Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Joubert

The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

K'naan

Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

Murray Rothbard

Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power.

Molly Ivins

Of course, it has never paid much.

Milton Berle

Who says we didn't have controversial subjects on TV back in my time? Remember Bonanza? It was about three guys in high heels living together

Milton Berle

Committee - a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.

Milton Berle

The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.

Milton Friedman

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

H. G. Wells

It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.

H. L. Mencken

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.

Guillermo del Toro

I think that in the past, in the '50s and '60s, after the existentialists and beatniks and hippie movements, the big deal was, Don't sell out. We live in a society that by virtue of the speed we communicate and sell, everything sells. The danger is buying in; that your concern becomes success, rather than fulfillment. They're two different beasts, and my feeling is that you should seek fulfillment. You should not measure your worth in how much you have or how popular you are, but how happy you are with what you do.

Greg Jackson

I wanted to help people. I was raised by Quaker hippies... True happiness comes from helping others, that's what was pounded in my head from day one... So that began my teaching journey.

The history of one is the history of all.

George Herbert

Praise a hill, but keepe below.

Geoffrey Ward

History can't tell us. Each generation must define itself.

Geoffrey Ward

Journalism is merely history's first draft.

Jessica Simpson

Is this chicken or is this fish?

Jessica Simpson

I'm not anorexic. I'm from Texas. Are there people from Texas that are anorexic? I've never heard of one. And that includes me.

Jerry Bridges

God’s love to us cannot fail any more than His love to Christ can fail.

Jerry Bridges

God in His love always wills what is best for us. In His wisdom He always knows what is best, and in His sovereignty He has the power to bring it about.

Jean Ziegler

Profit maximization is the murderous strategy of global corporation hierarchies

Jeane Kirkpatrick

History is a better guide than good intentions.

Jeanne Moreau

My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?

Jean Nouvel

My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical references. My work deals with what is happening now—our techniques and materials, what we are capable of doing today.

Gertrude Stein

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

I chose English-speaking and English-thinking people to take decisions for Hindi programmes. It was a mistake.

I chipped in on No. 9. I hit a poor iron shot to the right and chipped it in for birdie. That kind of kept my round going. Stuff like that is nice to keep a round going.

Andy Reid

I don't necessarily want him to get hit there again, but if needed, he will run,

Julie Klausner

I don't make money doing my podcast. I've learned that people want to hire creative people who are already doing something when they approach them.

Jerome Williams

I don't like that he got a hit off me, ... I told him when I was at Fresno, 'Just keep pitching like you're pitching and you'll be successful for a long time.'

Shawnee Smith

I don't like to see a scary image because it sticks in my mind. Which is maybe why I get hired to do the scary movies because I'm truly scared and upset.

Collin puts himself in the right position at the right time.