Famous Quotes & Sayings

LeRoy Neiman

'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself.

Tim Jackson

Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us.

Margaret Drabble

Affluence was, quite simply, a question of texture ... The threadbare carpets of infancy, the coconut matting, the ill-laid linoleum, the utility furniture ... had all spoken of a life too near the bones of subsistence, too little padded, too severely worn.

Ed Kinney

Affluence plays a big factor today. Lifestyle expectations have risen, and the premium market is becoming very attractive.

Charles Jencks

The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.

Samuel Johnson

There are minds which easily sink into submission, that look on grandeur with undistinguishing reverence, and discover no defect where there is elevation of rank and affluence of riches

Dennis Prager

For the Left, affluence is won, not earned.

Gary Snyder

True affluence is not needing anything.

Erich Fromm

The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.

Ivan Turgenev

To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice you feel in yourself

Kent Beck

I think it's a combination of technical and social factors that leads to all the defects in deployed software.

Honore de

They must have the defects of their qualities.

Saul Kripke

It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.

Joseph Brooks

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants--more than anything else--to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are--and have always been.

Sathya Baba

What is offered to GOD is totally free from all defects and imperfections.

Michael Davidson

You get the pretty images due to the light hitting the defects in the materials.

Rae Tyson

We have not determined whether or not there is a defect in the first place,

Kristen Kinley

We have not determined at this time that there is a defect with the switch, but for reasons we still do not understand the switch is failing ... and we are trying to understand why.

Charles Caleb Colton

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.

Charles Dickens

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

Alan Arkin

But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things.

Alan Alda

Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries

Chogyam Trungpa

The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim the goodness and dignity of human life, without either hesitation or arrogance. Then magic can descend onto our existence.

Edward Jenner

While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities [smallpox], blended with the fond hope of enjoying independence and domestic peace and happiness, was often so excessive that, in pursuing my favourite subject among the meadows, I have sometimes found myself in a kind of reverie.

Edith Wharton

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

David Hilbert

[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.

David Hume

For, besides, that many persons find too sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this, I say, the motive of blind despair can never reasonably have place in the sciences; since, however unsuccessful former attempts may have proved, there is still room to hope, that the industry, good fortune, or improved sagacity of succeeding generations may reach discoveries unknown to former ages.

Tony Vis

We're mentally tough and we were not going to go away. We got down 10 and could have easily folded the tent on the big stage. The kids just kept fighting and plugging away and got us back into that thing. They put us in a great position at halftime.

David Buck

Unless it comes down really hard, it'll be very easy to manage. It'll be easily treatable with salt.

Ken Dorsey

It's easily one of the most exciting games I've ever played in.

Tim Smith

All of our flights in and out of New Orleans are canceled through noon (today). And that could easily get pushed into later in the week.

Atharva Veda

A man beaming with enthusiasm naturally accomplishes his works easily and quickly.

Justin Daley

A lot of students are intimidated to hold hands with their same-sex partner, whoever that might be. So, those students who want to express themselves in that way are easily able to do so.

Dusty Baker

A lot of times, guys get older and they're so financially secure and they have records and stuff, you could easily lose a little competitive desire. But he hasn't lost any.

Pam Crawford

This can't happen anymore. It easily could have been my grand-daughter.

Daniel Kammen

This is actually a switch we could make very easily and very quickly.

William Garay

We know about where they are. They were probably at a higher elevation then the water was.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RANK, n. Relative elevation in the scale of human worth.

Susan Vreeland

Each time we enter imaginatively into the life of another, it's a small step upwards in the elevation of the human race.

Jitin Prasada

Narendra Modi is a bubble. After elevation in his party, his first test was the Karnataka election. He failed miserably in that.

Merlin Lahm

Kilimanjaro is not very technical and doesn't require any ropes. It's just the elevation that's the issue.

Bill Cosby

I see Obama as Sisyphus in the first four years. And nobody would speak about the size of the rock, or the elevation of the hill. All you hear people talk about is what he didn't do.

Charles de Gaulle

The sword is the axis of the world, and grandeur is indivisible.

Ann Druyan

The Universe revealed by science is one of far more awesome grandeur than any religion has ever posited.

Chris Kaman

You know what grandeur is? It's awesome.

Charles Darwin

There is Grandeur in this view of life,

Michael Sands

We want our product to stick in the minds of consumers.

Nate Corddry

When you work at 'The Daily Show,' you have to give 100 percent, or you're gone. The competitiveness and the minds that work in those offices are incredible.

Sandy Miller

As we get older our minds become more fuddled. (Having so many plans) doesn't help.

Bill Ryan

It seems like we had a mindset of ?we're the underdog, let's go for broke.' We shot without apprehension.

Haruo Shimada

It's a simple question, and that question has penetrated the minds of voters.

Adam Baker

It's on everybody's minds right now. It's all anybody's thinking about.

Henry Newbolt

The work of the world must still be done, and minds are many though truth be one.

Dambisa Moyo

The western mindset erroneously equates a political system of multi-party democracy with high-quality institutions... the two are not synonymous.

Isaiah Kacyvenski

We all wanted to have a song to get our minds right to run down the field.

Jason Shelton

It's a situation where we'll have to play very well just to stay in the game. There's a reason why Union is ranked so high. They're very, very good.

Jimmy Stewart

It ranks right up there at the top,

Sam Young

They're a nationally ranked team, just like us.

Jerome Bettis

It was a unique game. It ranks up there. It was crazy.

Bill Richards

Northwestern is always very good. They are ranked 51st in the nation.

Mark Langan

This ranks up there with the worst I've seen. There (were) feces throughout the house, urine-stained carpets, urine-stained sheets, trash throughout the house.

Bill Castle

We've got a bulls-eye on us. I think we're ranked because of tradition and our past. Everyone comes after you.

Warrick Dunn

You feel like you're underappreciated and undervalued all the time. Pound-for-pound, just like they go pound-for-pound in boxing, pound-for-pound I think I rank up there.

Nathan Hedgecock

There's no intimidation -- none. A rank is just a rank.

Deborah Kerr

[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

Billy Sunday

Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.

Benjamin Franklin

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

Robert Ward

It's the little things that make up the richest part of the tapestry of our lives.

Diana Ross

My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.

Daniel Gilbert

Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.

Charles Spurgeon

Gospel riches are sent to remove our wretchedness, and mercy to remove our misery.

Eleanora Duse

I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Riches without faith are the greatest poverty.

Michael Strahan

They don't tell you how to be on TV - they put the camera on you, and they turn it on, and you sink or swim.

J. Taylor

It was sentimental and exciting. It was starting to sink in. I wanted to slow things down a bit.

Bret Easton Ellis

History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.

Lorrie Moore

It was not miserable - often I did not miss her at all. But there was sometimes a quick, sinking ache when I walked in the door and saw she was not there. Twice, however, I'd felt the same sinking feeling when she was.

Ivan Turgenev

Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at the pit of my stomach and my abdomen would be assailed by a melancholy, cold shivering. In the end I couldn't abide such happiness and ran away.

Kirsten Prout

There's nothing better than sinking into my feather pillows after a hard day's work.

Jordan Foreman

I mean, it won't really sink in for a while.

Johannes Tauler

Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness.

Robyn Davidson

I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.