Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Eno

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

Dave Barry

Stuffwise we are not a lean operation. We're the kind of people who, if we were deciding what absolute minimum essential items we'd need to carry in our backpacks for the final, treacherous ascent to the summit of Mount Everest, would take along aquarium filters, just in case.

Brian K. Vaughan

Reef aquariums are definitely the pinnacle of the hobby.

Benjamin Tucker

But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

Edward Abbey

The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.

Bridget Riley

As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.

Adolf Hitler

The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

Andre Malraux

To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.

Marcy Kaptur

People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Agnes Repplier

the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Wherever the Word comes without power its essential content is missed.

Edmund Burke

Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is, however, another and a higher economy. Economy is a distinctive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection.

Eli Roth

Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.

Tom Wolfe

Everyone is taught the essentials of writing for at least 13 years, maybe more if they go to college. Nobody is taught music or tap dancing that way.

David Ricardo

Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Only what is essential must be said.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

For me, temperance is essential to good work.

Brennan Manning

There is an essential connection between experiencing God, loving God, and trusting God. You will trust God only as much as you love him. And you will love him to the extent you have touched him, rather that he has touched you.