Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 Eno

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

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.

Brian K. Vaughan

Reef aquariums are definitely the pinnacle of the hobby.

Edward Abbey

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

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.

Benjamin Tucker

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

Jackie Collins

Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.

Alan Bradley

Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.

Camille Paglia

[Sarah] Palin is solidifying her status as a bona fide American cultural heroine.

Caspar Weinberger

We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.

Charley Reese

Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.

Charles Krauthammer

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.

Billy Joel

I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.

Dean Acheson

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

David Ricardo

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

David Hume

Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

Al Ries

The crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.

Charles Baudelaire

Strangeness is an ingredient necessary in beauty.

Charles Baudelaire

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Jane Hamilton

I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.

Jeremy Taylor

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

Adolph Green

As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last.

Alice Waters

Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients.

Alphonse Karr

Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.

Jo Brand

I'm a terrible sort of non-fussy eater, really. I don't like posh food very much, and the more ingredients something's got in it, the less I tend to like it.