Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Beauprez

Obliging elected Democrats willingly pander to the radical lefties who elevated them to their throne.

Charles Churchill

Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.

Christopher Love

I would rather be a preacher in a pulpit than a prince on a throne

Vaclav Havel

Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Pants get shiny even on a throne.

John Milton

Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

Honore de Balzac

La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne.

Francis Quarles

Diogenes found more rest in his tub than Alexander on his throne.

Napoleon Bonaparte

An empty throne always tempts me.

Ben Jonson

The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.

Aldous Huxley

The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.

David Hare

In oratory the will must predominate.

Thomas Jefferson

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.

Thomas Carlyle

The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.

Thomas B. Macaulay

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

George Saintsbury

Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself.

Adam Savage

This is the point in the show where we say, 'Oh, what else do we have in the van that's flammable?'

Allama Iqbal

Since love first made the breast an instrumentOf fierce lamenting, by its flame my heartWas molten to a mirror, like a roseI pluck my breast apart, that I may hangThis mirror in your sightGaze you therein.

Irwin Shaw

I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.

Matt Thornton

I respect what he's done in this game. He's a great guy. You see him as being so fierce and intense, but when you talk to him one-on-one, you see what a great guy he is. He said this is his way to give back to the game, his way to give back to other players. It was something that superstars in his day, who he watched and admired, did for him.

Colin Trevorrow

Michael Giacchino is a fiercely creative musical mind and a true 'Jurassic Park' fan.

John Severance

Loli is one of the most fierce competitors that I have had to work with,

James Ellroy

Tell me anything. Tell me everything. Revoke our time apart. Love me fierce in danger.

Christian Louboutin

I like my customer to be fierce.

Carol Bartz

Google is a fierce competitor. I wish I was worth a bazillion dollars; that would be really nice. They're a fierce competitor, and they're very good in search. They're very good with their global map thing.