Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Jefferson

(Academics) commit their pupils to the theatre of the world, with just taste enough of learning to be alienated from industrial pursuits, and not enough to do service in the ranks of science

Joshua Landis

This is an anti-America alliance. My guess is that the US will end up in a weaker position than it started. The war on terror has alienated the Muslim countries who now believe that America is the big bad ogre and specter of imperialism.

Clive Sinclair

At school, I never had a hold on English history, and cheder was a place run by sadistic incompetents, so I felt alienated from the Jewish part of my past.

Bible Bible

So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.

Jennifer Black

These colors don't have a universal appeal and completely alienated their core baby-boomer customer,

Elliott Abrams

George McGovern and his supporters committed what, in a two-party system, are capital crimes: they did not compromise, they took hard ideological positions, they alienated a large portion of their party's traditional supporters, and they lost - very, very badly.

E. P. Thompson

An invisible line has been crossed, and the decline in Rumsfeld?s tenure has now begun. He has gradually alienated each of his core constituencies, including the Congress, the media, the think tanks, the defense industry and now much of the officer corps.

Dean Bonham

There's no question they've alienated the city. But the risk of alienating the fans is relatively low, particularly in light of the level of success the team has enjoyed in the last few years. The upside potential is much greater than the downside potential.

Phillip Noyce

You know, you go to Hollywood and work internationally, and just the little jokes no longer make you laugh. I was alienated from my own culture.

David Hockney

Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood

Lash Fary

The perceived value of your product or service increases by associating it with top celebrities and a glitzy Hollywood event.

Billy Wilder

Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.

Elizabeth McGovern

North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A.

Edmund Wilson

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

Martin Milner

It seems the farther away we are from Hollywood, the better the ratings.

Scott Caan

A lot of kids come here from other towns, they want to be actors, and they get sucked into the whole Hollywood thing and having fun, then they're 27 before they settle down.

Michael Jackson

All of Hollywood has plastic surgery. I don't know why they point me out. The press exaggerated it. It's just my nose, you know. They want it to be everything. Just the nose isn't enough.

Tim Lynch

They're talking about turning the Hollywood studios into an organ of the government.

Bill Griffith

I always thought of Levittown as a joke.

James Schamus

It's essentially flattering, It says more about those making of the jokes than about the movie.

Ronde Barber

It's not like we're messing with some jokes at wideout here,

Matt Roth

You don't want to make him mad. He's not one for jokes or antics.

David Cross

I just often find myself getting shrill, angry and the jokes get more incredulous.

Ben Falcone

I'm not much of a joke writer.

Ricky Gervais

I can't find someone funny whom I don't like. Hitler told great jokes. I didn't find it funny at all.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.

Brad Williams

Everyone just wants to hear the exact jokes that apply to them and want to - everyone wants a perfectly crafted joke for them.

Chuck D.

It's no longer 'run to the park' on your own. Parents want to feel secure where they are and what they'll be doing.

John Jordan

It's no longer in our faces. The lynching is still being done, it's just being done covertly.

David Cardwell

It's no longer being done to be better than the other guy, but to keep up with the other guy.

Tom Stehn

It's now in its second year; it's no longer a juvenile. But this one particular whooping crane doesn't know where Aransas is. Its parents never showed it.

Diane Arbus

They are the proof of something was there and no longer is.Like a stain. And the stillness of them is boggling. You can turn away but when you come back they'll still be there looking at you.

Tom Stehn

You don't find them, but they're no longer with their parents.

Jim Barnett

This man is proven to be an ineffective extremist. We're no longer talking about one out of 435. We're talking about a very powerful position, as one of 100 in the United States Senate.

Stephanie Ferlita

I tried to tell them they accomplished a lot. Their season went on longer than a lot of other teams. And they made it through some tough times that a lot of other teams didn't have to face.

Allen Staggers

It's a little tougher because you're spanning such a distance. It takes a little longer to do.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Dean Acheson

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

David Riesman

Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

David Riesman

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.

David Duval

I've just been working hard, trying to get some good stuff to come out.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

When your vision is powerful enough, everything else falls into place: how you live your life, your workouts, what friends you choose to hang out with, how you eat, what you do for fun. Vision is purpose, and when your purpose is clear, so are your life choices. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith, there is no anxiety, no doubt - just absolute confidence.

Ben Whishaw

I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.

Arnold Palmer

I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.