Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denise Monteiro

We don't know why they were fleeing New York.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

David Eagleman

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

Jeff Goodell

Without electrons, there is no Google. And without clean electrons, there will be no Google customers, since we'll all be too busy fleeing from rising seas, droughts, and disease.

Sean Penn

My greatest interest in it was certainly not to avoid those things that were going to be controversial about the family but the interest I had in the story was predominantly what he was pursuing and not as much what he was fleeing.

Umberto Eco

You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another. You cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple.

Karl Kraus

Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.

Carroll O'Connor

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

Angela Carter

Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

Dario Fo

It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.

Katherine Hough

This has a lot of satire in it.

Chris Rock

Kennedy didn't beat Nixon. Satire beat Nixon.

P. J. O'Rourke

Satire doesn't effect change.

Mark Lisanti

It's satire it's my own twisted sense of humor, The Wizard of Oz.

Isaac Watts

Satirists do expose their own ill nature.

G. H. Hardy

There's a lot of satire in Mardi Gras. We also take shots at ourselves. We may be down but we're not out.

Isobelle Carmody

The best books arise from some ultimate question in the author.

Ernest Walton

As the size of cyclotrons increases and faster particles are produced, a difficulty arises due to the relativistic increase of mass of the particle.

Zhang Qi

The abolishment could lead to a rise in coal prices immediately. Furthermore, increases may also arise in power tariff as a result of the country's price pass-through system.

Mercedes Pascual

We can think of changes to the oceans locally, but in terms of human health we have to look globally. This is a global connection. As we change ocean properties through climate change, remote consequences are likely to arise ? we may not even know what they are yet.

Marquis de Lafayette

I experience for the American officers and soldiers that friendship which arises from having shared with them for a length of time dangers, sufferings, and both good and evil fortune.

Patrick O'Brian

Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.

Ray Comfort

According to the Law of Biogenesis, life arises only from preexisting life.

Paramahansa Yogananda

When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves of feeling (chitta), and the mental restlessness that arises therefrom, through the application of techniques that reinstate the controlling power of the untrammeled superconsciousness of the soul.

Toba Beta

Time is an illusion that arises from the educated perception of human senses and mind to the changes that happened. Stop the changes, or terminate the educated perception, then time will cease to exist.