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.

Thomas Mann

Speech is civilization itself.

Stephen Gardiner

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.

Stephen Gardiner

The Industrial Revolution was another one of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.

Stephen Fry

Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless stalemate.

Toni Morrison

Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission. No committee decides who may enter, no crisis of body or spirit must accompany the entrant. No tuition is charged, no oath sworn, no visa demanded. Of the monuments humans build for themselves, very few say - touch me, use me, my hush is not indifference, my space is not barrier. If I inspire awe, it is because I am in awe of you and the possibilities that dwell in you.

S. J. Perelman

There is such a thing as too much couth.

Thomas B. Macaulay

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

Vanna White

I'm really just a normal person.

Val Kilmer

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

Rupert Grint

I've tried to have a really normal life, and I have because my family treats me normal, and my friends treat me just the same.

Shawn Johnson

My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal.

Steven Morrissey

I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living.

Michael Ian Black

I can be a snarky Asshole, or I can be sort of mentally impaired. It's very hard for me to just be normal human being.

Matt Ruane

But this is a normal pullback after the run up we've seen in October. I wouldn't read too much into it.

Pete Carroll

If it's going to happen, I want it to be normal and comfortable. I don't want it to be something that's out of the ordinary and they don't know how to respond to.

Drea De Matteo

I get super bored playing bland, normal girls.

Ernie Roberson

These new registrants are everywhere; they're spread all over the state.

Winston Churchill

Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.

John Vaji

If you let them get up on you, they?re going to spread you out.

Allen Tate

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

Mark Johnson

It's been unbelievable. We couldn't have written a better script.

John Drinkwater

The written word is everything.

Van Morrison

I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.