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.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners

George W. Bush

Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization.

George Steiner

When it turned on the Jew, Christianity and European civilization turned on the incarnation - albeit an incarnation often wayward and unaware - of its own best hopes.

George Orwell

Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated.

Fernand Braudel

The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

Felix Adler

There is as yet no civilized society, but only a society in the process of becoming civilized. There is as yet no civilized nation, but only nations in the process of becoming civilized. From this standpoint, we can now speak of a collective task of humankind. The task of humanity is to build a genuine civilization.

Henry Miller

The cradles of civilization are the putrid sinks of the world.

Helen Keller

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Daniel Clowes

Something I always wanted to do, to capture that later half of the '70s. It's like the early half of the '70s is still the '60s, in that there's still kind of a playfulness and inventiveness in terms of design and the things that were going on in the culture. The second half, it got much more commodified. It's possibly the ugliest era of architecture and clothes and design in the entire 20th century, from 1975 to '81 or '82.

Alfred North Whitehead

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.

Megan Fox

I'm horrible to live with. I don't clean. My clothes end up wherever I take them off. I forget to flush the toilet.

John Oates

You may be embarrassed about the way you looked and the wacky clothes you wore when you were young, but normally, at least it's hidden in a box in the attic.

Tyra Banks

I always feel great when I don't have clothes on.

Rodney Dangerfield

I'd like to get some new clothes, but I can't find a Big and Short store.

Bible Bible

And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.

Joe Morales

All we know is they have the clothes on their back, and that's it.

Calvin Klein

The clothes are softer. There's a whole mood towards pretty, soft, easy, romantic, full, relaxed, and it's reflected in the makeup and in the hair.