Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles W. Pickering

Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.

Charles Spurgeon

I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.

Alan Bennett

A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.

Djuna Barnes

Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won’t stick out.

David Sedaris

My feet are completely flat, but for most of my life they were still shaped like feet. Now, thanks to bunions, they're shaped more like states, wide boring ones that nobody wants to drive through.

David Mitchell

Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.

Dave Barry

UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons.

Bruno Latour

Be not the one who debunks but the one who assembles, not the one who lifts the rugs from under the feet of the naive believers but the one who offers arenas in which to gather.

Bryan Stevenson

Once we had a rail station in Montgomery that connected to Columbus and went all the way up to Virginia, slave traders could transport thousands of slaves at a fraction of the cost than they could transport by boat, and certainly by foot. And that's how Montgomery became such an active slave-trading space.

Bob Marley

Jah come to break downpression, rule equality, wipe away transgression, set the captives free.

John Boitano

I thought we were going to get wiped when we were down 14-0.

Rev. Barham

He had no little handkerchief to wipe his little nose.

Jeffrey Steele

It doesn't take much to wipe out the treasury,

Harry Ponfil

If they can get that they can wipe out my account.

Craig Miller

A lot of the departments down there have been wiped out, ... There's no 911 for us.

Rick Najera

New York was the place where everyone got wiped out.

Richard Preston

Initially, there were a lot of fears that Ebola could mutate to become the airborne Andromeda strain that would wipe us all out.

Noel Gallagher

You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous.

Edith Wharton

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

Carlos Fuentes

There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.

Boozoo Chavis

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.

Edmund Burke

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Brian King

We try to keep the regulations down. That's an A.T. tradition as much as anything else.

Charles Rosen

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

Auguste Comte

The dead govern the living.

Camille Paglia

The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.

Allan Bloom

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.