Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed. The thing you fear is impossible. Well and good. Can you therefore cease to fear it? Not here and now. And what then? If you must see ghosts, it is better not to disbelieve in them.

C. S. Lewis

At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize while remaining concrete, to present in palpable form not concepts or even experiences but whole classes of experience, and to throw off irrelevancies. Bat at its best it can do more; it can give us experiences we have never had and thus, instead of 'commenting on life,' can add to it.

Richard Clarke

We want to provide a link between the classroom environment and what you are doing outside of the classroom.

Kim Anderson

We have no idea how to classify ourselves. We pull from everything -- rock, hardcore, punk, indie.

Todd Apo

What the public wasn't envisioning was a swim through, swim with the dolphins kind of thing. They were looking for a truer aquarium, so the plan has developed into a classic aquarium with of course interactive features.

Greg Amundson

Whenever you can hold a Class A team to just three field goals you are playing pretty solid defense.

Wendy Kopp

Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be.

Jeff Judkins

When you're up 25 points, you pull your starters out with 1:54 left in the game. It's a classy way. You don't need to rub it in.

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.

Dan Stevens

I don't know much about my biological background.

Beck

Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically.

Coco Lee

I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.

J. I. Packer

N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds

Jodie Foster

I've got that Irish thing going on. Lots of Irish in my background.

Helen Thomas

I'm of Arab background.

Piper Perabo

I was glad to have had some dance background because some of the dances are pretty wild.

Edmund Burke

Contempt is not a thing to be despised.

Bruno Julliard

Unfortunately I think that the young people must feel they are held in contempt by the president and not heard by him.

Danny Green

I can't hold too much contempt for him, because naturally he would be disappointed.

Pope John

When the good of science or economic interests prevail over the good of the person, and ultimately of whole societies, environmental destruction is a sign of a real contempt for man.

Zadie Smith

Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.

Steven Pinker

My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control

Robert Ingersoll

There are some of his sayings which show him to have been a devout Jew, others that he wished to destroy Judaism, others showing that he held all people except the Jews in contempt and that the wished to save no others, others showing that he wished

Jules Feiffer

I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father