Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Pierce Baker

Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.

Ada Cambridge

Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?

Neil Clarke

going back to the Stone Ages of Salem.

Randy Zanatta

Golf is one of the only sports where you spend more as you age. The peak spending years for golf are ages 45 to 64.

Craig Castleberry

I think it's just a vision for our church and wanting to reach a broader range of people. We're just wanting to reach all ages and contemporary worship can do that, if it's done right. People like it.

Wendy Wilson

There is a huge difference of needs at the current school. I'm looking forward to the ages being split.

John Lasseter

I think that as I had children, I have five sons, and they got into video games and were the prime ages through the development of video games. It was so much fun seeing them play the games and seeing it through their eyes.

H. Hunt

I think it's the one thing that people of all ages can benefit from year-round here in the county.

King Krule

Jazz is more raw than punk in a lot of ways. It's so expressive. A lot of people say to me, especially older people, 'It took me ages to get into jazz.'

Kenneth Clark

People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.

Tony Blair

What is happening in Kosovo is entirely unacceptable and the only way of stopping it is if President Milosevic knows that if he continues with these policies of barbarism towards the ethnic community there he will get a punishment from the international community,

Leon Bourgeois

The rise of man from the animal to the human level was prolonged by the necessity of rising from a state of barbarism and violence to one of order and peace.

Vivian Stringer

I thought Essence had a lot more points. She seemed more active.

William Feather

Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation.

Richard Hofstadter

The intellectual ... may live for ideas, as I have said, but something must prevent him from living for one idea, from becoming obsessive or grotesque. Although there have been zealots whom we may still regard as intellectuals, zealotry is a defect of the breed and not of the essence.

Russell Baker

The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.

William Shenstone

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

Samuel P. Huntington

The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes Western culture. The essence of Western civilization is the Magna Carta, not the Magna Mac. The fact that non-Westerners may bite into the latter has no implications for their accepting the former.

Rebecca Miller

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.

Richard Rorty

We are equal inhabitants of a paradise of individuals in which everybody has the right to be understood.

Robert Delaunay

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable