Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen Goodman

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

Emily Post

Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.

Louis D. Brandeis

Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

Dorothy L. Sayers

There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.

Gloria Steinem

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

David Letterman

I have talents aplenty. Unfortunately, precious few of them have any redeeming social value.

Tommy Bowden

He's as talented a tight end as we've had here in a while, but doesn't understand the tempo.

Truman Capote

Talent is a valued tormentor.

Robert Rauschenberg

I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.

Samuel Foote

Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.

Robert Mankoff

A lot of what the Internet is showing is that talent is more disperse than gatekeepers such as myself.

Walter Smith

God gave Davie Cooper a talent. He would not be disappointed with how it was used

Ruth Gordon

You have to have a talent for having talent.

Young Buck

I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.

Yoko Ono

You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.

Leslie Jamison

Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.

John Waters

As far as socially redeeming value, I hope I don't have any.

Francine Rivers

You are free, you just don't know it" ~Michael to Sarah

Etty Hillesum

We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.