Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. F. Schumacher

The fundamental task is to achieve smallness within large organisation.

David Suzuki

The environment is so fundamental to our continued existence that it must transcend politics and become a central value of all members of society.

Chico Hamilton

But you can't extend, or go beyond any point musically, without the basic fundamentals.

Antonio Tabucchi

There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

Bob Brown

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

Bob Inglis

The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.

Bjarne Stroustrup

The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer

Bill Gates

A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.

Janez Drnovsek

One of the fundamental questions of today's world is undoubtedly the question of equitable globalisation.

Edward Fitzgerald

Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare; tomorrow's Silence, Triumph, or Despair: Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

William Shakespeare

Though this be madness, yet there is method

William Shakespeare

My wits begin to turn.

Billy Ocean

Success can create more madness than happiness.

William Shakespeare

Like madness is the glory of life.

Elie Wiesel

[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

Bruce Sterling

One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

Arundhati Roy

Madness slunk in through a chink in History. It only took a moment.

Anthony Trollope

She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.

X. J. Kennedy

To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.

Yann Martel

I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

Imelda May

I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

Idris Elba

Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

Gad Elmaleh

When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it; merci.' But I'm not interested in that.

Gail Carriger

I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

Gilbert Hernandez

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

Donald Trump

Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel - there are certain just spectacular landmarks - it's an honor; it's really an honor.

Zadie Smith

Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you.