Famous Quotes & Sayings

Van Jones

In addition, black folks need to attend green conferences, too. We just self-segregate and don't go. They might even waive your fee if you apply on a diversity basis, because they'd be so shocked to see somebody from a different background wanting to be a part of the green movement.

Will Self

One of the most heartening phenomena in today's Britain is the great diversity of the modern nerd - the nerd is out and proud, and while she may love 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' merchandise more than is strictly warranted, she is in every way to be cherished as an exemplar of cosmopolitanism and tolerance.

William Sloane Coffin

Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.

Samuel Johnson

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

W. Somerset Maugham

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

David Haas

In terms of diversity and geography, it's very similar to the new Legg Mason.

Noam Chomsky

It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.

Murray Gell-Mann

Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.

R. D. Laing

There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

Winston Churchill

We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

Washington Irving

[I]n the gloomy month of February.... The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at such a time...

Steve Cram

Paula Radcliffe needs to be gutsy to win the London Marathon.

Karl Pilkington

I don't know any Londoners 'cos I'm from Manchester.

Alan Rickman

You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.

Edgar Wright

Near my apartment in London, a lot of the pubs kind of look identical, which is very strange.

Damon Allen

Is London a place where 5,000-10,000 people would come out to the stadium and watch it? Then, it's a candidate.

Jane Austen

Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.

Debra Messing

I love London. I love England. We were out in the countryside and I had the time of my life

Ted Brennan

It got so hot those few weeks, I know it easily got to 120 degrees in there. The wine was literally cooked.

Sarah McLachlan

I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.

Caroline Knapp

I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree.

Ted Koppel

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.

Jonathan Haidt

Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree.

Jonathan Edwards

No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety.

Emma Watson

I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.

John Hodgman

So I am a product of the Internet, and to some degree a product of this sensibility of constant cultural reference.