Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoni Tapies

I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values.

Bill Vaughan

A lot of Americans have some view of the Constitution as just this thing that was handed down [intact]. But it really was the result of months and months of wrangling and disputation and ultimately compromise. That's where the brilliance of the American system is -- it's always been built on compromise.

Bill Vaughan

In my view there are basically two types of weddings. There is the wedding that is based on law, and there is the wedding that is based on Christ and based on grace. We felt that those who have been married by the law, they would like to have that special privilege and benefit by being married by the church.

Bertrand Russell

But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely because it is not human.

Baz Luhrmann

I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.

Barry Lopez

The cold view to take of our future is that we are therefore headed for extinction in a universe of impersonal chemical, physical, and biological laws. A more productive, certainly more engaging view, is that we have the intelligence to grasp what is happening, the composure not to be intimidated by its complexity, and the courage to take steps that may bear no fruit in our lifetimes.

B. F. Skinner

In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore be held responsible for what he does and justly punished if he offends. That view, together with its associated practices, must be re-examined when a scientific analysis reveals unsuspected controlling relations between behavior and environment.

David Brooks

The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born.

David McCullough

Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

Paul Burns

We have the same sun and soil as Amador and much of El Dorado.

Earl Scruggs

My music came up from the soil of North Carolina,

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.

Michael Donovan

Some of the soil has to go; some can be spread around the site.

Alexander Pope

Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

Pat Buchanan

Or will it take some cataclysmic act of violence on U.S. soil to finally awaken our gamesmen to the costs of global hegemony?

Margaret Atwood

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

All soils are not fertile.

James Joyce

Her companionship was like a warm soil about an exotic.

Chris Evert

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

Ashley Tisdale

I never really looked up to celebrities when I was young.

Anthony Swofford

It occured to me that we will never be young again.

B. B. King

I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.

Martin Parr

I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.

Yingluck Shinawatra

One thing that I can't avoid the fact, because I am Thaksin's youngest sister.

Diane von Furstenberg

When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.

Dhirubhai Ambani

The success of the young entrepreneur will be the key to India's transformation in the new millennium.

Chad Harbach

Other things awaited. It was good to be young and to know it for once. So much unfolding to do.