Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hume

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Anthony Hopkins

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

Ann Patchett

I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.

Cornelia Funke

Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.

Alfred Hershey

Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

Carl Jung

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

John Elway

I don't know if I like being the sentimental favorite.

Ellen Glasgow

I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.

Isabella Rossellini

I always encourage women to let their individuality show by not covering up what they perceive as flaws. When I see a woman with the natural wrinkles of time on her face, I do not see the wrinkles at all, but when I see a woman trying to cover them up with too much foundation or concealer, all I see are her wrinkles.

Boss Bailey

Since I'm covering the tight end a lot, I wanted to talk to him about what tight ends are thinking.

John Stack

This really does remind me of covering a war zone or a Third World story.

Matisyahu

When I'm meditating on an idea, I try to let the idea completely saturate me to the point where I feel like I'm covering myself in it or totally immersing myself in it, so that everywhere I'm looking, everywhere I'm going, it's through the lens of that idea. And that's sort of what I do with the music - I try to lose myself in it.

David Carr

When things aren't going well and they start covering you up and taking our stuff away, it's a very lonely feeling in the pocket, ... You're trying to do whatever you can to make a positive out of it when your team is struggling. And there's not much to do.

Lynn Schusterman

I am proud to state that every national Jewish organization we support enforces non-discrimination practices around sexual orientation and that more than 70 percent have written policies in place covering gender identity and expression.

Brandon Flowers

The feathers have been retired to the London Hard Rock Cafe. I don't obsess about it as much. Also, it's strange - the better physical shape I get in, the less I care about what suit I'm covering myself up in. I'm not really out to flaunt it, but I'm just more comfortable in my own skin.

Betty Wright

I've just learned that love is a very fleeting thing, so we - then we have it; we need to hold on to it but hold on to it in a gracious fashion. Not in the smothering but more so just a covering kind of love.

Ron Ream

We practiced covering the option all week. The defense did a great job of staying with their assignments.

Cal Thomas

The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it as the solution to humankind's problems.

Vince Megna

Police brutality is only effective when it is not caught on tape.

Mark Leno

No. 1, the crime would not have occurred. And the brutality would not have been (as bad) as it was. This was a hate crime because she was a transgender woman.

Chuck Schultz

Because of the brutality of the crime, that was an overriding factor for the jury in deciding for death for Mr. Morales, and the governor supported that decision.

Jim Martin

Because of the brutality in this case, because public information would help this investigation.

Bobby Bowden

He's gotten into a different situation now and needs to step it up. And it looks like he's got the message. He's got the physical part, the brutality part down. He just needs the finesse part, doing the things correctly and doing it smoothly. He's got the tools of somebody you can count on.

Ben Crump

We can never ever let anything like this happen again, and if we don't get this videotape out, people will never know the truth. Police brutality is unacceptable at any time.

Al Sharpton

The real loser is Rudy Giuliani, ... We proved how out of touch he is with the voters of New York. The issues of unemployment, police brutality and the schools not working are on the front burner. You can run, Rudy, but you can't hide.

Ruth Rendell

Why do we have to have violence, torture, brutality in crime dramas every time we turn on television? Any new crime drama is going to have, sooner or later, a lot of torture and nasty things that make people flinch. Lots of young people I know shrink and flinch from that kind of thing on television, so I think showing it is a mistake.