Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Hirsch

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.

Salman Rushdie

The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

Robert M. Pirsig

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

Roland Barthes

The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.

Robin McKinley

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on.

Rebecca Solnit

I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits?

Sam Abell

I now want to be a photographer of my time, and our common culture.

Wade Davis

Change is no threat to culture.

W. Somerset Maugham

The end of culture is right living

Nikki Giovanni

Kevin Powell is pushing to bring, as he has so brilliantly done before, the voices of his generation: the concerns, the cares, the fears and the fearlessness.

Liz Rosenberg

Knowing her, she'll be riding next week. She is a fearless girl.

Herbert Sloane

I yelled 'get me out' several times, and the next thing I knew I realized somebody was pulling me out of the plane. My instinctive fear was the gasoline.

Sugata Mitra

We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding.

Mike Ramsey

What we fear, in a situation as radioactive as this one, is that we'll have a so-called stealth juror.

James Douglas

Here lies he who neither feared nor flattered any flesh

Graeme Smith

We are fearful it is possibly going to be sold for scrap, which would be a travesty.

David Whyte

It is not the thing you fear that you must deal with: it is the mother of the thing you fear.

Jordi Molla

I think that's part of acting - to still get nervous and control that fear. I don't know how to get rid of that.

Keating Holland

Part of it is his resume, part of it is his announcement bounce, part of it may simply be that he's a fresh face. He is, after all, the flavor of the month.

Aarti Sequeira

I'm more comfortable weaving Indian flavors into American classics.

Stuart Fraser

The U.S. has been a graveyard for U.K. retailers, so investors are a little cautious. It could be that it wants to a get a flavor for the market through a small operation and then make a massive acquisition to get instant size.

Marc Levy

There are moments that have a certain flavor of eternity

David Chang

I love to eat sushi, and, you know, those flavors and wasabi and really eating spoonfuls of it... I would just mix it and put it on everything, literally.

Coco Lee

I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.

David Mitchell

The words 'maybe' and 'perhaps' are literally the same - the flavor is the same, the educational level is the same. But you just know when to use maybe and when to use perhaps. I think it's because of this: You get to know the tastes or musical tastes of words themselves, and this informs your choice, whether you use them or not.

Dan Barber

When you pursue great flavor, you also pursue great ecology.

Joe Reilly

We'll have to show the same old tapes over and over instead of our own stuff. You lose all the flavor and the emotion.

Nora Ephron

Joan is very funny. I'm always telling her she's a fraud: Everyone thinks she's fragile and humorless, when we all know she's wildly funny and the last surviving member of the Donner party.

Larry Robinson

I thought defensively we were in much better position. We're a little fragile in our own zone sometimes and guys will get running around a little bit. I thought our positioning was much better.

Jim Butcher

We're all so damned fragile.

Darcy Tucker

We gave up that first goal, and bang, it seems like we lost our confidence. Our psyche is fragile right now. We need to be mentally tougher.

Cathy Arnett

That's the first time we've seen this many houses in the million-dollar range on the market.

Jim Lewis

All the lights are on, ... All the houses that can take power are hot.

Gary Gambardella

They traded their houses for the big house.

Richard Gordon

Of the 300 houses in the area, only three are left that are not covered.

Lynn Forres

We have appropriated about $90 billion. And I don't see that the homeowners are getting it to be able to prepare to put their houses back.

Chris Proulx

What are they getting for houses in Portland? $250,000? Why?

James Mitchell

I say, 'Good gracious.' Who moved out? (It's) like he took 12 houses and just ran everything back here.

Butch Kinerney

We don't want to put in trailers or houses without utilities. We're talking about miles and miles of lines down.

Frank Lloyd Wright

We realize people need to live somewhere but we don't want to put ourselves in a position where we have 28 houses per acre.

Rick James

I'm finally locked into the now, and it's great.

Bret Ellis

I locked myself in a room for a month,

Moises Alou

I know if someone could do what he's doing, it's going to be him, but I didn't think he'd be locked in that quick.

Robert Manne

These are just unbelievable cases. A 60-year mystery locked in ice: It's just unbelievable.

Steve Alford

Right now we've got seven really solid teams that have probably locked up NCAA bids. I think we've got a minimum of seven right now.

Tom Carper

We wandered over to the speaker's office, but it was locked up,

Chris Kearney

Like every other private psychiatric hospital, we are a locked and secure facility, but not 'maximum security.

David Shearer

I can't remember (the West Bank) being that locked down for such a long period of time.

Joe Girardi

Miguel seems to be right where he always is -- locked in.

Paul Hewitt

I thought we were ready. Wake took it to us physically and we didn't respond.

Lawrence Goldstein

Physically it's very feasible, and politically it's very feasible.

Joe Haldeman

I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.

Jonathan Scott

I had three things to do: being physical the whole game. Win the game. Put on the Hat.

Kendall Simmons

That's something I'm not worried about. You just have to try to outwork them; that's it. They want you to come at them, but you just have to be more physical than them and I know we'll be able to do that.

Kim Clijsters

I've been practicing for a while now and physically trying to get in better shape as well after the injuries.

Steve Peck

Any time you play a rival, you're going to have a little more physical game.

Kelly Greenberg

They're a very physical team, especially on the inside, and I don't think of our forwards as very physical, so that will be a challenge. They're also a very hard-working team and they play very well at home. We're going to have to play hard, we're going to have to play smart and we're going to have to make some shots.

Mark Stoops

We are getting better and more physical and more explosive. That's what we have talked about doing since we got here.

Mikhail Gorbachev

I don't think Russia is setting this as a goal; I don't think this should be Russia's goal. I think even the United States doesn't need to be a superpower. China doesn't need to be a superpower. It's a different world.