Famous Quotes & Sayings

David S. Rose

Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st.

Igor Ivanov

We are at the start of the 21st century and there are many risks in the world and we think that collaboration between Russia and the Vatican corresponds to the common good,

Cecilia Bartoli

I am a person of the 18th century.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Whether or not people go into space or serve the space industry, they will have the sensitivity to those fields necessary to stimulate unending innovation in the technological fields, and it's that innovation in the 21st century that will drive tomorrow's economies.

DuBose Egleston

We're moving into the 21st century - and people expect you to be available. I've had about 200 visitors to the site so far in this campaign. Two hundred people - that's 200 people that you might influence to vote for you.

Tom Browning

We're moving into the 20th century. I know it's the 21st century already, but at least we'll finally be in the 20th century.

Siri Hustvedt

Years ago, when I was in Siena for the first time, I saw the works of Duccio, whose deeply emotional painting from the thirteenth century has never left me.

Michael Leavitt

Three times in this century we have experienced pandemic influenza and they will come again. We must be ready,

Robert McCullough

Vermont's 19th century highway system was in need of improvement.

John Wright

The people who enjoy classical music, opera, even classical ballet, would come to classical theatre if it were well-acted and imaginatively presented.

W. Hull

We still see the dominance of rap, R&B, alternative punk, and pop. But we are definitely seeing growth in jazz and classical music.

Richard Hyung-ki Joo

We want people to know that classical music is for everyone. A parent or kid might be terrified of this music, but after they come to us, they'll never be scared of classical music again.

M. H. Abrams

Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.

Lionel Richie

It was very interesting in my world, because I grew up as a fan and I did not know that there was a thing called R&B, pop, country, classical - I just knew that I loved music.

M. Wolfe

WFSU is incredibly lucky to offer top quality programming on FM, with a news and classical station, and on television,

Alexandra Fuller

I listen mostly to classical music.

Richard P. Feynman

There were several possible solutions of the difficulty of classical electrodynamics, any one of which might serve as a good starting point to the solution of the difficulties of quantum electrodynamics.

Eric Whitacre

I'm a self-confessed geek, and my whole concept of music at first was entirely electronic. In many ways, it turned out to be an advantage. I was so green, so utterly naive about the nature of classical music, that I did things that made me look totally, deliberately unorthodox.

Tommy Amaker

We're going to face a team that has played in the tournament and won in the tournament. That's one of the things that is concerning me.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

We're in uncharted territory. This is the first time we've seen mass protests concerning the legitimacy of a person who's been elected.

Shimon Peres

When I look at the record of President Obama concerning the major issue security I think it's a highly satisfactory record from Israeli point of view.

Lajos Kossuth

I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest.

John Whitacre

We are guardedly optimistic concerning our performance over the second half of this year.

Alexei Miller

There are no disputes between Russia and Turkmenistan concerning the price or volumes of the Turkmen gas that we import.

Gary Sheffer

There are discussions going on concerning our proposal submitted on June 14. Part of our proposal is related to GECAS.

Melanie Sloan

I think it's a little too cozy. It's not an uncommon practice, but it is a concerning one.

Joseph Moore

to express our sincerest gratitude to everyone who offered their prayers and support concerning the safe return of Erica.

Benjamin Franklin

Fiction or fable allures to instruction.

Brandon Boyd

Above our heads exists an infinity of unfathomable fantasiastics: and fields of future fireside fables trail close behind

Yann Martel

The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.

David Attenborough

Natural history is not about producing fables.

Beeban Kidron

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

Joseph Addison

Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.

Northrop Frye

The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring.

George Washington

Providence has done, and I am persuaded is disposed to do, a great deal for us; but we are not to forget the fable of Jupiter and the countryman.

Joseph Joubert

National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.

Logan Pearsall Smith

There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Thomas Moore

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.

Bertrand Piccard

Before achieving a dream, you need to make very little steps... People don't understand that when you want to make a big dream you have a lot of fastidious little things you have to do.

Thomas Moore

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rouT to retire upon.

Logan P. Smith

There is one thing that matters / to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

David McCullough

The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.

Naval Ravikant

Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.

P. J. Harvey

What happens with these guys (organizations) is it's very hard to find a successor. When the charismatic founder goes away, who's going to replace him?

Robert Mankoff

I was the founder of the 'Cartoon Bank' in the '90s. I was interested in finding ways for cartoonists to supplement their incomes.

Sathya Baba

Love towards all beings. The founders always had in view the Unity of all life and the progressive march of man towards Divinity.

Carly Fiorina

Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class.

Andrew Mason

Am I as experienced, or mature, or smart as others CEOs? No probably not, but there's something, I think, very useful about having a founder as the CEO.

Mitch Kapor

One of the perks of being the founder is that you get to build the company in your image.

Ursula Burns

Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.

Alan Watts

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

Alan Perlis

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

Alan Perlis

In English every word can be verbed.

Chogyam Trungpa

Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.

Dave Chappelle

The language you are about to hear... is disturbing.

David Mitchell

Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!

David Crystal

The internet is an amazing medium for languages,

David Crystal

Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.

Caitlin Thomas

resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.

Angela Davis

Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary's life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.

Carl Gustav Jung

Only what is really oneself has the power to heal.

Danish Proverb

One should speak little with others and much with oneself

Janet Frame

Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.

Frank Darabont

I find it doesn't pay to take oneself too seriously. And I like that sort of irreverence when I see it with other people.

Bruce Lee

To live is to express oneself freely

D. H. Lawrence

He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

Latin Proverb

What is done for another is done for oneself

Doris Lessing

There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best

David Sanborn

While St. Louis is technically regarded as part of the Mid-West, it's actually - geographically and emotionally - more part of the South. I mean, the sensibility of St. Louis is really very much that of a Southern Mississippi river-town.

Isoroku Yamamoto

Japan has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments.

John Maynard Keynes

Regarded as a means, (the businessman) is tolerable; as an end, he is not so satisfactory

Sean Wilson

I don't want to come off that I'm whining about the situation, but I was disappointed. I've always regarded this as the tradition of a school.

Katie Findlay

I don't know how to exist before 9 A.M. And without coffee, I'm not classified as a human. Actually, I could be regarded as a threat.

Thomas Perls

These findings should be regarded as a warning: If you have Alzheimer's in the family, you have to take precautions.

Charles Dickens

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Charles Dickens

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

Charles Dickens

Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

Charles Dickens

Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.

Chris Cornell

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.

Louise Erdrich

It was enough just to sit there without words.

David Hume

The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.

Edward Everett Hale

I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

Carlos Castaneda

Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?

Arthur Bryant

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Jean Paul

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.