Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Kelly

You know you're fat when you use a piece of a bread as a napkin.

Studs Terkel

Work is a search for daily meaning as well as for daily bread.

Michael Pollan

Rule No.37 The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead.

Paul Johnson

Margaret Thatcher had more impact on the world than any woman ruler since Catherine the Great of Russia. Not only did she turn around - decisively - the British economy in the 1980s, she also saw her methods copied in more than 50 countries.

Vic Toews

We need to take a lesson, not simply from the Americans, but from Europeans and others including the British who have taken some pretty important steps - constitutionally sound steps, but important steps - in dealing with organized crime.

Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

Denmark as a country has always looked up to England. I've always felt that British actors are fantastic. There's a strong theatre tradition in your country, and that is reflected in TV and film as well. We've always thought that for crime series, you were the masters, and the general feeling the Danes have of British drama is that it's excellent.

Mark Billingham

Too much research can be the writer's enemy. You can spend days on end in the British Library or prowling the streets with a Dictaphone, and it's easy to convince yourself that you're working hard. Often, it can be an excuse not to work; a classic displacement activity.

Milton Friedman

A crackpot theory. Instead of saying labor's exploited, as Marx did, Kelso says capital's exploited. It's worse than Marx. It's Marx stood on its head.

Rumi

Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. That is within your power.

Sri Aurobindo

For the powers of our mind, life, and body are bound to their own limitations, and however high they may rise or however widely expand, they cannot rise beyond them. But still, mental man can open to what is beyond him and call down a Supramental Light, Truth, and Power to work in him and do what the mind cannot do. If mind cannot by effort become what is beyond mind, Supermind can descend and transform mind into its own substance.

Thuy Trang

Almost everything I tried out for I pretty much got. I landed Power Rangers, and the rest is history.

Soulja Boy

Words are powerful. When I make mistakes I just try to come back and clarify what I meant.

Thomas B. Macaulay

A perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque; yet he must control it so absolutely as to content himself with the materials which he finds, and to refrain from supplying deficiencies by additions of his own. He must be a profound and ingenious reasoner; yet he must possess sufficient self-command to abstain from casting his facts in the mould of his hypothesis.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Power, safely defied, touches its downfall.

Thomas Hobbes

The reputation of power IS power.

Thomas Hobbes

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Bobby Jones

During the season on Saturdays, I usually sleep in until about 1.

John Shelby Spong

It's the 21st century, and somebody has to rise from within this faith tradition and retranslate it for the post-modern world. The Earth is not the center of the universe, therefore, God is not a being who lives above the sky, who splits the Red Sea from time to time, or creates a miracle, or whatever.

Homer

To-morrow we embark upon the boundless sea.

Roger Mudd

The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and 80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.

Robin McKinley

And if my choice is to sit graciously in my best robes and accept the inevitable or to bail a sea with a bucket, give me the bucket.

Whoopi Goldberg

When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.

Zane Grey

Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.

Washington Irving

Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England

William C. Bryant

Yet will that beauteous image make The dreary sea less drear And thy remembered smile will wake The hope that tramples fear

Conrad Aiken

The truth--a hideous spectacle!

Sydney J. Harris

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

Thomas Jefferson

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Mason Cooley

Disillusionment is not truth.

Mason Cooley

Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.

Mason Cooley

Truth is a necessary phantom.

Mason Cooley

Birth dates and bathroom scales tell more truth than I want to know.

Margaret Oliphant

Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.

Michel de Montaigne

I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.

Rajneesh

Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.

Isaac Asimov

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

David Shuster

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.