Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aubrey McClendon

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

Albert Einstein

If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.

Andy Rooney

Let's face it, though, anything that's apt to happen to an appliance like a blender isn't covered by the warranty anyway, so I never send them in. If it breaks, I'll buy a new one. That's the American way.

Simone Weil

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

Sam Levenson

I'm gonna put all my money into taxes. They're sure to go up.

P. J. O'Rourke

We are a nation that worships speed and power. And for good reason. Without power we would still be part of England and everybody would be out of work... Bicycles are too slow and impuissant for a nation like ours. They belong in Czechoslovakia.

Lance Morrow

The jumbo jet is the airborne equivalent of the interstate highway...One might as well be stuffed into a cartridge and shot through a pneumatic tube, like interoffice mail.

H. L. Mencken

The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus homo boobiensis...surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies.

Oscar Wilde

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

Charles Dickens

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

Charles Caleb Colton

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than in maintaining them. As to reverses, no general cart presume to say that he may not be defeated; but he can, and ought to say, that he will not be surprised.

Charles Caleb Colton

Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.

Charles Spurgeon

To-morrow even may bring the final reckoning.

Charles Spurgeon

We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives.

Alan Watts

If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.

Alan Moore

While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.

Alan Bennett

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

Paul Tagliabue

This decision is clearly an indication of the tremendous support the Chiefs have had from their fans in this area, and also the role of Lamar Hunt in the creation of the NFL today and the history of professional football.

James Daugherty

It's not how many times it's being used, ... It's that is it needed. All of the fire chiefs jobs are to be ready to protect, whether it be the one-story or the high rise.

Quentin Jammer

This is this week's streak. But it's really a Chiefs team in the way of us making the playoffs. A roadblock we need to move out of the way.

Robin Pemberton

There's a lot out there for the crew chiefs to go for out there (money, trophies). They'll never stop doing it (cheating) and we'll have to work just as hard to stop it.

Marty Schottenheimer

We did not lose today. We got beat. We're obviously disappointed. This was a difficult game, and the Chiefs did everything they needed to in order to win.

Jamal Lewis

We really knocked the snot -- for lack of a better word -- out of each other on Friday,'' Chiefs defensive end Eric Hicks said.

Douglas Leone

A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets.

Thomas Keating

The chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separated from God.

Michele Bachmann

My ability to function effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander-in-chief.