Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Gitlin

My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies.

Kenneth L. Pike

Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.

Lewis Mumford

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.

Kelly Miller

When the armistice was declared American forces had fought their way to Sedan.

Kelly Miller

Kara Braxton, she's a great player, so I think they can go far this year.

Kenneth L. Pike

We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?

Kenneth L. Pike

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.

Kenneth L. Pike

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

Kenneth L. Pike

The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.

John Ritzo

I think this is a real lesson in life, to be honest with you. I don't think (Bode) really grasped the enormity of '60 Minutes' - to go on and say what he did was really not thought out at all.

Larry Quinn

We essentially started from scratch. It is very realistic to say that for a project of this enormity and complexity, we're now moving at breakneck speed.

Robert Wyatt

The faces of our students after they realize the enormity of what they have accomplished through the years,

Tom Cullen

To be honest, I'm not even thinking about America. If I was to start thinking about the enormity of 'Downton' and the size of the project, then I wouldn't be able to be very truthful to the work. I would start to watch myself too much. I'm not even thinking about it. Who knows what will happen.

Richard Scudamore

I think everyone has been taken aback by the sheer enormity of events following the Indian Ocean earthquake,

Melindo Persi

We understand the frustration of the folks. I don't think all of the residents understood the enormity of the problem. We're looking at the possibility of running out of money in March.

Gerald Massengill

What I wanted to see was the enormity of the situation.

Paul Greengrass

There were two stages of it. The sort of staggering enormity of that second plane - when you realized that this was obviously deliberate, and then all of a sudden, a lull sort of sank in for 20 minutes or half an hour. And then that really frightening thing when the Pentagon got struck. You just thought, where is this gonna end?

James Adamson

I'm very energized but, I also recognize the enormity of our challenge,

Victoria Strauss

Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.

Herman Edwards

That was something that might not have been as special to him as it was to all of us, he's not that kind of guy. He's about the team, that's what makes him so unique.

Brad Johnson

Most communities will not have any trouble by 2008, but 2013 might be a little tougher.

Thomas Reid

might not be an appropriate place for him to stay.

Chuck Smith

Might be guilty' isn't enough. 'Possibly guilty' isn't enough. 'Probably guilty' isn't enough.

Eliot Spitzer

Who might or might not be my opponent on the other side of the aisle, I'll just wait and see how it plays out,

Eliot Spitzer

who might not understand the ways of Wall Street.

Kweisi Mfume

who might not like what we have to say.

Chris Morrison

Who knows? You don't know who you might draw.

C. S. Lewis

Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

Cecelia Ahern

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

Cecelia Ahern

Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.

Carrie Brownstein

I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.

Carl Sagan

We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands.

Carl Sagan

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

Benjamin Rush

It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it?

Antoni Tapies

At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could finally be taken to those areas which also had moved me so deeply and made me think I should draw the attention of others to it.