Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clayton Christensen

Capitalists seem uninterested in capitalism, even as eager entrepreneurs can't get financing. Businesses and investors sound like the Ancient Mariner, who complained, 'Water, water everywhere - nor any drop to drink.'

Edward Fitzgerald

But still the Vine her ancient Ruby yields, / And still a Garden by the Water blows.

They've been stuck at (Palm OS Garnet) for two-plus years. It's a pretty ancient operating system that can't handle multitasking, can't handle protected memory, and doesn't have great security, all the things that Cobalt was supposed to deliver.

And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: / Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.

James Marsters

Anne Rice really doesn't explore vampires as hideous monsters of the night, they're ancient creatures with a heart. And they want to be loved and they want connections just like we do.

Earnings are ancient history. The first quarter is under our belt. The market is now looking to the fourth quarter and ahead.

Raymond Moody

Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in everyday thought and language, as well as in the literature of many cultures and many ages. It was apparently quite common even in the time of the ancient Greeks.

Karl Marx

Constant revolutionizing of production distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat? / With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

We see everything from sand dunes covered with frost, water ice clouds hanging over volcanoes and ancient craters being eroded by high winds.

Patrick Stump

Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of enigmatic short stories. It's a strange feeling to laugh at a joke written by someone in the 4th century B.C.

Michael Barrett

This one should be lots of fun, ... especially hosted by Paul Woodiel, a man with an inquisitive musical spirit. Paul is a classical and theatrical performer and an expert in ancient and traditional fiddle music. Every year, Paul and I tackle another idea, after which Paul finds the musicians and tells the story to his eager audience.

This vast piece of lyric theater, with its attempted fusion of music and ancient drama, has remained between the pages of musical encyclopedias. Often enough, that is where such enterprises ought to stay.

To have faith is to be sure of the things we hope for, to be certain of the things we cannot see. It was by their faith that people of ancient times won God's approval. (Hebrews 11:1-2)

The Oriental Institute has played a key role in the exploration of ancient Nubia. As early as 1905, James Henry Breasted, the founder of the institute, led two expeditions to Nubia, where he was one of the first modern researchers to document the monuments, sites and inscriptions of this ancient civilization.

Elaine Pagels

These ancient stories in religion speak to our desire. But they move us toward hope.

The rovers have proven their value with major discoveries about ancient watery environments on Mars that might have harbored life,

Martin Filler

The role of the architect as artist is an ancient one, but it was de-emphasized with the rise of modernism, which rejected the drawing-based Beaux-Arts tradition in favor of a more technocratic approach.

Charles Godfrey Leland

It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride.

The stigma of St. Pete as a retirement community is just so long gone. That old stereotype is ancient history. We want that thing buried.

Tamils all over the world have a sense of belonging to the world itself, but our ancient roots come from India. I would like to explore India. I will keep coming back. This is the closest I can get to home.

Jan Morris

Its origins are ancient but it burgeons with brash modernity, and it lounges upon its delectable shore, halfway between the Israelis and the Syrians, in a posture that no such city, at such a latitude, in such a moment of history, has any reasonable excuse for assuming.

Jade Jagger

Daggers have such beautiful, functional shapes, and decorating them is an ancient tradition.

It's actually a very ancient antiviral pathway, because it is found in animals and plants. We're just making sure it's turned on.

ACADEME, n. An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught.

Oscar Hammerstein

It's a very ancient saying, But a true and honest thought, That if you become a teacher, By your pupils you'll be taught

Mike Modano

It's ancient history. It is what it is. It's been two years since that series. We've been looking forward to just the chance to get back in the playoffs and kind of put something together that we think could be fun and rewarding for everybody.

It's ancient history and we move on, ... From what I've heard, Freddy had a good day of training and he's looking forward to this weekend.

It looks as if an ancient group is gathered around a fire. There's an eclipse. It's rather mystical.

It's like the spiders are sharing an ancient secret with me, and that's why I'm going to spend the rest of my life studying spider silk.

A very meaningful thing you can do is bring your son to have his bar mitzvah at the Western Wall. That's where our ancient relatives came from.

Eric Idle

As long as there are innocent nickels to be made from the gullible, Python-starved public, I shall be out there dressed in silly frocks and singing filthy lyrics. I'm coming your way in search of ancient dollars.

Jill Tarter

As I was leaving graduate school in 1974, I was recruited to join a fledgling SETI project at the Hat Creek Observatory in California, mainly because I knew how to program an ancient PDP8/S computer that had been donated to the project.