Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Tilson Thomas

The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions.

Max Eastman

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

Max von Sydow

All my life I've been looking for diversity

Marilynne Robinson

It is diversity that makes any natural system robust, and diversity that stabilizes culture against the eccentricity and arrogance that have so often called themselves reason and science.

Mary Ellen Chase

Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.

Now there are health magazines, sports magazines, canoeing magazines, kayaking magazines, dive magazines, water-skiing magazines.

If anything, you could say they're expanding pretty slowly into international markets. They're financially a very conservative company. But now they're ready to dive in overseas.

Richard Gibson

I would envisage exhibits demonstrating the range and diversity of amphibians and their habitats,

Steve Mason

We need a diverse economy. It isn't going to keep the school open, or the hospital open, or the grocery store open all by itself. But it isn't going to hurt them.

That was so long ago, we don't think about it. We like the scene, but it's not diverse enough.

We don't spend any time looking at their figures. We think it's irrelevant and it's purely a publicity gimmick. There are more women and minorities working in the NFL than ever, and diversity in our workplace is an important league priority.

You don't expect easy games this time of the year. This is what you work for all fall and winter, why you practice. You have to get to every loose ball, dive for everything. Every possession could be your last.

W. Somerset Maugham

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

Instead of taking divers out and searching all over the place near the house boat, we can use the sonar to identify hotspots we need to go to and utilize our resources more efficiently.

I hope they don't get sold for exorbitant amounts of money, so it can be a fairly diverse group of people.

R. D. Laing

There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

Meher Baba

...the more a person becomes spiritually minded or advances towards God, the more tolerant he becomes and the less differentiation he sees.

Phil Collins

Deep inside us we're not that different at all.

Jonathan Haidt

We can tolerate great diversity in our aesthetic beliefs, but we can't tolerate much diversity in our moral beliefs.

It's exciting to know that this is going to be a close, competitive sectional. It gives us divers something to really get pumped up over. We have a shot at being the difference.

Jacques Chirac

This is a France that wins and is, for once, united in victory, ... symbol of the diversity and of the unity of the country.

Andre Agassi

It's not really a function of how fast it is, because a lot of guys can serve it 135-plus, ... The trajectory is the main issue, because you are lunging, but then it's (bounced) up in the air. You're sort of diving, but then you can't reach it, even if you dive perfectly on cue.

I tried to dive over the guy, but he already got it and put it in the net.

Ryan Cabrera

I took a Dive and On the Way down I Saw you and You Saved me from Myself and I won't Forget the Way you Loved me.

Pharrell Williams

The more I can make a person comfortable in their environment by taking my ego's hat off and leaving it at the door, then they can dive deep within themselves and we can pull out something interesting that people have never heard before. It's the stuff that's - that no one's ever heard before is really interesting.

I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.

William Adams

So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before.

True to form, we got great kids out of the area. It's a very diverse group. We got some big linemen and some great skill kids, too.

The diverse sound of my music makes it a good fit for that demographic.

This set of photos shows the diversity of things we've been seeing on Mars during the last several months,

This was a great quarter for 3M with broad-based contributions from our diverse portfolio and particularly strong results in our industrial and electronics-related businesses.

We put together what I think is a really solid and really diverse field for this year's championship.