Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Johnson

So that will take a little bloom off.

Pat Schroeder

I would say this year the bloom is definitely off the rose.

Vince Farrell

I think the bloom is off the rose of the very, very richly priced 'new economy' stocks. Many of these are terrific companies, many will be here a few years from now. But I question the prices that they all got to.

John Palfrey

The bloom is off the rose for the Internet industry. There is a sense that American companies have a higher obligation than has been practiced in China in recent years.

Stephan Pastis

I want to shake things up like Bloom County did, ... When I was a kid I loved Calvin and I loved Far Side and I loved Bloom County. And I loved them because they took risks. You never knew what you were going to see that day. And there's not a lot of strips that do that now.

Brian Eno

Culture is everything you don't have to do.

Aristotle

Talent is culture with insolence.

Arlen Specter

embedded deep in the culture of the country.

Mario Batali

English food in the last 30 years has come to grips with English products, their dairy culture and their cheeses and their creams and their seafood.

Georgia Perez

Eagles are very important to me and my culture.

Alex D. Linz

Every culture loves scatological humour. That's always a favourite.

E. O. Wilson

Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture.

Chuck Palahniuk

We're the culture that cried wolf.

Andrew Cohen

We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.

John Key

I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.

Jeff Bonde

She's always had a lot of natural speed. We're still trying to rate her.

Ross Lynch

I don't really think of myself as a heartthrob. I've got a lot of brothers, and there's a natural competitiveness between us when it comes to girls. If I said something about being a heartthrob, then they would bring me straight back down to earth!

Michelle Turner

I didn't think homosexuality should be taught as something that is natural or the same as heterosexuality.

Meseret Defar

My speed is natural and I have been training very hard.

Carrie Brownstein

I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty.

Tony McCoy

I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.

Mike Greene

Well, if you have a goalie like Colin, it's a natural choice. We don't plan on high-scoring games. It's just not what we plan to do.

Homaro Cantu

Most Americans live on a diet that includes processed fare that is neither fresh nor natural.

Stephen King

It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters.

Plato

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

Mark Twain

We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing at all about the habits of the oyster. It seems almost certain that we have been choosing the wrong time for studying the oyster.

Rudy Clay

I think Marquette Park is one of our pearls in an oyster that we need to shine up.

Hannah Arendt

No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable.

John Bunyan

If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.

Agatha Christie

a lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an oyster all their lives seem positively to relish causing trouble when they themselves shall be comfortably dead.