Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

Charles Stross

We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.

Brian Eno

The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement

Dave Franco

I don't know if this is an illusion but I would love to be able to take my card-throwing skills and be able to puncture a watermelon. Now I know I can take this question and say, "I would want to solve the economic problems in the world" - but I want to stick that card in that watermelon.

Jasmine Cresswell

dealing with a counter clerk at the phone company who had all the customer service skills of a homicidal sociopath on work release.

Alan Watts

But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.

Alan Blinder

And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.

Charlotte Bunch

Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

Eckhart Tolle

To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B - for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment.

Jon Corzine

Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.

Jonah Goldberg

Men are disgusting and, left to their own devices, they will affront the central tenets of human decency - and laugh uproariously at it

Denny Green

I don't think you can change that. That's part of his personality type. He's kind of a fun-loving guy. He takes affront if someone is trying to take it to the house on him. He just has to be careful with that because the more you get in there, the more you become kind of a target for one of those big guys.

Amy King

I find it very heartening that the Albany/Alexander community has organized so effectively and spoken out so strongly to what I consider to be an affront to these students' rights, ... The good news is we have local people who are acting.

Bryan Fuller

If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things.

Carla Ponte

whose continuing liberty is an affront to the authority of this council.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.

Aidan White

What we have seen is a brutal and violent assault on press freedom. It is an unspeakable affront to democracy when a government turns to violence to stifle the voice of its media critics.

Hilary Clinton

Kosovo is an affront to everything we stand for,