Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Crace

I know my 17-year-old self would read my bourgeois fiction, full of metaphors and rhythmic prose, with a sinking heart.

Michael Caine

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with this intelligence and a million dollars

Karl Marx

The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.

Karl Marx

The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

Talcott Parsons

If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism.

Mao Zedong

It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China.

Charles Baudelaire

Il faut e pater le bourgeois. One must astound the bourgeois.

D. H. Lawrence

The bourgeois produces the bolshevist, inevitably as every half-truth at length produces the contradiction of itself in the opposite half-truth.

Mark Ruffalo

I live a bourgeois life.

Jeff Krull

Inevitably in the project we find something we didn't anticipate.

David Roux

They're inevitably responding to a decades-long march of technology into this marketplace.

Paul J. Meyer

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!

John Barton

Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.

Michael Silver

If I rely on the user to remove metadata, a lot of that metadata is inevitably going to get through. It really needs to be automated.

Victor Shum

Because the surge in prices last week was so strong, inevitably there is profit-taking.

Jim Rash

I was very much a latchkey kid. My parents would feel the back of the television to make sure I hadn't been watching it when they were gone, which inevitably I was.

Constance Marie

After having a baby, there will inevitably be something on your body - a mark, a scar or some loose skin - that wasn't there before.

Seamus Heaney

I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.

James Henderson

The marker itself doesn't say much. The story just wouldn't let me go. The story itself seemed suited for a movie.

Menander of

A joke without a point, inane and bald, itself a joke on joking may be called

Bob Bourne

Cy-Ride outgrew itself continually, right from the beginning.

Jeff Traylor

It's always worked itself out in the past and this situation will work itself out too.

William Gibson

It seems as though the Net itself has become conscious,

Noah Feldman

An empire that extends itself selectively is just being prudent about its own limitations. A republic that supports democratization selectively is another matter.

Johnathan Frakes

The last script was so wonderful and the story was so exciting. The film itself did so well and, frankly, it made so much money-it kind of reinvigorated the whole franchise.

Allen Lichtenstein

The discrimination was aimed at John McDonald. Domino's itself viewed JWM as John McDonald.

Margaret Heffernan

The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.

John Burns

I have talked to them at length about it in my office.

Edwin Way Teale

How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.

Dr. Seuss

Shorth is better than length.

Matt Dunn

All I'm saying is, where relationships are concerned, don't confuse length with strength.

Judy Hayles

She's a predator and she wants her prey. And that prey is my grandson. She'll go to any length to get him.

Evan Esar

Diets show to what great lengths women will go so as not to go to great widths.

Fred Couples

But yeah, it could be around a long, long time, especially the length that (the course) is now.

J. J. Johnson

Long-expected one and twenty, / Lingering year at length is flown.

Erez Lieberman Aiden

Much of contemporary science is really the length and shadow of the technology we apply.

Emma Thompson

Having reached 40 this year, if they were going to find someone to play opposite me they'd have to exhume him.

Rick Masi

We talked about when we had the wind at our right back, we wanted to use it to play it up and over into the opposite wing.

Richard Dawkins

Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society.

Robert M. Pirsig

The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

Virginia Woolf

The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.

Rebecca Solnit

If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.

Nelson Eddy

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

Nawal El Saadawi

I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

Howard Schnellenberger

It's no secret that this state produces high-quality players, ... And there is no reason why every team in the state can't become a winning one.

Stephen Covey

A little over 5% of the world's population produces almost 29% of the world's goods and services.

Robert M. Pirsig

It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil.

Joseph Hume

Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

Ted Cruz

I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.

A. Hodge

No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre

Richard P. Feynman

You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in.

Russell Lynes

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

William S. Burroughs

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

Richard Russo

I can be glib and truthful all at once.

Robert De Niro

There is only one way to gain access to the truth and that is to not expect anything.

Vera Farmiga

Honesty is not synonymous with truth.

Robert Ringer

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.