Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harlan Ellison

K is for Kenghis Khan. He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

Rabindranath Tagore

Gross utility kills beauty. We now have all over the world huge production of things, huge organizations, huge administrations of empire - all obstructing the path of life. Civilization is waiting for a great consummation, for an expression of its so

Muhammad Yunus

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.

Stewart Brand

I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate. It was a pillar of local civilization.

Will Durant

In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.

Rebecca West

Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.

Rose Macaulay

what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization?

Rose Macaulay

the position of women, that sad and well-nigh universal blot on civilizations, was never far from her mind.

Tryon Edwards

No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.

Robert Trout

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

Voltaire

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

Walter Scott

The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.

Winston Churchill

If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion and decay, but in some supreme exertion for freedom, for right and for truth.

Mo Ibrahim

I never set out really to build a financial empire or to be a wealthy man.

George Goncalves

The Empire State report was strong ... and the selling pressures stayed there.

Nostradamus

The great empire will be torn from limb, the all-powerful one for more than four-hundred years: Great power given to the dark one from slaves come.

Winston Churchill

All great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.

Napoleon Bonaparte

It is neither holy, Roman or an empire.

Q-Tip

I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.

E. B. White

We think gene expression is a major part of what separates chimps and humans.

Richard Wright

Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.

Richelle Mead

When you say ‘old friend,’ are we talking, like...since the Ice Age?” “No. Of course not.” “Oh.” “It’s only been about four hundred years.” “Ah. Yes. Only four hundred.” A wry expression spread over his face. “Being with you is a continual experiment in perspective. Among other things.

Rose Kennedy

Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none.

Rick Riordan

Annabeth recognized something else in her face, too - in the hard set of her mouth and the deliberate way she raised her chin like she was ready to accept any challenge. Reyna was forcing a look of courage, while holding back a mixture of hopefulness and worry and fear that she couldn't show in public. Annabeth knew that expression. She saw it every time she looked in a mirror.

Rick Riordan

I gave her a smile that I hoped conveyed something like: Hey, you know I’m on your side. Gods are such jerks! But what can you do? Probably my expression actually conveyed: It’s not my fault! Please do not kill me!

Woodrow Wilson

Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.

Woody Allen

People make films for different reasons. For money. Or, they make them because something in them demands artistic expression. I do it because I enjoy the work.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

In the Reagan administration, a great speech was just the first step in a long process. In the Obama administration, it's the only step.

Kathleen Hanna

That's the great thing about music. You can find some '60s pop record and feel completely invigorated by it, even though it's so old.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Howard Stern

I was just at my psychiatrist and I said, 'I just got great news: We hit the 4 million mark. And I'm angry. It should be 20 million.

John Huarte

I was just as surprised by that as I was when I won the Heisman. It's a great honor and it's nice to know that even so many years later people still remember what I did in football.

Chris Eyre

I was lucky, I had a Verizon phone and it had great service all through the storm,

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

Maurice Garner

Kenyatta just had a great season for us. It might have surprised a lot of people, but not me because she has such a great work ethic.

David Johnson

I would suggest there's some sloppiness here. Neither mere negligence or gross negligence will suffice.

Zach Nelson

Due to Multi-Tenancy our gross margin by over 70%.

Steny Hoyer

inexplicable and a gross waste of taxpayer dollars.

Samuel Coleridge

I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance

Mark Gandler

I know we left some gross money on the table. I know, and so does Olli. But that's not the issue.

Henry David Thoreau

It [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessities of life.

Wayne Lewellen

It's within the grosses we were looking at from $18-20 million. Obviously, we hoped to get more, but that was the window we (anticipated).

Hani Durzy

They can say whatever they want about their gross market volume.

Tony Shiret

They have under-achieved on sales but over-achieved on gross margin gains.

Chris Coste

Kirby was the first name on everyone's list. That smile and that magnetic personality. He was a huge role model for so many people in that area. He was a huge influence in the way that I hit.

Bud Keene

Kelly really pushed the limits of women's riding by going huge and super technical.

Doc Scheppler

Just returning to the team was a huge lift for us.

Ben Howland

Josh Shipp was huge tonight. I mean, having not played 13 weeks, for him to do what he did tonight was just miraculous.

David Cope

I think it's a huge win on a number of fronts,

Brian Fanelli

I think it's a huge accomplishment for her.

Brian Rolston

He was awesome. Third period, he made save after save after save. It's not surprising, but it was huge to get the win for him.

Mike Szabo

He just stepped up and made a play. That was a huge play.

Bobby Gonzalez

He just has that chip-on-the-shoulder toughness, like a riverboat gambler. He's going for it. He's got huge, huge heart. You're never out of trouble with him.

Carolyn Sime

We're on a different path with the same goal.

Condoleezza Rice

unfortunately on a path right now where relations are not improving, but are worsening.

Anton LaVey

Be as a lion in the path. Be dangerous even in defeat.

Frank Black

I did start down that path some time ago,

Richelle Mead

You aren't afraid of throwing yourself in the path of danger, but you're terrified of letting anyone in.

Richard Bach

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

Richard Rohr

there is no path to peace, but peace itself is the path.

Sarah Lewis

Masters are not experts because they take a subject to its conceptual end. They are masters because they realize that there isn't one. On utterly smooth ground, the path from aim to attainment is in the permanent future.

Sara Shepard

The obstacle is the path.

Dana Brunetti

The production value of YouTube videos is not there.

Peter Fincham

In-house production must be nourished, must be supported.

Jessy Schram

You know that you're part of a Spielberg production when you've got some aliens involved, but you really know when you're sitting there at a table read, and they say, 'Steven really wanted it this way.'

John le Carre

There was an ITV television production of the second novel I wrote, called 'Murder of Quality.' It was a little murder story set in a public school - I'd once taught at Eton, and I used that stuff.

Lance Briggs

It's always production over technique, but if you're going to come out of your technique, make the play. If you don't make the play, it's all on you.

Alex Schott

It's an important project. Everyone will be watching and waiting to see how production goes.

Frank Robinson

We are not getting the production offensively for what we need to be successful.

Rebecca Watson

All safety systems worked to successfully shut down production on the OCS (Outer Continental Shelf) platforms,

Robert Porter

It's a solid result in terms of our production figures.

Ralph Lauren

It's sport utility done in a dressed-up way,

Nathan Frohling

We've been waiting 10 years for this moment.

Bob Williams

I think we're still waiting for that to emerge.

Mike Trapasso

I think a lot of (pollsters) are waiting to see what we do this week.

Ann Gard

I was waiting for it. At that time, telegrams were so prominent.

Dr. Tsou

I have been waiting 25 years for this time.

Steve Adams

I don't know what's in it (investigative file). I'm waiting to see.

Sol Campbell

I am fit, I am well and I am back. Now I am just waiting for my chance.

Ibrahim Gambari

He has said what he wanted and is waiting for a response.

Richard Dawkins

I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one.