Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tina Brown

I just wanted to have fun for myself-I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions.

Norman Cousins

Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

Thomas Griffith

Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works.

William White

Consistency is only a paste jewel that cheap men cherish.

Norman Cousins

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

William Allen White

Consistency is the paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.

George Dennison Prentice

A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.

Ben Bradlee

I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit.

Ben Bradlee

They cut about seven minutes from that broadcast, but it was still vital to the story's momentum.

Ken Perkins

Is Wal-Mart also hurting its business? I think cheaper products at the discount stores did have a marginal impact on the company's sales.

Bob Garner

To fish 365 days a year, it's pretty cheap stuff - you can't get much cheaper than that.

Bob Davis

I look around at gas prices all the time, but this is the cheapest I can find. It's worth my time coming here.

Ebenezer Ekuban

I guess he got frustrated, ... It was a cheap shot. Hopefully, the NFL will fine him heavily.

Ed Stanton

The city has a reputation of being developer-oriented, not resident-oriented. Those city commissioners give the developer whatever they want. Some of these commissioners can be purchased at a very cheap price.

John Gannon

The emergence of text messaging offers fraudsters another cheap and easy way to reach large numbers of potential investors. Now more than ever, investors need to be vigilant about doing their homework before investing and taking the necessary steps to reduce the likelihood of falling prey to these scams.

Robert Brusca

You can't repeal the laws of economics. Wages in China are so cheap, that you'll never make labor cheap enough in the United States to compete with that.

Jon Gorman

The initial idea was to make something cheap and marketable. Nudity is definitely marketable.

Mike Allen

All we were trying to do was wear down the clock and we turn it over and give them a cheap touchdown.

Shawn Green

He's been incredible all year. From the latter part of spring training on, he's been a machine. I've never seen a guy with as limited number of at-bats put up the numbers he's been putting up, with consistency and in key situations.

Steve Nielsen

I'm looking to get more out of my starters, Boyle and McAdams, and hopefully, consistency will come with each performance.

Odalis Perez

I mixed my pitches and threw my fastball with more consistency. Everything is working.

Bryant Kitty

I have no idea what team it was to be honest with you. There's really no consistency, no heart.

Malcolm Muggeridge

The first thing I remember about the world...is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which is at once the glory and desolation of homo sapiens, provides the only thread of consistency that I can detect in my life.

Mila Kunis

I am very much a creature of habit, and I have no life consistency. None.

Joni Mitchell

I have lost my credibility as a hit maker because of these side excursions into other branches of music by not being consistent. Consistency seems to be all important.

John Jackson

The hallmark (of Nokia's designs) has been consistency.

K. Chesterton

The man who sees consistency in things is a wit; the man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist.

Rex Stout

A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality

Warren Buffett

If you don't know jewelry, know the jeweler.

Ludwig van Beethoven

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

Ken Cohen

Qigong is a jewel that has many facets.

Pearl S. Buck

Food for all is a necessity. Food should not be a merchandise, to be bought and sold as jewels are bought and sold by those who have the money to buy. Food is a human necessity, like water and air, it should be available.

Kate Reardon

My favourite thing in my wardrobe is my jewelry.

Judith McNaught

Some women need no jewels to make them sparkle. You are one of them. -Royce Westmoreland

Atharva Veda

The jewel of spiritual wisdom has been taken away from everyone; nothing can withstand it.

William Shakespeare

The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.

Plato

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

Jane Fonda

I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be.

Raquel Cassidy

I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted.

William Wilberforce

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

William Wilberforce

Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.

Abbott L. Lowell

There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

Abbott L. Lowell

All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.

Antoni Gaudi

The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God

Lord Shaftesbury

Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.