Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pope Benedict

Whenever totalitarian ideology crushes man underfoot, all humanity is seriously threatened.

Alan Lomax

We now have cultural machines so powerful that one singer can reach everybody in the world, and make all the other singers feel inferior because they're not like him. Once that gets started, he gets backed by so much cash and so much power that he becomes a monstrous invader from outer space, crushing the life out of all the other human possibilities. My life has been devoted to opposing that tendency.

Charlotte Bronte

I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest - a mighty home, not a terror and an abyss. Besides, with this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low. I live in calm, looking to the end.

Charles Sumner

War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.

Charles de Gaulle

War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny .. .Time and time again it has destroyed all ordered living, devastated hope, and put the prophets to death.

Charles Caleb Colton

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

Charles Dickens

Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.

Charles Dickens

Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every moment with a gentle second stroke, as though it would check old Time, and have him stay his pace in pity, but measured it with one sledge-hammer beat, as if its business were to crush the seconds as they came trooping on, and remorselessly to clear a path before the Day of Judgment.

Diablo Cody

I'm glad that as a 33-year-old working mother, I can still choose to wear a Hello Kitty T-shirt or stay up late scrolling through the Twitter feed of my junior-high crush.

Brian Eno

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.

Don Cheadle

I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).

David Anders

TV has been very good to me, and I hope I've been good to it, but I also love film.

Dave Chappelle

I don't care if I ever work in TV again.

Bruno Heller

You can't be someone you're not on TV. You can in movies, but not on TV because you can't hide.

Al Hirt

I've been glued to the TV. I am absolutely devastated.

Edward Ruscha

I don't watch TV, so I feel like I'm left out of the American fabric or something.

Bruce Willis

Now I know what a TV dinner feels like.

Casey Abrams

In my spare time I like watching TV, laying on the couch, just chillin'.

David Pogue

I travel a ridiculous amount, so I've thought a lot about, and spent a lot of time refining, what I carry and how I carry it.

Jane Austen

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

Barbara Kingsolver

I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.

Edward Abbey

Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once.

Bear Grylls

I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.

Lord Shaftesbury

Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule.

Laura Bush

I think it's ridiculous. It's a ridiculous comment, that's what I think.

Napoleon Bonaparte

From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.

Donald Judd

If a chair or a building is not functional … it is ridiculous.