Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robin Cook

Chicken masala is now Britain's true national dish, not only because it is the most popular, but because it is a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences.

Noam Chomsky

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

John Morrison

This decision is an illustration that freedom of speech still protects average people sitting on a street corner singing.

Edward Bellamy

Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.

Barbara Kruger

All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype,

Bertrand Russell

These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second is: don't over-estimate your own merits. The third is: don't expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself. And the fourth is: don't imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any special desire to persecute you.

Reese Witherspoon

A [news] magazine printed a [photo-illustration] of me in a ball gown holding a vacuum cleaner, saying I started a company. Last time I checked, I'm not selling vacuums. It was very sexist.

Matthew Simpson

Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.

Max Cannon

I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over.

and City

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.

Richard K. Morgan

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.

Truman Capote

She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.

Raymond Chandler

Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.

William S. Burroughs

Too perfect to be sexually attractive.

William S. Burroughs

The idea was that we would decide the order when we looked at the proofs. I remember Brion Gysin saying "Well, why change it? It's perfect the way it is, the way it came from the printer." Made one major change, that is, the first chapter that came from the printers, which would be the beginning, we moved to the end. The first chapter became the last chapter. There's no actual cutups in Naked Lunch.

Virginia Woolf

But he could not taste, he could not feel. In the teashop among the tables and the chattering waiters the appalling fear came over him- he could not feel. He could reason; he could read, Dante for example, quite easily…he could add up his bill; his brain was perfect; it must be the fault of the world then- that he could not feel.

Woody Hayes

Perfect preparation prevents piss-poor performance.

Woodrow Wilson

Let me... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

Denise Ainsworth

Katie and (catcher Eryn) Richardson did a great job. Katie was hitting her spots and Eryn kept them off balance with the pitch selection.

John Donahue

It balances the overall impact, ... Quite frankly, you've got to satisfy the people who are paying the bill.

Jim Nelson

This was a good win. We got out to an early lead and were able to keep it for the balance of the game.

Henry Chan

Historically, you never knew what you were investing in Korea as the balance sheet was unclear. You go into a secondhand kind of a car market and you don't know what you were buying, so the natural thing to do is you paid a discount to everything you looked at.

John Davidson

I think it's good even to stay invested. We tend to like technology. But if you like technology, you're going to have lots of volatility because that sector is much more volatile than the other sectors. If you don't like the volatility, then it's good probably to balance that with something else, some other sector.

Jill Sales

I think it's cool how she's well balanced between hockey and school. I just think it's neat how someone can excel at both.

Randy Jackson

I think it's better than ever, with more balance than ever. There are great boys and great girls.

Stephen Hall

It comes down to housing. The College has long been concerned about the balance of the students on campus.

Jim Melcher

I think the market is at a balance point here and that we are likely to drift over the short run.