Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Andrew Vachss

We don't protect our young, and we tolerate predators of our own species.

Sara Paretsky

You get weird and unsettling behaviour in the country.

Sara Paretsky

I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life.

Sandra Cisneros

I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private.

Scott Alexander

The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.

Scott Alexander

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Scott Alexander

Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Scott Alexander

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

James Hong

As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or a master, or an old-time restaurant owner, or a villain, or a so-called good guy - I will always be working.

Jim Bowers

After looking at all of the 500 pieces, I think they were either some sort of game pieces or were used for trading by Chinese workers. I lean toward the game pieces, though.

Tom Verlaine

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

Zhang Xin

It's a good thing that it is getting simpler to register a company in China, it is good that the exchange rate of our currency is getting more flexible and that it's getting easier for Chinese businesspeople to travel. All of this opens up our economy.

Chris Christie

Hillary Clinton: putting big government spending financed by the Chinese ahead of good-paying jobs for middle-class Americans. Is she guilty or not guilty?

Liu Bolin

In one aspect, my works record the history of the development of Chinese society. Concern about the situation of Chinese reality is one important theme of my works. I am trying to ask, 'How does our society develop? What are the problems in our society? Where is our direction leading?'

Liu Wen

Romantic music really stirs my soul. And, of course, I love Chinese music; it makes me feel closer to home.

Robert Ebel

We don't have that much influence over Chinese oil interests. We're watching. That's about all we can do.

Richard Branson

We are effectively in an emergency situation. But we are friends with the Chinese people, and this is a sporting event. We have no choice but to go over China, and we would be enormously grateful if they let us in.

Katie Gearlds

Aya was everywhere tonight. She had a great performance all around.

Chris Cole

I wanted to be that guy when I was younger. I had pictures of him everywhere -- on my walls, in my notebooks. Everything he did, I wanted to do. He was my favorite skater, by far.

Laurie Harrsen

Vanilla was on the list a few years ago. And vanilla is everywhere now, in toothpaste, sodas, candles, it's pretty much mainstream.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Anja Thiessen

We skipped classes, so we have to get back next week.

David Whiles

We'll let that percolate for the next 30 days.

Mason Cooley

Originality finds the unexpected but inevitable next step.

Fred McClure

My suspicion is that the next nominee will not be someone from the staff." ()

Marci Maynes

On our next date, I said I have an 8-year-old son.

Eric Haller

But when I do snap out of it I won't know it's my last. I'll just be waiting for the next one.

Jose Vidro

Basically, he said I need the surgery if I'm going to play without this pain next year,

Stanley Kramer

I'm always pursuing the next dream, hunting for the next truth.

Ernest Hemingway

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.