Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'd like to see it go gold (U.S. shipments in excess of 500,000 copies) and I think it will.

Woody Harrelson

Ive always believed the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Richard Le Gallienne

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

Vladimir Lenin

Crime is a product of social excess.

Samuel Johnson

A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.

If Portsmouth were to be closed, the U.S. would be left with only 8 percent excess capacity,

Suzi Quatro

I have record approximately 10 studio albums. I had 16 top ten singles and sold in excess of 45 million records all over the world.

William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on: give me excess of it...

In a normal winter flu year... flu actually kills in excess of 12,000 people,

Sadako Ogata

The excessive use of violence in Kosovo has to be contained,

Henry Adams

That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them.

William Blake

The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.

James Chanos

Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China.

It's hard to get wage gains when you've got a persistently excess labor supply.

That, in and of itself, must have a value in excess of $1 million.

That letter generated in excess of $350,000. Some of the gifts were low-five-figure gifts. Most were high-three-figure gifts. They involved some real sacrificial giving on the part of many, many people.

Joseph Joubert

Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!

Moliere

All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

Publilius Syrus

In excess altercation, truth is lost.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.

Neil Peart

Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.

We traditionally in this world didn't have enough calories to feed all of us and had huge famines, not just in Africa, but had them across India, across Southeast Asia, and across China. Because of Borlaug's work at Simit and because of this we have huge excess, until very recently, in agricultural produce and the prices went through the floor.

Ouida

Excess always carries its own retribution.

Ouida

Excess always carries it's own retributions.

I drink to excess, I gamble to excess, but everyone knows it, so it's not a big deal.

John Crowe Ransom

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

This market is not moving on fundamentals. There's an incessant flow of money, and you have a lot of stocks at excessive valuations. Once the flow of money subsides, you can look for a severe correction.

There was a lot of speculative excess that had to be shaken out of the market. And I think that's what we're seeing here today.

Heather Graham

I try to get 11 or 12 hours of sleep a night. It sounds excessive but that's really what I need.

Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

Bob Beauprez

Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what comparable workers in the private sector enjoy. In some instances, the total premium can be 30 percent or higher.

William Hazlitt

An excess of modesty is in fact an excess of pride, and more hurtful to the individual, and less advantageous to society, than the grossest and most unblushing vanity.