Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. L. Mencken

Syllogisms а la mode - If you are against labor racketeers, then you are against the working man. If you are against demagogues, then you are against democracy. If you are against Christianity, then you are against God. If you are against trying a can of Old Dr. Quack's Cancer Salve, then you are in favor of letting Uncle Julius die.

H. L. Mencken

Never underestimate the booberie of the booboisie.

Guillaume Apollinaire

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

Greg Lake

I couldn't say there is a formula to songwriting. Each time is a unique experience.

Grace Jones

It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict: our hair couldn't be permed or straightened. So I just cut it all off.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Never underestimate your power to change yourself...

Grant Achatz

It is critical to have a sound understanding of traditional culinary principles before attempting to push boundaries in cuisine. Larousse Gastronomique helps me execute the progressive cooking we do at Alinea.

George Herbert

When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding.

Georg Buchner

One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.

Georg Baselitz

I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious.

Gene Hackman

My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.

Harold Rosenberg

I can't understand it. They just wanted to retire.

I can understand that some unions have frustrations and they have to be addressed, but you can't keep everyone happy.

William Hanson

I couldn't understand a word he was saying,

I don't think there are too many traditional media guys who really understood what the new digital media is about.

Chipper Jones

I don't think they're going to let me go out there unless I wear it.

Hugo Grotius

By understanding many things, I have accomplished nothing.

Our understanding is that it is not yet in place.

Barack Obama

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?

Lars Mikkelsen

I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.

We did want them to try new foods. We wanted to give them something that is unique and different and healthy.

Vin Scully

It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.

Nigel Hamilton

I've never really understood the term 'Post-Impressionism' as more than a label for Cezanne, Gauguin and van Gogh.

Lech Walesa

I represent the concept that pluralism is essential, union pluralism. I made an oath about this.

Aristotle

Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us.

Alexandra Stoddard

You can't be a resource for others unless you nourish yourself.

Henry Selick

Underneath this tired, middle-aged exterior, I'm an 11 year old kid.

Harold Feinstein

Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.

Jim Lovell

We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Mary Wilson

We have always understood that visibility is viability.