Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert McCullough

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

David S. Rose

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

Eiza Gonzalez

I'm happy and I'm focused on my work... it's incredible to be able to work with 20th Century Fox and to keep opening doors for Mexicans and Latins in the United States.

John Irving

I'm not a twentieth-century novelist, I'm not modern, and certainly not postmodern. I follow the form of the nineteenth-century novel; that was the century that produced the models of the form. I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst, and I'm not an intellectual.

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.

Octavio Paz

For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.

Twyla Tharp

There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism.

Mark Hyman

In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

There are many reasons our prayers may lack power. Sometimes they become routine. Our prayers become hollow when we say similar words in similar ways over and over so often that the words become more of a recitation than a communication.

Ian Paisley

is a hollow gesture, because we don't want words. We want actions.

Scott Williams

This is not a hollow gesture. This is an unprecedented release of industry material.

Dan Hicks

There's some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to the acoustic.

Chinese Proverbs

A vacant mind is open to all suggestions, as a hollow mountain returns all sounds

David Richard

You never say this is the make or break, but there were a lot of hollow promises last year. You can't go on promising and under-delivering, can you?.

Richard O'Brien

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

Thomas Hood

A hollow voice is all I have / But this I tell you plain, / Marry come up! - you marry, Ma'am, / And I'll come up again.

Mark Brazil

I feel better than I did when I was walking around Quail Hollow at the Wachovia Championship in May, but I don't think we're out of the woods.

Charles Dickens

And what about the cash, my existence's jewel?

Susan B. Anthony

Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.

Ted Cruz

Those who hate Israel hate America. Those who hate Jews hate Christians.

Jamie Zawinski

Convenient though it would be if it were true, Mozilla [Netscape 1.0] is not big because it's full of useless crap. Mozilla is big because your needs are big. Your needs are big because the Internet is big. There are lots of small, lean web browsers out there that, incidentally, do almost nothing useful. But being a shining jewel of perfection was not a goal when we wrote Mozilla.

Leonor Varela

I don't need jewels and cars. It's about the delicacy of the way I'm handled.

Elias Hicks

To the Jews only, and not to the Gentiles, was a Saviour promised.

Lauren Johnson

We have a real variety here and I think that is why residents like to come. This year there seemed to be more jewelry than anything else.

Lesley Ann Warren

I was terrified, terrified in 'Songwriter,' because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified.

Camille Pissarro

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!

Bodhidharma

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

Marianne Williamson

When I went to college in the 1970s, the Women's Liberation movement was all the buzz.

Abdullah Ocalan

Our movement is the liberation movement of the Turkish people,

Abdullah Ocalan

A society can never be free without women’s liberation

Atharva Veda

Contemplating and meditating on the 'real-self' accelerates this process of self-development and makes liberation possible.

Granth Sahib

They perform all sorts of rituals, but they do not obtain liberation through them. They wander around the countryside, and in love with duality, they are ruined.

Pico Iyer

As soon as I'm on the road, I see, often palpably, that I know nothing at all, which is always a great liberation.

Ian Smith

The legislation is so draconian it even surpasses Ian Smith's own legislation during the liberation struggle.

Susan Faludi

Women are enslaved by their own liberation.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

Agnes Repplier

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Charlie Chaplin

If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance.

Charles Sumner

Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.

Charles Dickens

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Charles Caleb Colton

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.