Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Postrel

Loft living is the antithesis of suburban domesticity, if only because the open spaces don't easily accommodate family life. Lofts also offer residents the opportunity - and responsibility - to structure their own space to reflect what's important to them.

Jerry Angelo

When we drafted Mike we were in a different scheme. We were the antithesis of what we are now. Now is that to exonerate him not playing because of the scheme? No. Part of it, he needed to get better at certain things, but he didn't. He's got the tools. We got into the third year and we didn't see a big advance.

Michael Wadleigh

Woodstock was the antithesis of what the music industry turned into. And if anyone tries to tie another Woodstock festival to an obnoxious sponsor, I'll be out protesting again.

Sam Shepard

I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.

Aaron Copland

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

Sean Parker

I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that you've made a billion dollars, you've probably become uncool.

Pinball Clemons

It is my desire (for him) to get two games rest. It is the antithesis of his desire. I won the first round. I don't know if I can win the second round. He's just going to wear me out.

Jonathan Shapiro

I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for.

Trent Reznor

one that was the antithesis of 'The Fragile,' which was complex. Songs flowed into each other, and it was layered. This record I wanted to be as stripped down as possible. I wanted it to be more real, more organic, not overly fixed or chopped up. At the end of the day, it reminds me of 'Pretty Hate Machine.'

George Allen

In some ways, September 11, 2001, seems a long time ago. Yet we have done so much in only a few years, and we will continue to do so in the future, to prevent such attacks on America.

Scott Long

The police are using brutal harassment and detention without charge to clear transgender people off the streets. These attacks reflect a law enforcement system that is unchecked and operating outside the law.

Andrew Kohut

The overall finding of public opinion since the September 11 attacks is that the American public is willing to see the rules bent a little bit in the war on terrorism.

Noah Feldman

Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war 'cool.' As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage.

Scott Stossel

As recently as 1979, neither panic attacks nor panic disorder officially existed.

Silvan Shalom

We have the responsibility to protect our people and that's why we're building this fence. We've suffered from 19,000 terrorist attacks during the last three years.

Pauline Neville-Jones

We owe it to the victims of the suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 to find out how the attacks happened and to learn the lessons that will spare lives in the future.

Mikko Hypponen

The vast majority of the online crime cases, we don't even know which continent the attacks are coming from. And even if we are able to find online criminals, quite often there is no outcome. The local police don't act, or if they do, there's not enough evidence, or for some reason we can't take them down.

Jay McInerney

Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.

William Cullen Bryant

Wild was the day; the wintry sea Moaned sadly on New England's strand, When first the thoughtful and the free, Our fathers, trod the desert land.

Viggo Mortensen

I have never been in a natural place and felt that was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

Sorin Cerin

There is no greater desert than that of life.

Thomas B. Macaulay

He . . . felt towards those whom he had deserted that peculiar malignity which has, in all ages, been characteristic of apostates.

Margaret Atwood

In the desert there is no sign that says, Thou shalt not eat stones.

Baltasar Gracian

There is no desert like being friendless.

Arthur Symons

The desert of virginity Aches in the hotness of her mouth.

Benito Mussolini

I am not a collector of deserts!

Suzanne Somers

I was actually going to be a chef before I got sidetracked. I used to make deserts for restaurants as a young teenage mother to make money.

Warren R. Austin

To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.

Don Miguel Ruiz

When we respect everybody around us, we are in peace with everybody around us.

Ariel Sharon

The peace plan outlined in the president's speech is a reasonable, pragmatic and practicable one.

Bikram Choudhury

Nothing in the world can take my peace away from me.

John C. Calhoun

War may be made by one party, but it requires two to make peace.

C. S. Lewis

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

Cecelia Ahern

Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Benjamin Rush

As the War Office of the United States was established in a time of peace, it is equally reasonable that a Peace Office should be established in a time of War.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.