Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Mitchell

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

David Korten

An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.

Dave Barry

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

Arnold J. Toynbee

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead.

Antony Beevor

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

Benjamin Franklin

A Republic, if you can keep it.

Cassie Steele

I like mythology - anything historical.

Cass Sunstein

Probably, if we looked at Da Vinci or Michelangelo with care, we'd see a historical particularity that the work is not treated as having. It's certainly true of Shakespeare.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.

Zac Goldsmith

I can't be bought. I don't need to be bought. I'm not a careerist. I don't need to have a career in politics. I'm in a very, very luxurious position, but I am in a position of strength.

Erin O'Connor

Water - I drink gallons of it! You can use the most luxurious skincare products in the world, but they won't work as well if you do not hydrate from inside.

Ban Ki-moon

The U.N. might not be the most luxurious place to work, but it certainly is one of the most important places in the world.

Charles Dickens

Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.

Edward Lear

What will happen to me, as the oyster said when he very inadvertently swallowed the gooseberry bush, nobody can tell.

Edward Lear

I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back.

Bobby Jindal

Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total.

Barbara Walters

Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms.

William Shakespeare

I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool.

William Shakespeare

Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.

Carol Ann Duffy

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

Rudy Clay

I think Marquette Park is one of our pearls in an oyster that we need to shine up.

Charles Dudley Warner

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

Charles Spurgeon

God works, and therefore we work; God is with- us, and therefore we are with God, and stand on His side.

Chloe Grace Moretz

An actor always goes to the safe side.

Dave Gahan

Vocally, I really like going into the darker side of myself.

Madeleine Albright

There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.

Barry Commoner

No action is without its side effects.

Derek Bailey

I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.

Edwin Markham

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

Charlie Ergen

The world is changing.... I don't, as a consumer, want advertising that's not relevant. If we're going to take a side let's take the side of the consumer,

David Bailey

All that Swinging Sixties nonsense, we all thought it was passT at the time.

Ai Weiwei

Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your throat.

Douglas Adams

In the stillness, a fly would not have dared clear it's throat.

George Herbert

A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.

Jeanette Winterson

Their throats were bare for God.

Mahatma Gandhi

Go for the throat. If you cant, go for the nads.

Ted Hughes

The gash in its throat was shocking, but not pathetic.

Edith Wharton

Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress.

Charles Spurgeon

When preaching and private talk are not available, you need to have a tract ready.Get good striking tracts, or none at all. But a touching gospel tract may be the seed of eternal life. Therefore, do not go out without your tracts.

Stacey Hallahan

You'll be touching it or combing it, and it'll come out in pieces.

Jewel

If someone is willing to help you understand your own worth when you're vulnerable, that's a very touching thing. It makes you want to help other people.

Bob Ross

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

Anne Lamott

There is nothing more touching to me then a family picture where everyone is trying to look his or her best, but you can see what a mess they all really are.

Christopher Judge

A lot of times, as an actor, especially a TV or film actor, you don't get a lot of interaction, or you don't get the feeling you are actually touching someone, or someone actually cares about what you do.

Ludwig von Mises

As soon as we surrender the principle that the state should not interfere in any questions touching on the individuals mode of life, we end by regulating and restricting the latter down to the smallest details.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus.