Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Ripley

If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.

Kathy Acker

I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used.

Kathy Acker

I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.

Kathy Acker

But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is.

Kathy Acker

Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know.

Kathy Acker

I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?

Kathy Acker

You can do whatever you want with my work.

Kathy Acker

I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way.

Kathy Acker

There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now.

Bobby Hauck

Jake's a good tackler. That's how guys who walk onto your program find their way onto the field, and that's the benefit of going live out here and watching them play.

Sathya Baba

Keep your own house and its surroundings pure and clean. This hygiene will keep you healthy and benefit your worldly life.

Mike Wallace

Just merging the two organizations has a lot of challenges, ... The potential pitfalls and opportunities for disagreements exceed whatever benefits could be gained.

Muhammad Abdullah

It benefits me more because I'm more in the box. It puts me in the position where I can make more plays and bigger plays for the team.

Ben Martinez

I also depart from this portion of my life with a great sense of pride having played an integral part of the many projects and programs that will benefit National City residents in the coming years.

Francisco Gonzalez

Having a Club Manager with such diverse experience at the executive level will be of great benefit to the club. We are excited and are looking forward to Oscar bringing the Club to the next level.

Lindsey Stephens

There are still a number of patients that I've seen that are eligible seniors who are still not signed up for the plan. Either they have heard horror stories about it or they aren't sure it will really benefit them.

Najib Razak

If we can increase the share of Islamic finance for the world, countries can benefit - and certainly, Malaysia can benefit from that.

Gary Williams

What you have to try to do is put yourself in as good a position as you can put yourself into. Probably, we didn't get into a real good position this year with some of the things that happened. Hopefully, the younger guys on the team benefit from that and the seniors get a little different resolve as they leave.

Daniel Petrie

They studio were flabbergasted when they discovered how interested everybody was in 'those old people.' And now many upcoming projects feature older people; it's become a trend.

Ken Robinson

Whether or not you discover your talents and passions is partly a matter of opportunity. If you've never been sailing, or picked up an instrument, or tried to teach or to write fiction, how would you know if you had a talent for these things?

Jim Fox

Her perspective led me into self-discovery. I got to see the other side.

Brett Johnson

It is a journey of discovery - artistically, sexually, socially.

Dan Shechtman

I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.

James Hogg

He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions.

Pierre Fermat

I have discovered a truly remarkable proof which this margin is too small to contain.

Matt Reeves

I discovered the fun of genre is... you get to explore your fears, and you get to use the metaphor of the genre - whether it's a giant monster or a... 12-year-old vampire. Whatever it is, you can sink something underneath the surface and make a personal film under the guise of great fun romp.

Michael Steger

I discovered that I wanted to be an actor back when I did my first play in junior high. I've been doing theater in junior high and high school, and I just kept feeding the fire, kept wanting to pursue acting full-on.

William Wordsworth

Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our infirmity.

William Wordsworth

Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!

Harold Johnson

Remember I did my part with the life that I had, and though it was short that's not all bad. Each person must live as he believes, and I hope Old Glory still waves in the breeze,

Bible Bible

And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty.

David Rebovich

It seems this term would have been the crowning glory with the opening of the new arena. I think it's a surprise if he does not run.

Luke Enos

It's unbelievable. Give the glory to God. He was with us the whole time.

Jonas Honick

They realized that individual glory wasn't as important as the team's success.

Ellen Kaminsky

It was fabulous. It was like the old glory days.

Clive Thompson

Novelists in particular love to rhapsodize about the glory of the solitary mind; this is natural, because their job requires them to sit in a room by themselves for years on end. But for most of the rest of us, we think and remember socially.

Anita Diament

I'm not a literary writer. I didn't go to whatever school it is or have the mentor you need to get reviewed in the New York Times.

Joanne Kelly

I'm a child of the literary bent. I don't want to see 140 characters. I want to see a story.

Henry Rollins

It's hard to judge literary merit.

Nancy Pearcey

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.

Ken Follett

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.

Pope Francis

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Terry Eagleton

Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.

Terry Eagleton

What was needed was a literary theory which, while preserving the formalist bent of New Criticism, its dogged attention to literature as aesthetic object rather than social practice, would make something a good deal more systematic and 'scientific' out of all this. The answer arrived in 1957, in the shape of the Canadian Northrop Fryes mighty 'totalization' of all literary genres, Anatomy of Criticism .

Terry Eagleton

It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.

Saul Alinsky

The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.

Jack Jennings

Right now, you're not seeing radical restructuring. States are being very cautious.

Eric Hoffer

Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy.

Anand Gopal

Unlike other Taliban groups, the Haqqanis' approach to mayhem was worldly and sophisticated: they recruited Arabs, Pakistanis, even Europeans, and they were influenced by the latest in radical Islamist thought.

Will Leitch

It's not as if I'm writing anything radical on the Web site - but everyone seems to think that it is, because there's no sense of the structure that everyone is so used to.

Norman Ornstein

Radicals don't care about the institutions. They are looking for an ideological crusade. Traditions don't matter.

Patch Adams

The most radical act anyone can commit is to be happy.

Phyllis Schlafly

The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.

Calvin Coolidge

There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes.

Richard Durbin

He has the right to say what he believes, ... but all of us should be denouncing these remarks as totally irresponsible.

Steve Ball

I would sooner go back to, if you want to vote you have to come here and vote.

Bob Woodward

He made the point, which is right: I should tell him more. More is better. Sooner is better.

Elian Gonzalez

I know that you're scared. This must be frightening, but this will be over very soon and you will feel much better. I'm going to take you to Poppy.

Herman Edwards

I'm not listing him as anything right now because I don't know what the tests are. I'm not a doctor. As soon as I know, I'll let you know.

Kristen Staab

To me, the sooner the better. At least with the trial it will all be over.

Don Temeyer

It's probably too soon to say how we'll do it.

Silvan Shalom

It is very, very important to stop them, and the sooner the better,

Gregg Overman

That's a 'no-later-than' date. It could be sooner than that.

Thomas a Kempis

We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.

Mike Dunham

I think we took the play to them in the first period. We didn't give them anything, which set the tone for the game.

Ryan Murphy

Tone is everything in TV.

Samuel Beckett

I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

Vince Vaughn

I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same tone over and over again.

Vince Carter

I'm just trying to set the tone for my teammates. I'm not trying to take over the game. It's for my team. I'm just being aggressive. I think that doing that, it frees up a lot of other things.

Marya Hornbacher

...Someone speaks in soft tones to me and says I am psychotic, but it's going to be all right. I put on my hat, unperturbed, and ask for some crayons.

Paul Gauguin

On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.

Paul Gauguin

There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.

Paul Hindemith

There are only twelve tones and they need to be treated carefully.