Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Margaret Mead

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Gregory David Roberts

Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.

Hugh Prather

One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.

Gore Vidal

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

Jack White

The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more.

Harry S Truman

Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.

Immanuel Kant

A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral.

J. K. Rowling

He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.

Ludwig von Mises

Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and not merely contrary notions. There is no such thing as a mixed economy, a system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.

Viktor E. Frankl

Being tolerant does not mean that I share another ones belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another ones right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.

Adam Clarke

Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.

Annalee Newitz

My first goal would be to reduce the perturbation in the carbon cycle. That would mean using carbon neutral sources of energy, and changing our agricultural practices to be less disruptive and polluting. I'm not talking about a policy here so much as changing the way our infrastructure works. That's why I'm so fascinated with changing the way we build cities, because they are the most developed forms of physical infrastructure for human habitation.

Ani Difranco

I mean, I think it's hard enough to find somebody you can stand for more than ten minutes, so, like, you shouldn't narrow your options.

Ani Difranco

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

Andy Goldsworthy

I'm an artist living in a small, Scottish village. So one would expect to be treated with some sort of caution. And the village and the farmers have shown enormous tolerance of me and interest in what I do. I mean, they don't necessarily understand what I'm doing all the time. But they, you know, I think they respect what I do and that there is a connection between what they do with the land and what I do, you know, that we're both dependent on weather and respond to that.

Andrew Miller

Listening is not merely not talking...it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us.

Andrew Marvell

He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try.

Bobby Thomson

I went into the Air Corps from 1943 through 1945.

Drew Brown

Corporate air is my business. Danbury Airport's problems have been featured in every aviation publication for months. This airport has gotten terrible press ever since the drunken pilot. What this airport needs is money for gates and fences.

Margaret J. Wheatley

We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response.

Stacy Schiff

What we know about Cleopatra's looks is based purely on her coin portraits. Engraving was imperfect, and that when you are a ruler and you ask for a coin to be engraved with your likeness on it, you are probably trying to project a certain air of authority.

Steven Van Zandt

C-17s should be ready to go at various military bases around the world packed with water, food, medical supplies, sleeping bags and tents, all prepared to be air dropped in alongside soldiers and doctors to begin relief efforts.

Shreya Ghoshal

I'm not a gadget freak, so to say. I own an iPhone, which I love, and would sorely love to upgrade to MacBook Air from my current MacBook Pro. But what gets me going is the technology behind the gadgets, new websites, new apps. And I'm way too much into social media - FB, Twitter and Instagram are always open on my phone.

Fred Kanter

This thing has many more miles in the air than on the ground.

Hon Ip

We should check the large amount of air traffic and air cargo between the United States and Asia through Alaska. We should investigate each outbreak like a crime scene.

John Koskinen

We think the basic infrastructure in the country is going to be in very good shape, banking, finance, telecommunications, electric power, air and rail transportation.