Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander McCall Smith

The wider your readership, the greater the chances of offending your readers.

Alice Walker

Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerned about offending people.

Rick Friesen

We research that, and if we didn't run it we think we'd be offending those viewers.

Benjamin Franklin

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

Mike Scully

I think if you're not offending somebody somewhere, then your show is probably just very bland and boring.

Billy Graham

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.

William Shakespeare

By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if me my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

I was raised a Catholic, so I can even feel a little, you know, embarrassed or guilty if I'm really offending people's sensibilities. To a degree.

Ken Curtis

I'm really proud ofGunsmoke. We put on a good show every week-one that families could all watch together without offending anyone.

Richard Greene

LBT pushes the state of the art in telescope performance, and it is a tremendous honor to be named the director. I'm excited by the challenge of completing the ambitious vision and satisfying the partners' scientific aspirations for this powerful, path-finding telescope.

Jack Greenberg

McDonald's is proud of the tangible difference we have made for the environment in just 10 years. As we head into the new century, McDonald's will continue to set new, ambitious targets for environmental progress.

Doug Scofield

No, not really. Even with this ambitious schedule, there is plenty of time to do other things. We just want to do it early and often and around the state.

Jacques Diouf

None will reach the more ambitious (1996) World Food Summit goal of halving the number of hungry people.

Chris Evert

I'm not an overly ambitious person; I don't feel like I have to excel.

Rowan Woods

On one level it is quite an ambitious sprawling narrative.

Michael Learned

I got married very young and put my career on the back burner for the most part because that's what you did in those days. I've never been a pushy, ambitious type of person anyway.

Scott Turow

I'm an ambitious person, and Harvard makes me feel successful, just having gotten in here. That's the ugly side of why I'm proud of being at Harvard Law School. Another reason is because there's a spirit of serious intellectual endeavor here.

Guus Hiddink

I'm an ambitious coach and I want to be successful here in Russia. There is a lot of technical potential within Russia's national team and if the players are aware of their potential I think they can increase their level.

Naomi Klein

The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.

Charlotte Mary Yonge

A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility.

E. M. Forster

Are not beauty and delicacy the same?

Kate Winslet

Foie gras is sold as an expensive delicacy in some restaurants and shops. But no one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ducks and geese who are abused and killed to make it.

Clement Freud

Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Delicacy in woman is strength.

Caleb Spencer

Everyone here just grew up with Spam. It is a delicacy here. It's like steak.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.