Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brock Yates

At Car and Driver, we were convinced that the automobile, as we knew and loved it, was as dead as the passenger pigeon. Ralph Nader was at full cry, ringing his tocsin of automobile doom into the brains of the public, convincing them that the lump of chrome and iron in the driveway was as lethal as a dose of Strontium 90 or a blast from a Viet Cong AK-47.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

It is painful for me to see when criminal elements of all kinds fire from my weapon.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

The fact that people die because of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

I created a weapon to defend the borders of my motherland. It's not my fault that it's being used where it shouldn't be. The politicians are more to blame for this.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work - for example a lawnmower.

Janet Evanovich

Gotta protect the little dudes. I tried an AK-47, but it wouldn't fit under my seat. I like the Uzi better, anyway. It looks better with the dress. The AK seems too casual to me

Peter Norvig

My belief is that PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings.

Peter Norvig

Using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table.

Jason Wu

When I moved to America, I knew I wanted to be a designer. I never imagined one of my dresses would end up in the Smithsonian.

Talisa Soto

Dresses are beautiful, but I'm such a slacks or a jeans person. Whenever a woman has a slick suit or dress on, she looks sharp.

Diane von Furstenberg

It's the woman you should remember, not the dress, ever.

Diane von Furstenberg

Feel like a woman, wear a dress!

Louise Nurding

Growing up, I was never the kind of girl to dream about wedding dresses and pretty houses.

China Machado

Originally a stylist took terrible dresses and did everything she could to make them wonderful. Now, you create an image. It's much more specialized.

Charles Lamb

No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.

Britt Ekland

I'd rather kill myself than dress like Victoria Beckham in towering heels day after day.

Brian Molko

Dresses, I find, are impractical in social situations, but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage.

C. S. Lewis

Do not look sad. We shall meet soon again." "Please, Aslan", said Lucy,"what do you call soon?" "I call all times soon" said Aslan; and instantly he was vanished away.

C. S. Lewis

I daren't come and drink," said Jill. Then you will die of thirst," said the Lion. Oh dear!" said Jill, coming another step nearer."I suppose I must go and look for another stream then." There is no other stream," said the Lion.

Kelli White

We want people to think about today and tomorrow. It looks like you are.

Aaron Siskind

If you look very intensely and slowly things will happen that you never dreamed of before.

Alan K. Simpson

I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again. I'm an Alan Simpson Republican.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less.

Charles Spurgeon

Secularism teaches us that we ought to look to this world. Christianity teaches us that the best way to prepare for this world is to be fully prepared for the next.

David Quarmby

We've seen at least three theatres in difficulties and it looks as if they're closed, West End theatres. We've seen restaurants and pubs and all sort of visitor attractions 20 or 30 percent down.

Brian Eno

Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them,