and women deployed, it's a bittersweet holiday for the families who are here separated from their loved ones, ... Larry King Live.

Kathi Moore

The hospital is taking an important step in support of stronger and healthier families in our community.

Eric Heitmann

I took Thomas' passing pretty hard, ... The things that are helping us are to talk about Thomas, and to re-live his life. On the plane on the way home, we gathered a big group of us, and we just sat and rehashed everything we could remember about Thomas. There was just so much joy in his life.

Bible Bible

And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.

Jeff Garcia

I am going to do everything that I can to maintain my physical strength, maintain my physical conditioning. I'll even sit on my butt and throw the football, just so I can keep that motion intact.

Carlos Ghosn

Our objective is to maintain the successful momentum of the team.

Tom Grzymala

You want to maintain a balanced, diversified portfolio.

Grant Thrall

It's important that communities maintain their sense of place identity, so that they are not just one more blob of suburban sprawl, that they are something special ... People do like themes.

Cheryl Cook

It's a lot of work for the owner ? maintain it, keep it in pristine condition.

Bill Cline

It may just simply not be cost-effective to maintain the physical trading floor.

Jay Weatherill

I don't think the AAA is an end in itself; we will maintain prudent financial management with or without the AAA.

Mike Black

We were trying to maintain where we were at (down by 10), but when you can't score it makes it really hard. Chesterton started playing better on offense, and we played worse.

David Liston

BOI needs an acquisition to maintain its growth,

W. Somerset Maugham

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

Mallory Ortberg

Diapers do not belong on the same table as food.

Scott Olson

They will turn the tables if they know someone is after them.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The element of surprise wasn't allowed near the Periodic Table.

Diana Vreeland

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

Marilyn vos Savant

Be able to set a table so that you feel like you're dining, not just sitting and eating.

Michel de Montaigne

And not to serve for a table-talk.

Boomer Esiason

I got the title for you, ... Table For One.

James A. Garfield

I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table.

Jonas Jennings

Have you ever tried to write with one hand?

Jim Gallagher

I didn't get a sense of what the temperature is on that. I tried to allay the fears, and there are significant fears.

Nate Robinson

I am going to go at him (Iverson). I am going to make him play defense. That is what I tried to do tonight.

Marc Grossman

had some questions, we tried to give some answers... it was not negotiations.

Travis Garrison

I just tried to do what I could.

Kwame Brown

I just tried to play the right way.

Bill Laimbeer

I tried hard, it was close, but it didn't happen.

Tom Johnston

I tried to deport him once because he's Canadian.

Jeremy Shockey

I tried it their way and now I wanted to try it my way,