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.

Carroll Quigley

Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of it and lack perspective, and because it presents considerable variation from our pattern of historical change.

Carroll Quigley

For the first time in its history, Western Civilization is in danger of being destroyed internally by a corrupt, criminal ruling cabal which is centered around the Rockefeller interests, which include elements from the Morgan, Brown, Rothschild, Du Pont, Harriman, Kuhn-Loeb, and other groupings as well. This junta took control of the political, financial, and cultural life of America in the first two decades of the twentieth century.

Al Gore

The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more — if more should be required — the future of human civilization is at stake.

Booker T. Washington

The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'.

Crystal Eastman

No more astounding relic of the subjection of women survives in western civilization than the status of the prostitute.... In connection with what other illegal vice is the seller alone penalized, and not the buyer?

Andre Maurois

Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.

Ambrose Bierce

An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization.

Andrew Sarris

Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations.

Bruce Lee

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

Bruce Arena

What defines where you can rate yourself is the World Cup. You have to show what you are about at the World Cup. Hopefully we will get to show what we can do.

Mark Stevenson

We have to stop being defined by what we own, and start being defined by what we create.

Richard Holbrooke

In short, you can't let the deadline define the mission. The mission has to define the duration.

Sebastian Coe

Good running is the ability to have a very well defined on-board computer. The ability to judge distances when running in traffic.

Ginni Rometty

Don't let others define you. Define yourself.

Anderson Jones

Movies are the most influential medium in the entire world. They shape our dreams and our hopes, they define our heroes, they often show us how to live. They can be especially influential to the young.

Sally Kempton

Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly

Kevin Madden

One of his frustrations was that everybody wanted to hire consultants, sit around ... and talk endlessly about problems rather than define solutions.

Bob Crawford

Dreams do come true, but you have to work for them.

Emily Dickinson

Dreams are the subtle Dower/ That make us rich an Hour/ Then fling us poor/ Out of the purple door.

Damien Chazelle

I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.

Nicolas Cage

One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.'

Carl Pettersson

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

Carl Pettersson

It was a little easier in my dreams, ... It's a fantastic feeling and tough to describe.

Warrick Dunn

These women can't be my mother, ... In a sense, I live through them. My dreams come through them.

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.

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!

Alexander Rumyantsev

I see this as a positive step and I express my satisfaction.

Aretha Franklin

On the sly, scoping for love.

Trent Duffy

There are different views expressed, there's no question about it, ... As the president said on Tuesday, most of those he meets with express support for going forward in the way and the manner in which the president has laid out. But there are those who have different views.

Bob Dylan

The executioner's face is always well hidden.

Bruce Lee

Simplicity of expression rather than complexity of form.

Paul Graham

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

Mitch Kupchak

What?s that expression? ... Thinking outside the box?

Dale Carnegie

A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. Intelligence is like underwear, everyone has it, but you don't have to show it off. The expression a woman wears on her face is more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

Dennis Northcutt

As long as I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, and I'm going out and helping this team in any way, I'm going to be here, ... The only way I'm going to lose my job is if I'm messing up and not getting the job done.

Javier Solana

The solution of this problem is not only military, the solution has to be political.... We are prepared for the possibility of helping with a cease-fire,

Peter Briggs

The students get help they need, and we learn about the rest of the world by being involved with them.

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.

Mike Sanders

The stock numbers and political problems around the world aren't helping pull this market back at all. We've reached last year's peak summer highs and it's only April. That's somewhat scary.

Paul Tagliabue

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

Peter Diepenbrock

They all helped out on (Gordon). From top to bottom, this was truly a team effort.

Ray Elliott

I've never seen an individual request more time,

Ron Messick

They all had their own individual abilities, but I could tell they were special players.

Masaaki Kanno

This is a new trend in Japanese politics. People are increasingly voting on the policies of individual parties. Now the manifestos of the different parties have become very clear.

Leonard Leo

that they were very interested in making sure that the president nominated a second individual who shared the philosophy of judicial restraint.

Boethius

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

Geno Auriemma

We don't score on sheer individual talent. Sometimes we run stuff just to run stuff without an idea what we're going to get from it.

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.

Allison Anders

I've worked on movies where there's all these people coming and going, and I don't even know who they are.

Melanie Griffith

I've worked a lot. I don't like to watch myself. I don't go to the movies unless I have to go to the premiere.

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.

Golshifteh Farahani

The subjects that I am working are movies that say something. They are shouting or criticising something. I would hate to play a princess waiting for the prince to come and give her a kiss.

Eugene Levy

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

Steve Erickson

There's no rule that we have to like the characters movies are about.

Charlie Tahan

I started watching actual movies when I was pretty young.

Harmony Korine

I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.

Zoe Cassavetes

Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.

Deepak Chopra

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

Angela Lansbury

Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.

David Hare

The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.

Annie Dillard

We wake, if ever at all, to mystery.

Stephen King

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

Garth Nix

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

Isabel Allende

We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so small.

Freeman Dyson

In religion, you're supposed to be somehow in touch with something deep and full of mysteries.

J. J. Abrams

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

Bertrand Russell

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

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.

Bryant H. McGill

Command the space of your beingness - a space where you are allowed to grow into your true, unique nature.

John McCarthy

When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.

Blaise Pascal

All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.

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.

Adam Sedgwick

Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach the period of man's creation, our book becomes more clear, and nature seems to speak to us in language so like our own, that we easily comprehend it. But just as we begin to enter on the history of physical changes going on before our eyes, and in which we ourselves bear a part, our chronicle seems to fail us-a leaf has been torn out from nature's record, and the succession of events is almost hidden from our eyes.