Famous Quotes & Sayings

Algernon Swinburne

A creed is a rod,/ And a crown is of night:/ But this thing is God:/ To be man with thy might,/ To grow straight in the strength of thy spirit, and live out thy life as the light.

Wendell Phillips

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after

Shashi Tharoor

I don't go by my caste, creed or religion. My works speak for me.

Robert Ingersoll

My creed is that; Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Thomas Jefferson

My creed had been formed on unsheathing the sword at Lexington

John Fiske

One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere.

Hugh Forrest

Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.

Elizabeth Stanton

Thus far, women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of social life are all of masculine origin. The true woman is as yet a dream of the future.

Arlo Guthrie

My only description for me is that there's no throwaway people. That's the creed that I live by. It doesn't matter if I'm singing or not. That's the kind of person that my father and mother wanted me to be. The end obligation is to make people feel good about who they are.

Amos Oz

I know one or two things about fanaticism and death, and I reject them.

Fisher Ames

That can never be reasoned down which was not reasoned up.

Cynthia Ozick

I think that fanaticism is terrific. As long as you don't have to live with it. Oh, yes, nobody should marry a writer.

John C. Calhoun

Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. There can be no fanaticism but where there is more passion than reason; and hence, in the nature of things, movements originating in it run down in a short time by their folly and extravagance.

Amos Oz

But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort.

Chris Bauer

I'm not one of those actors who sits around the table and intellectualizing anything, or discusses much of anything. Everything for me is intuitive and instinctive.

David Hilbert

Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table.

Mark Reiland

The table was set for us to come in and do that. We just had to come out and put it all together.

Dick Armey

I've been at the table now for two weeks,

Calvin Coolidge

Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.

Diana Vreeland

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

Dana Perino

I waited tables at Govnr's Park Tavern in Denver.

William Ginsburg

Everything is on the table ... If I were the president, I'd worry.

Eric Brewer

Everything's pretty much on the table as to what we're going to do with that property.

Al Sharpton

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.

Loretta Young

Way off in 2060, I wonder what we do today will look like in perspective, and after it's been sifted through the objectivity of time.

Bill Moyers

The consensual seduction of the mainstream media by and with the government is one of the most dangerous toxins at work in America today.

Bertolt Brecht

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

Carl Bernstein

Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

Charlaine Harris

I gave myself a mental shake. Snapping out of a slump, that was what today was all about.

Charles Schumer

In today's competitive economy, to stand still is to die.

Charles Francis Richter

My main point today is that usually one gets what one expects, but very rarely in the way one expected it.

Denise Van Outen

At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.

Eden Sher

I will have a largely happier week if I get to do a physical stunt.

Bobby Cannavale

The music I was always attracted to and the shows I was really into like, you know, those weekend Don Kirshner shows, "Midnight Special," those shows, I remember watching those and the music was just on; it was the greatest radio stations.

John Powell

Playing is much, much harder than composing in my opinion, becoming a player. If you want to be a player for all your life either you decide not to do it professionally and just enjoy it and just do it every weekend, but if you want to be a professional musician- hardest thing I could imagine and I really wasn't capable of doing it.

Annika Sorenstam

Three-under after two weeks of really no golf, I can't complain,

Chris Dickson

They know as of a week ago what we've done.

Lori White

They thought in two weeks it would be in the back of the closet.

Terrence Roberts

It really wasn't a surprise. He's been doing it all week long.

David Sedaris

I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me.