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.

Robert Wise

His mood in the morning depended on what went on at home, but I never met an actor quite like him, ... He knew exactly what worked for him on screen and knew what he could get away with.

Tennessee Williams

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

S. Walker

It was in the national security interest, because we depended on the stability in Turkey and the stability in Jordan in order to encircle Saddam Hussein.

Felipe Alou

The possibility was open for him to be here during the game. It all depended on something he had to do.

Mark Gottfried

Ron has probably rushed his shots a little bit. I want him just to settle down and play. I think we've depended on him too much, too.

Anna Kendrick

I never thought that tailoring was something that normal people did; I just thought that it was something that guys who had suits made of Italian silk depended on, and I wish someone had told me what a difference tailoring makes!

John Coffee

The partnership knew the firm was no longer viable so there was no reason not to roll the dice. If their survival depended on this jury they probably would have settled.

Napoleon Bonaparte

When you fight, fight as if everything depended on you. When you pray, pray as if everything depended on God.

Adam Ereli

This is unfortunately not inconsistent with past North Korean practice, which is to ignore the needs of its people and let them starve for inexplicable reasons.

Clive Sinclair

Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print.

Dennis Poust

Now it can't be ignored and the Legislature needs to negotiate it.

Efraim Zuroff

totally ignored by the Israeli establishment for decades.

Michael Scott

And in their rush to create wonders, they have ignored the wonders all around them, ignored the mysteries, the beauty.

Theodore Roosevelt

Malefactors of great wealth have arrogantly ignored the public welfare.

Bob Brewer

I don't think you can completely ignore that.

Miriam Toews

Ignore all advice about writing. Leave your blood on every page. Every page!

Rivers Cuomo

I always loved the 'L.A. Weekly.' I totally looked up to it when Weezer was starting out, and I always wanted to be in it, and they always totally ignored us!

Brad Goreski

There are so many levels in fashion that I'm happy to dip in and dip out of it all.

P. J. Harvey

going on at the acquisition level and the requirements level.

Scott Butler

I think it's here now, but it may not stay, ... I don't know that it will level out at this amount.

F. Schumacher

I think with 12 to 13 minutes left, we stepped up our level of play. We were in a lull in the first half.

Michael Holland

I think we are down to levels were people have said enough is enough.

Taizo Nishimuro

It is necessary to raise the level of screening for start-up firms when they are to be listed.

Peter Lai

Hutchison has risen more than HK$10 this week so at this level it will see some profit taking.

Dennis Wiese

He has a wide level of support, but it doesn't seem to be very deep.

Ron Atkinson

Scholes is very influential for England at international level.

David Franks

I will not work with them. I'll work with other breeders. We'll do our own thing, but right now it's a living we're making, a living here. And if there doing that we'll find out someday. The truth will come out.

Virender Sehwag

One should always be happy, irrespective of what you achieve in a match or in life. That's how I live my life.

Bruce Brown

I'm living in the middle of a nightmare.

Carol Wood

We're living in a different world now. We have lots of security measures in place.

James Ellis

It's no longer a museum piece. She's actually a living ship.

Dick Durbin

Evergreen tenants should not have to spend another day living in substandard conditions,

Steve Berry

It's sobering. Living in the Midwest, you don't feel nearly as vulnerable, but it's these times when we probably feel the most vulnerable.

Luis Ramirez

It's been hard, we've been living day by day. We don't have any place to live, to work, nothing.

Brad Dennis

It's important to know who's living around us, and what's living around us.