Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jalal Talabani

I think the majority (of all Iraqis) will vote yes,

Alex Jones

The majority of world stock markets are now owned by the Arabs.

Phil Goff

It is not within the power of the president to remove the prime minister other than on the vote of a majority of the house,

Robert Ringer

A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability.

Samuel Johnson

The majority of a society is the true definition of the public.

Walter Lippmann

The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

Chris Patten

The new administration must be broad-based with a mandate to speak for a majority of the people of Afghanistan,

Jodi Picoult

I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.

Lev Grossman

The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are destined to be forgotten.

Richelle Mead

Do you know anything about silent films?" "Sure," I said. "The first ones were developed in the late nineteenth century and sometimes had live musical accompaniment, though it wasn't until the 1920s that sound became truly incorporated into films, eventually making silent ones obsolete in cinema.

Robert Evans

It has been said that a friend is somebody with whom it is possible to be silent.

Julie Burchill

The 'g' is silent - the only thing about her that is.

Elizabeth I

I observe and remain silent.

Helena Christensen

When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.

Serge Daney

Garrel has succeeded in filming something we have never seen before: the faces of actors in silent films during those moments when the black intertitles, with their paltry, illuminated words, filled the screen.

Gaspard Ulliel

I studied cinema at the university so I had a very classical approach to it. I studied all those silent films, and then the films from the 1940's, the Nouvelle Vague, the late Hollywood films. Now I realize, as a young actor, that it's one of my duties to actually be aware of what is today's industry and today's next big directors.

Franz Kafka

I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person.

Ingrid Newkirk

All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

William McDonough

We realized we don't have an invention, that's why we gave it away.

William McDonough

This idea that things are designed to go back to nature or industry for ever which is our articulation of these two metabolisms are actually a discovery not an invention.

Richard Courant

Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention.

Walter Scott

Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.

Jonathan Safran Foer

In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that.

Eli Whitney

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor,

Gustav Mahler

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

Ernest Hemingway

His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.

Jeff Bezos

Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.