Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kay Redfield Jamison

A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.

Neil Tennant

I think it proves that being gay isn't a cultural choice, which means you've got to like Barbra Streisand records. You can be what you want to be.

Tim Berners-Lee

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems-about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

Sam Brownback

I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.

Thomas Hahn

He represented kind of the lowest residue of cultural knowledge. The implication is that every English speaker by the 1380s would have known Robin Hood. ... That's a pretty extraordinary idea.

Thomas Hahn

He represented kind of the lowest residue of cultural knowledge, ... The implication is that every English speaker by the 1380s would have known Robin Hood. ... That's a pretty extraordinary idea.

Diego Della Valle

La Scala is easily one of the top 10 symbols of Italy's cultural excellence. That makes it vital to our global image. Closing it would send a message to the rest of the world that Italy doesn't care.

Bob Dixon

I think that was a contribution to the community, an enlightening cultural exchange,

Jay Chism

It is important that a good sales staff know which product works on what pest. It is also important for retailers to know when to recommend good cultural practices. Not every problem in the home landscape can be cured from a pesticide bottle.

Kelly Osbourne

They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?

William Cowper

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

William Cowper

Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Clifford Longley

John Henry Newman was as English as roast beef, even if he lacked a passion for cricket.

John Krasinski

I taught English in Costa Rica before I went to college. I'm not an especially outdoorsy guy, but sometimes I would spot wildlife while whitewater rafting or walking in the rainforest at 5 A.M.

Graham Nelson

By the new year of 1994, it had grown up into Inform 4 and could produce games twice as large.

Graeme Le Saux

The first year I sold a photo to was a lady who thought I was a chef, for some reason. I've no idea why.

Graeme Le Saux

So it was a hard decision but I know it is the right one.

Thomas Sydenham

I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.

Madeleine Quayat

I was known as the person with the 24-hour smile.

Peter Jennings

I would think he would have wanted to be known for more than just that.

Ken Harrelson

He is the most misperceived person I have known in my life in sports.

Ramsey Clark

has been in total isolation. He hasn't seen a member of his family, talked to a member of his family, met with a lawyer or met with friends he has known before.

Thomas R. Insel

In the 1830s, Dorothea Dix revolutionized the care of people with mental illness by taking them out of jails and caring for them in asylums, later known as state hospitals.

Torrey Smith

I want to be known as a solid all-around receiver that's fast, not a fast guy that plays receiver.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HARANGUE, n. A speech by an opponent, who is known as an harrangue- outang.

Edward Wilson

Here we are at the rheas. That's now known as Darwin's rhea, and it lived about 1,000 kilometers south of the larger variety.

Bob Henderson

I think it's a very serious matter. In fact, it's known that it's a serious matter when you take some communications that you were supposed to have.

Steve Hutchinson

He's been thrown into the fire. It was the lowest of the lows. In my rookie year, he was getting booed off the field. Of anybody, I'm proudest of Matt.

Cindy Hockenberry

If you know your itemized deductions will be more than the standard deduction, you can still just use the standard deduction to get an idea in your mind. This will give you the lowest estimate.

Mary Badham

If more people would try and reach up instead of going to the lowest common denominator, I think we'd be a lot better off.

Ben Gunn

The UK now offers the lowest margins in the world.

Vijay Singh

Tomorrow I've got to do it again, I have to shoot the lowest round I possibly can.

Dave Dasgupta

Traditionally the first and second quarters have the lowest losses.

Rod Butler

This is the lowest score we've shot in the three years I've been here.

Terry Matterson

It was undoubtedly the lowest point of our season so far.

Jack Vaughn

You might find it on the Web for (cheaper). You can't always be the lowest price.

Robin McKinley

Mice are terribly chatty. They will chat about anything, and if there is nothing to chat about, they will chat about having nothing to chat about. Compared to mice, robins are reserved.

Julie Kagawa

Robin Goodfellow, for all his pranks and mischief, was the sweetest, most noble person I'd ever known, and I'd missed him terribly.

Ned Yost

I tried to set Robin up as much as I could.

Kevin Reilly

Those two really clicked. When we sat down and Robinson started telling his story, we just could see it. We could see the show.

Ali Smith

The proper word for me," Robin Goodman says, "is me.

Kevin Warsh

I would say [Fed policy] has been in some sense Reverse Robin Hood.

Maurice Gibb

I suppose being his twin made me understand Robin that much more easily.

Claude Rains

There's a death sentence for your Robin of Locksley.

Heath Ledger

I am not a public speaker and never will be.

Teodoro Casino

This is unfortunate because the Speaker turned back on his words. He stabbed us on our backs.

Tom DeLay

advising the speaker and the leadership. I worked the votes, did it all.

Horace

Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

Ben Jonson

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.