Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Erwin Rommel

Good soldiers, bad officers; however don't forget that without them we would not have any Civilization.

Erwin Rommel

One must not judge everyone in the world by his qualities as a soldier: otherwise we should have no civilization.

Erma Bombeck

When humor go's, there go's civilization.

Flora Lewis

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

Fannie Farmer

Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

Francis Parkman

Spanish civilization crushed the Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization embraced and cherished him.

George Washington

Freemasonry is an institution founded on eternal reason and truth; whose deep basis is the civilization of mankind, and whose everlasting glory it is to have the immovable support of those two mighty pillars, science and morality.

G. H. Hardy

The Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations have perished; Hammurabi, Sargon and Nebuchadnezzar are empty names; yet Babylonian mathematics is still interesting, and the Babylonian scale of 60 is still used in Astronomy.

Bruce Lee

Nothingness cannot be defined; the softest thing cannot be snapped.

Ginni Rometty

Don't let others define you. Define yourself.

Douglas Coupland

I think half the people who get married now have met online. If I think about all the people in my life who married - they met online, online, online. And it makes sense if you think about it, because you fill out this form of 35 things that really define you and - bam - look, you've got two people who match. It works.

Carl Pettersson

It was a little easier in the dreams, ... It's nice to finish it off the way I did.

Ayumi Hamasaki

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.

Nido Qubein

This is a turning point for High Point University, ... Mr. Wilson's gift will enable us to fulfill many dreams and heighten our standards to new levels of excellence.

Bobby Byerly

Never did I think we'd score 15 runs on this bunch. Never in my wildest dreams.

Marguerite Gardiner

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

Gaby Bussell

The region (5) we are in now is not as intense. It was good to play some of our old rivals again. Going to state is helping to make all of our team's dreams come true.

E. Hicks

See we just had a misunderstanding. I thought we lived in the U.S. of A., the United States of America. But actually we live in the U.S. of A., the United States of Advertising. Freedom of expression is guaranteed? If you've got the money!

Aretha Franklin

On the sly, scoping for love.

Bruce Lee

Simplicity of expression rather than complexity of form.

Rabindranath Tagore

Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in terms of music... The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.

Jerry Garcia

What a long strange trip it's been.

Hugo Ch

He was expressing the wishes of the U.S. elite, ... If anything happens to me, then the man responsible will be George W. Bush. He will be the assassin.

Larry Garza

He never expressed anything to me about pain.

Winston Churchill

I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.

Yann Martel

Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Danielle Jackson

Ryan has really stepped up and takes some of the pressure away from the rest of us. She's going to help a lot.

Daniel Burns

It was unbelievable, ... but I knew it was helping us.

Paul Tagliabue

The state of Texas, and San Antonio, are helping shelter hurricane victims. That is the most important mission right now.

Bruce Cunningham

This is special for him. He tried to stay with Shawn and that helped him stay focused.

Charles R. Swindoll

It helps me if I remember that God is in charge of my day - not I.

Elie Wiesel

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

Howard Dean

At this point, my position is pretty delicate, ... If I come out in the newspaper (with my opinion), it may not end up helping New Hampshire's position.

James Wolfensohn

At this moment the world is willing to help at the highest level,

Boethius

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

Robert Kiyosaki

Capitalism is about producing a better product at a better price. As individuals, we have to keep producing better products at a better price, also, or we're obsolete.

Andy Garcia

I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual.

Albert Einstein

I have no extraordinary ability. I'm simply an inquisitive individual.

Christina Hendricks

Sexiness is about being an individual and having conviction about what that is.

Tyler Blackburn

I really like individualism based on truth.

Stephen McCausland

In order to get an individual profile, you have to register.

Chris Rawlinson

It's my point of view that it would be unfair for her to be picked (in the individual 400m) after last night's race and I know Jana agrees with that.

Bill Sadler

That is part of the totality of the investigation, why this individual at that particular time.

Josie Bissett

I've sort of mellowed out. It used to be: I want to be a star, do big movies. Now, being married, it's like the reasons I wanted to do that seem the wrong reasons. I want to have kids.

Eugene Levy

tons of movies are shot in Toronto, but Toronto is never Toronto.

Jennifer Grey

Give yourself pleasure; see your friends; go to the movies.

Jacki Weaver

Well, I've been acting for 50 years now, professionally. I've been acting a lot longer. My mother reckons I was acting when I got out of the womb. But because I've been working in the theater, I've probably only done about 25 movies but I've done more than 100 plays.

John Fithian

Here's what we know about 2005: The movies are not as good,

Chris Evans

I'm not trying to steal the show. I tend to shy away from - I don't want to say the spotlight - how about responsibility? It's just very daunting. These movies are very intimidating. 'Captain America.' This is the stuff I struggle with.

Gellert

It's something out of a movie, ... It's so pleasant.

Tim O'Brien

Why do fairy tales exist, and why do movies exist? Why do novels exist? There has to be a reason for it; otherwise, none of these things would be there.

Deepak Chopra

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

Annie Dillard

We wake, if ever at all, to mystery.

Garth Nix

Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.

J. J. Abrams

When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.

Eric Bana

I like the unknown. I like mystery.

Calvin Coolidge

There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.

Dale Carnegie

Close your eyes. You might try saying. . . something like this: "The sun is shining overhead. The sky is blue and sparkling. Nature is calm and in control of the world-and I, as nature's child, am in tune with the Universe." Or-better still-pray!

E. B. White

"What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle--it's just a web." "Ever try to spin one?" asked Mr. Dorian.

E. B. White

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

Anne Bronte

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

Robert Frost

For hard it is to keep from being King When it's in you and in the situation.

Thomas Starr King

Nature is hieroglyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type; its final use is to set up one letter of the infinite alphabet, and help us by its connections to read some statement or statute applicable to the conscious world.

Theodore Parker

Nature is God's Old Testament.

Theodore Parker

It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work.