Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Moore

Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and we all thought that comics would be greatly improved if everything was a bit psychedelic like Jim Steranko.

Alain Robert

In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The Cross is not responsible for God's love; rather it was His love that conceived the Cross.

We want to sure that if that storm hits South Carolina, people will have ample time to get out of its way.

Chip Conley

Someone could be amazing at what they do, but if you don't like them, why bother hiring them?

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

Chester W. Nimitz

Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.

Dave Chappelle

The higher up I went, the less happy I was.

David Sedaris

Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.

David McCullough

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David McCullough

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

David Mitchell

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

David Korten

An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.

David Cross

I'd say 95 percent of my audience was white. They were mostly kind of older hipster folks like myself.

Dave Barry

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

Dave Barry

If women were in charge of all the world's nations, there would be sincerely believe this - no military conflicts, and when there WAS a military conflict, everybody involved would feel just awful and there would soon be a high-level exchange of notes written on greeting cards with flowers on the front, followed by a Peace Luncheon

David Quammen

Results "are no good unless they answer (or can be made to seem to answer, or can be twisted and wrenched and piled into odd shapes until they hint at being somehow perhaps on the verge or answering) a question that someone might conceivably want asked."

C. Wright Mills

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

C. Wright Mills

History is the shank of the social sciences.

Cesare Pavese

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

Cary Grant

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

Camille Paglia

There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders.

Caitlin Moran

I was brought up in a kind of, you know, very hippie, liberal family. And it was just always automatically assumed that men and women were equal and indeed superior.

C.J. Wilson

I can't be one of those hipster guys with a beard when I have a hair campaign. I strive to look a little bit more... all-American.

C. L. R. James

Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity.

Shinzo Abe

The other side has not responded to any of our requests regarding the abduction issue, so it is highly regrettable.

The potential profits are so high there's a win-at-any-cost mentality.

The person knew where he was sitting and positioned himself perfectly.

Mark Thompson

The perception is that it's too high end, too futuristic, but I think we will see prices and use models to support it.

The people who pay the highest income tax are also the most mobile. They simply leave North Carolina.

Catherine Keener

The people who make those movies tend to be studios, because they need a lot of money to do it, and those people don't hire me.

We are always trying to look for unique ideas, and we wanted something new for New York. We thought that hey, it's an island, let's do something on the water...New Yorkers have pretty high expectations.