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.

Daniel Toole

I would stress that the $US805 million ($A1.08 billion) is enough to cope, to meet the minimum requirements of these children. It's not luxury and it is also not emergencies that happen after today.

Daniel Toole

I would stress that the $805 million is enough to cope, to meet the minimum requirements of these children. It's not luxury and it is also not emergencies that happen after today.

Diana Yates

What would have happened to Citigroup under a weaker operating environment?

Wim Kok

It chokes me up, ... This is the most terrible thing that could happen to people.

Russ Knocke

It didn't happen at the same time at all the different places.

Tim Camacho

It didn't happen and everything happens for a reason. These guys, I think, pulled if off for her. She's up there watching.

Jay Wright

I thought West Virginia was just great. It's the Big East. You knew it was going to come some time where someone was going to play a better game. We've just got to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Brian Belski

I think the market is taking a step back and assessing what's really going to happen with the stimulus package.

Rich Teglia

I think their physical size and strength wore us down. It just didn't happen for us today.

Dave Fullerton

I think what I am learning is to listen to my body.

Matisyahu

Every record I do is a learning process for how I want to do the next one.

Virgil

He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things. -Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas

William Strunk, Jr.

Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.

John C. Maxwell

As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.

Howard Schnellenberger

They are learning with every game, ... and this bodes well for the future.

R. Ingram

They just don't have a lot to work with. They're learning as they go.

Jeffrey Zeldman

I wanted to be a writer and an artist. Learning to type as quickly as I could think was a needed skill and part of my long self-directed apprenticeship.

Chris Wilcox

It's going to take time. It's a learning process.

Peter Thonis

This is a logical and predictable move by AT&T ( T ).

Romano Prodi

It's the logical consequence of a wrong decision,

John Wanous

That's logical because there is no connection, ... They're paid by the hour, not by performance. It's a (union-) negotiated wage.

Sam Harris

If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence. If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?

Thomas Jane

I just have a respect for my audience. That seems to be pretty logical.

Bill Freeman

Just patriotism, ... No matter what went down, we were supporting our own nation and land.

Doug Miller

He comes up with a lot of big plays no matter where you put him.

Sally Field

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Sloane Crosley

Going to a museum is one of those inexplicably tiring things. You're not actually doing anything, more shifting your weight from room to room than walking. And yet it is one of the more tiring things one can do, no matter how thrilled you are by the exhibits.

Brian Beckwith

His success is all to him. It's all a matter of how he thinks each night and how he prepares for each game.

Arlen Specter

I think it's more a matter for them than us because we've got ... a lot of matters which take precedence over this for our own time,

Rocky Juarez

I think it's just a matter of time before I get a shot at a world title or an opportunity to be back on television.

Steve Parrott

I think it's a matter of, that's the market.

Charles Grassley

I think it's a matter of accommodating people who see unfair competition,

Jeff Capell

Jamal can do that. He can score points in bunches.

Andrew Kohut

His ratings for being trustworthy, which were his strong point for all of his first term, have tumbled rather substantially this year.

Rich Baccellieri

I think (the point spread) would go to 3 before it went up to 4. But I think it's pretty solid at 3 1/2.

M. Thompson

I thought she was going to make a four- point difference. Turned out, it was five.

Kobe Bryant

He has been solid for us all year. Now he's putting points on the board, which is very popular with the people.

Jeremy Miller

He has the right to go to trial, but it would be a moot point by the time he did, because his shares will be gone.

William Golding

For a small island, the place is remarkably diverse. Writers tend to see things from their own points of view, looking in one direction very much.

Tom Schatz

Our point is simple. These projects were wasteful before, and they only seem more wasteful because we have a real emergency,

Mike Conner

I probably should play him more. He's averaging two points every 30 seconds he's in there.

Richard P. Feynman

Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license from the rules of mathematics in order to express what we wish to say in as simple a manner as possible.

Richard Dawkins

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Richard Dawkins

A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is going to need a mammoth explanation in its own right.

Rick Riordan

Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. “Keep it simple.

William Morris

Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

Rebecca Stead

Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.

Roald Dahl

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

Richard Dawkins

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

Robin Williams

We Americans, we're a simple people . . . but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities.