Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Sheffield

Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse; whether we're talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade's non-teen culture has no staying power at all.

Rig Veda

One should respect his motherland, his culture and his mother tongue because they are givers of happiness.

John Gallagher

One very important secondary set of skills people learn is how to manage a large-scale project with a globally distributed team, usually made up of people from different cultures and different countries,

Pamela Satran

Now there are thousands of people with those names that wouldn't exist if it hadn't been for them. This generation of parents is looking to get away from cookie-cutter stuff, and our culture of celebrities is supporting that.

Dennis Prager

Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another.

Edgar Mitchell

The transcendent experience is common to every culture in the world.

Leonard Mlodinow

French culture is known for many great attributes, some of which probably have nothing to do with food, wine, and romance.

Dominic West

Even though I'm English, I've all my life been heavily exposed to American television and culture in general.

Gunther Grass

Only the Social Democrats will truly defend the culture of the German people.

Robert M. La Follette

In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Some of the happiest people I know have none of the things the world insists are necessary for satisfaction and joy.

Charles de Montesquieu

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.

Issa Rae

'Awkward Black Girl' is spreading to all the right people because of word of mouth and social networks. I'm so grateful.

Dennis Potter

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.

Ray Kroc

If any of my competitors were drowning, I'd stick a hose in their mouth

David Bowie

There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all.

David Bowie

Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.

Natalie Maines

I'm not out looking for a cause. They sort of find me or find my heart. But sure, there's always time for that. My big mouth can talk all the time.

Harry Crosby

I have invited our little seamstress to take her thread and needle and sew our two mouths together.

Albert Einstein

X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Mark Billingham

The problem with being a writer is that some readers tend to think that anything that comes out of a character's mouth is you talking.

Shannon Edge

She always opens it up to questions, comments, suggestions.

Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple opens doors for Shirley Temple Black.

Stephen Frears

When I go and teach, it sort of opens me up in some way. And when you're open, you're more receptive.

Dee Brown

When we come out and he plays aggressive, that opens it up for other players. When he plays like that, the sky's the limit.

Lyle Kessler

As for Philadelphia, you know what it is like? Sink holes. You stand in the earth and it opens up and you're sucked down. I'm never going to escape Philadelphia.

Peter Bart

Or, if it opens on three screens, it's going to stay on those three screens for much of the summer. He's not going to be pushed around like most studios are pushed around.

Mike Mason

We welcome that. Then it opens things up for our other talented receivers.

Steve Cohn

Until he opens up, there's nothing we can do.

David Oliver

Even if he doesn't get open, he opens something else up,

Francis G. Slay

Violence is not a constitutionally protected right. Damaging property is not a constitutionally protected right; inciting violence is not a constitutionally protected right.

Mimi Kennedy

From casting to counting, our votes must be better protected in all voting systems.

Thomas Haden Church

I made a comfortable living for several years. I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom.

JoAnn Carrin

He just wants to make sure the wetlands are as protected as they can be.

Todd Blythe

If we would have protected the ball, it would have been a different outcome.

David Henderson

The public has to be protected from these unscrupulous practices.

Christie Brinkley

When I started modeling, I was told to tan, but I always protected my face.

Randall Howard

We want SAA, but we need to make sure our workers are protected and the strike is legal.

Bryan Brown

That's because they took out everything that protected us.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Religion can reform a person’s life, but it can never transform him. Only the Holy Spirit can transform!

Jin Renqing

The reform also contributed to the resolving of the imbalance development of the world economy,

Enrique Pena Nieto

There have been no voices against the structural reforms that I have proposed, especially the energy reform.

Susan B. Anthony

Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

Barbara Mikulski

There was a whole group that really welcomed me: George Mitchell was one, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, the reformers were really delighted to see me. So if you were one of those squeaky clean, shiny bright, let's reform the world, you were very glad to see Barb Mikulski, and George Mitchell was in that category.

Tomoko Fujii

He hasn't done any reforms yet, so they would like to see the results.

W. C. Fields

Go back to reform school, you little nose-picker!

Alexander Hamilton

Wherever indeed a right of property is infringed for the general good, if the nature of the case admits of compensation, it ought to be made; but if compensation be impracticable, that impracticability ought to be an obstacle to a clearly essential reform.

Abraham Verghese

The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

Robert Osborne

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Jerry Costello

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Scott Ellis

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Anwar Robinson

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Rick DiPietro

Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you play in this event, but at the end of the day, it's still the same game.

Phil Lesh

Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.

Denise Bottcher

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.

Camille Paglia

The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.

Charles Rosen

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

Edith Wharton

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

Carlos Fuentes

There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.

Edmund Burke

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Boozoo Chavis

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.

Auguste Comte

The dead govern the living.

Brian King

We try to keep the regulations down. That's an A.T. tradition as much as anything else.

Allan Bloom

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.