Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seamus Heaney

But the thing uttered by the speaker I strain towards is still not quite the story of what is going on; it is more reflexive than that, because as a poet I am in fact straining towards a strain, seeking repose in the stability conferred by a musically satisfying order of sounds.

Jonathan Gross

Work ethic is something that's conferred by example. Kids are much smarter than we give them credit for; it's about what they see.

Samuel Freeman Miller

Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.

Samuel Freeman Miller

Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given to the legislative body.

Eleanor Catton

Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me to be treated ordinarily.

Emily Dickinson

Superiority to fateIs difficult to learn.'Tis not conferred by anyBut possible to earn.

Sara Sheridan

It's interesting that, given our culture has so many words that refer to women in a truly derogatory fashion, it's 'lady' - a term that has conferred social respect on our gender for over a thousand years - that has women up in arms.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

SCARIFICATION, n. A form of penance practised by the mediaeval pious. The rite was performed, sometimes with a knife, sometimes with a hot iron, but always, says Arsenius Asceticus, acceptably if the penitent spared himself no pain nor harmless disfigurement. Scarification, with other crude penances, has now been superseded by benefaction. The founding of a library or endowment of a university is said to yield to the penitent a sharper and more lasting pain than is conferred by the knife or iron, and is therefore a surer means of grace. There are, however, two grave objections to it as a penitential method: the good that it does and the taint of justice.

Alan Alda

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

Brian Trehearne

The poetry was the man, the man was the poetry.

Benjamin Netanyahu

I'm not naturally manipulative.

David Hume

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

Edward Everett

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

Ed Koch

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Benjamin Franklin

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.

Thom Mayne

I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.

Oscar Lua

I wouldn't be comfortable. I prefer the laid-back, California-beach style.

Paul DePodesta

We're probably going to have to play it by ear. That's not necessarily the preferable way to go. But it's not something where we have a choice.

Kevin Reilly

We take the long view together in the partnership. Would he prefer that ('Law & Order') not move? Probably.

Richard Ayoade

I actually prefer night shoots to days. I prefer being up. It's easier for me. I'm more of a night person.

Kaley Cuoco

I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.

Mark Thompson

Our preference would be to have a seven-day recovery.

Bud Grebey

Our strong preference is to have our striking workers return to work.

Joe Marshall

Some of us would prefer to run in the afternoon, actually. But we won't get into that here, will we darling?

Eva Mendes

I have a cosmetics line in Walgreens. It's exclusively at Walgreens.It's called Circa and it's basically prestige cosmetics that are at drug-store prices.