Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aung San Suu Kyi

We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.

Albert Pike

All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid.

Desmond Tutu

The devastation wreaked by landmines is not only horrendous but immoral

Werner Herzog

There is a fascination about crime, which is understandable, but hardly anyone talks about the families of victims of violent crime and the devastation that is beyond the victim alone.

Edgar Wright

I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.

Andy Warhol

One person in the 60s fascinated me more than anybody I had ever known. And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love

Don DeLillo

Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.

Calista Flockhart

But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.

Chris Wedge

For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.

Francine Pascal

I always had a fascination with twins.

Fredric Jameson

The visual is essentially pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless fascination.

Joshua Lederberg

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

Paul Bettany

I still read the British papers, but I've never been a Royalist, ever. It's funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England.

Charles Dickens

My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.

Charles Sturt

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

Chris Christie

Quite frankly, we have seen liberal policies in cities like Chicago, like New York and others, have led to increased crime.

Cesare Beccaria

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

Louis Stokes

Our findings with reference to organized crime was that organized crime as an entity didn't participate in the assassination of the president. However, we were unable to preclude the possibility of individual members of organized crime having participated.

Lyndon Johnson

Where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.

Alan King

We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.

Adlai E. Stevenson

This the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the burglary, but the discovery of the burglar.

Fred Siegel

What he represents is that part of Giuliani's legacy that has become permanent, on crime and welfare,