Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Addison

Jesters do often prove prophets.

George Andrew Olah

During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.

James Russell Lowell

[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.

Northrop Frye

To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

Northrop Frye

Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic.

Northrop Frye

I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is going on in what he reads: The most conscientous student will be continually misconstruing the implications, even the meaning.

Northrop Frye

Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.

Norman Maclean

...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.

Lynne Black

Our position right now is that this is not an appropriate program and population to put in a heavily populated two-square-mile village.

Kelley Armstrong

A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.

Niccolo Machiavelli

When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere... the world will purge itself in one or another of these three ways (floods, plague and famine)

Garrett Hardin

The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.

Marc Lumpkin

It's a way to go after another segment of the population that wants to sign up for satellite-TV service but hasn't had a way to do it.

Jared Diamond

People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!

Kelly Wood

The population is healthy, but it's not like we've got a lot of them.

Annalee Newitz

Survivor species tend to have huge populations, so they can afford to lose many individuals and still survive as a species. They also tend to be small. If you're small, you need less food - which is great in a situation where famine is everywhere.

Allen Ginsberg

It's time we did something to assert ourselves. After all, we do comprise 10% of the population.

Barbara Jones

We had been talking about doing more projects together.

David Leslie

We've had to set a workshop up; we've had to equip the workshop and everything else. But all that equipment is there now and whatever projects they want to use it for in the future.

Abraham Maslow

Every person is, in part, 'his own project' and makes himself.

Stanley Tucci

And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.

Evan Glodell

I hope I don't have to act in one of my own projects again.

Martin Parr

By default, I am a travel photographer. I work on a combination of commissions and personal projects that take me around the world.

Jennifer Connelly

I'm so happy in the projects that I'm able to make, to be involved in projects like this. This isn't always where it was at for me, I started working when I was a kid. I'm just a different person now, I'm 30. I started working when I was 11 and it's a different ballgame.

Chris Anderson

We do wish to try to have as many different students' projects shown as possible.

Brad Hagen

We wouldn't be able to do as many projects as quickly.