Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Bolitho

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

William Makepeace Thackeray

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

Shohreh Aghdashloo

Cinema is a reflection of its own society.

James Russell Lowell

The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.

Eric Hoffer

The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led.

James F. Cooper

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

Keith Waterhouse

Should not the Society of Indexers be know as Indexers, Society of, The?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society does not love its unmaskers.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

Richard Dawkins

Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing to add to that knowledge, as we still know nothing about the creation of that intelligence.

Russell Banks

Nobody does anything for one reason.

Russell Brand

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.

William Wycherley

Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.

Sarah Silverman

I have lows, you know, everybody does ... but I kind of know how to handle it. I like to let myself wallow in it. I enforce it with terribly sad music, and it kind of pushes me through to the other side eventually, and I always know it's going to pass.

Vladimir Lenin

He who does not work shall not eat

Ursula K. Le Guin

One of the things [fiction] does is lead you to recognize what you did not know before.

Robert Sternberg

Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success.