Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Hirsch

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.

Salman Rushdie

The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

Robert M. Pirsig

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

Robin McKinley

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on.

W. Somerset Maugham

The end of culture is right living

Renée Arrington

If you find that you have several disengaged workers, that might be symptomatic of your culture.

Beppe Severgnini

If you are the owner of a factory employing 500 people, on Monday you talk to any of them about soccer, and that's completely unifying. Italy doesn't have very much in terms of national culture like that. ... You have Hollywood and all the stars, we don't have anything remotely (like that). Soccer compensates.

Stephen Harper

Can the prime minister tell us why this Liberal culture of waste and scandal is only stopped once it is actually exposed publicly?

Reese Witherspoon

I'm having a great time playing Becky, ... She's a world away from Elle Woods and for me it's a great departure. It was a natural decision for me to get as far away from American pop culture as I could.

David Hawkins

He's a great teacher. He's doing a great job preparing us for college. He's exposed us to different types of tests (including those in which students identify specimens from microscopes).

Gregory Stone

A lot of small ponds that were isolated from the Gulf are now exchanging waters with the Gulf, ... lots of sand removal leaving the marsh exposed to the Gulf.

Brian Graden

The number of people exposed to videos under our umbrella is greater than it's ever been, We view the two as very tethered together.

Scott Harris

The number means nothing if you don't know what the exposure is. If you're not exposed to something, it can't hurt you.

Leslie Cockburn

Journalism, for me, has always been a calling. There are things that must be exposed to the light, truths that must be uncovered, stories worth risking your life for.

Esperanza Spalding

If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if it spoke to you? If you get exposed to it enough, you might find a taste for it.

Li Datong

Apparently, we wrote too many investigative stories that exposed official corruption. The Party didn't like it.

Kelly Parisi

This is not just a career-development day. Considering that the majority of our workforce is involved in a small business, it's important that girls be exposed to a wide range of jobs, and learn that small-business owners wear lots of different hats.

Doug Snyder

That's why we played this tournament: to learn. I said going in that we could come out of this tournament 0-2, but we got a split and we can learn from some of the things Linden exposed in our game tonight.

Bob Davis

It's like liberal and puritanical at the same time.

Stephen Harper

a substantial strengthening of the Liberal Party of Quebec.

Bill Maher

Every time [Rand Paul] opens his mouth, it gets a little crazier. Today he angrily demanded that the liberal media stop quoting him in context.

Rudy Giuliani

a vote for the most liberal member of the United States Senate.

Francis Parker Yockey

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

Maajid Nawaz

My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.

P. J. O'Rourke

Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.

Muriel Humphrey

There's something I've been wanting to say for a long time. I'm a liberal, and I'm proud of it. In fact, I was probably a little more liberal than Hubert was. I just wanted to say that.

Michel Lu

If necessary we will make proposals to the minister or even the president.

Suranand Vejjajiva

When the prime minister sold his shares, people didn't understand it was a private matter. We were quite off-message at first.

Francis Atterbury

The priesthood hath in all nations, and all religions, been held highly venerable.

Will Ferrell

Whom does the prime minister prefer? Tinky Winkey, Dipsy, Po, or La-La?

Bel Powley

I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.

Farooq Abdullah

I want to become foreign minister of India one day and then President of India.

Nicola Sturgeon

One of Ed Miliband's shadow ministers has said he would never vote for the renewal of Trident.

Marwan Kanafani

We have been pushed to this situation by the positions of Prime Minister Netanyahu.

Kamisese Mara

I have never been bribed as a Prime Minister.

Mahatma Gandhi

3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, but 9 is not prime; -in this incarnation.

Dan Zimmerman

This is the prime time right now. They're there.

Douglas Hurd

If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.

Rita Moreno

I'm 81 and I'm in the prime of my life.

Tony Blair

I'm the f***ing Prime Minister!

Tsutomu Takebe

It is a private visit and I would like to respect the Prime Minister's visit to the shrine,

Uzi Landau

We must not give in to the prime minister's regime of intimidation.

Mike Pence

It's time to save the U.N. from its own scandals and mismanagement. It's time for U.N. Reform with teeth

William Shakespeare

No particular scandal one can touch but it confounds the breather.

Robert Gottlieb

The mysteries and scandals of the Kremlin are nothing compared to the mysteries and scandals of the Bolshoi.

John Bogle

The scandal is not what's illegal. It's what's legal.

Darby Stanchfield

My favorite cast member of Scandal is Josh Malina.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation.

St. Jerome

No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.

Stephen Colbert

There hasn't been a scandal this big at the C.I.A. since (CLASSIFIED) committed (CENSORED) to (REDACTED).

Michael Kinsley

I have a saying: the scandal isn't what's illegal, the scandal is what's legal.

William Maxwell

My wife has to tell me I haven't said anything all day. I've stopped talking, and I'm totally unaware of it.

Vijay Batra

We have stopped work on the footbridge after objections from Pakistani soldiers,

Kyle Chandler

I've stopped racing to get to the red light.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Eternity: what a waste of time.

Joel Osteen

You spend your time like you spend money. You can waste it or invest it.

Gene Wilder

Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.

Betty White

I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.

Ben Hecht

Out of the seventy movies I've written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.

T. S. Eliot

I can connect Nothing with nothing

Thomas Love Peacock

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

Tug McGraw

Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste.

Steven Morrissey

Again, I lay awake, and I cried because of waste.