Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lorraine Toussaint

I find I often do my best work when I'm not attached to the outcome of the audition.

Mariella Frostrup

Whenever the party-girl tag gets attached to my name, it makes me want to snort with derision.

Lev Grossman

Growing up in the '70s and '80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so punished and exiled for being devoted to these things.

Honore de

To our shame a woman is never so much attached to us as when we suffer

Keith Morris

We've never done that. The whole purpose is to have it attached to the buildings so the customer can walk directly from the tire bay to the store, do their shopping and then check out on the way to get their car without ever having to leave the building.

Robert Palmer

My parents were part of a crowd that was attached to all the different navies stationed in Malta. When they would have parties in each other's houses, I would get taken along, and that's where I heard all this great music. I didn't distinguish particular styles; it was all music to me.

Kenko Yoshida

A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.

Marcus Hahnemann

Whenever you think you're staying somewhere, you're gone. But I do feel attached to Reading. This is where I made a name for myself, and this is where I want stay.

John Fairlie

Most of us are attached at the hip to what we play. We would never leave without it.

Charles Caleb Colton

A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest.

Alan Bennett

I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

John Wilson

We want to send a very strong message ... this is not what we expect out of civilized society, ... We're going to make an example of somebody.

David Mitchell

Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.

David Graeber

It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.

David Suzuki

More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization.

Cesare Pavese

Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always.

Dennis Hopper

To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.

Ed Cunningham

You can always go back and reconstruct stuff in a documentary, but it's so much cooler when you're there as it happens.

John Barth

Mainly it's the public documents of the defendants that will prove the case.

Jamie Bell

I love documentaries. It's actually my favorite medium of film.

Bryan Cox

She later recanted. It was investigated and documented that she lied.

Auguste Rodin

Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature

Orrin Hatch

We held some 24 hearings on this issue, and not one time have they been able to document an abuse,

Des Browne

With the enhancements to the security of the passport document itself that biometric technology will bring, it is time to make equivalent enhancements to the process of establishing identity before issuing passports.

Gretchen Rubin

For quotes, I have one document for general quotes; the other for happiness-related quotes, which I use for the 'Moment of Happiness,' my daily emails of happiness quotes.

David Cameron

We're in a very different era now. The style then was right for then, and a new style is needed for now.

Harvey Kushner

When you think of the coordination this took, it's historic. When you think of the measures that will have to be put into place to ratchet up security in the United States, it's monumental. This opens up a new era in the history of terrorism.

Cheryl Strayed

He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life.

Linton Brooks

We're standing at the threshold of a new era in high-performance computing.

Mikhail Gorbachev

The pope did everything possible to help humanity out of its era of hate.

Brian Eno

Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future.

Katie McGrath

If I could have picked an era to have lived, I think I would've loved to have been one of Louis XIV's mistresses. They were so fantastic and aristocratic, and they had so much power. And he was such a renaissance man. I think I would've fit into that nicely.

Mike Gascoyne

We had a very successful test with the TF105B, which features a different front suspension from the TF105, ... We had a problem with the power steering at the previous test, but here at Silverstone we were able to eradicate it.

B. Carroll Reece

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

Charles Caleb Colton

With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence with posterity, who has shown himself superior to the particular and predominant error of his own times; who, like the peak of Teneriffe, has hailed the intellectual sun before its beams have reached the horizon of common minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.

Alan Paton

Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.

Alan Moore

When the persecution of an individual who has exposed an evil is pursued so ruthlessly and yet the evil itself is studiedly ignored, all of us know that there is something very wrong with the way that our society is conducting itself. And if we do not protest in the strongest terms about what is being done in our name, then we become complicit.

Alan Guth

Despite its name, the big bang theory is not really a theory of a bang at all. It is really only a theory of the aftermath of a bang.

Alan Bullock

Bullock by name, and Bullock by nature.

Al Ries

Only brand names register in the mind... What you should generally do is take a regular word and use it out of context to connote the primary attribute of your brand.

Al Sharpton

Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.

Al Jarreau

Jazz brought this sense of democracy where four guys come together and your name may be on the marquee, but in this moment, when you're the soloist, it's you, and we follow you. We follow you.

Charles Dickens

I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you!

David Shapiro

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the nation and determined to act with malice toward its inhabitants by suppressing their rights and enabling its enemies to prosper in their attempts to destroy it, must be confronted, a rational response for the nation is to encumber itself no more with such a president and reject his authority and the acolytes who carry out his wishes.

David McCullough

You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.

David Korten

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

Catherine Ashton

In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.

Madeleine Albright

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.

Ai Weiwei

For all the tough talk about China during the presidential debates, Romney and Obama evaded any mention of China's suspect human rights record, corruption, and rule of law. By not tackling these controversial topics, the candidates are protecting a strategic partnership with China at the expense of essential human values and beliefs.

Ai Weiwei

Liberty is about our rights to question everything.

Bob Menendez

We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.