Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lawrence Durrell

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

Larry Clark

I learned how to skate, I couldn't do the tricks, but I could certainly skate fast enough. I could keep up with anybody and I could bomb hills and I could hide behind my camera.

Kylie Minogue

I could see myself as a glitter-hippie.

I like stepping into the future. Therefore, I look for doorknobs.

Sandra Cisneros

I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.

Samuel Johnson

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.

Samuel Johnson

Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.

Samuel Johnson

Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, - attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.

Samuel Johnson

How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

Samuel Johnson

Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.

Ronald Reagan

In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete.

Rodney Dangerfield

If I could have dinner with anyone who lived in history, it would depend on the restaurant.

Roberto Bolano

Literature + Illness = Illness

Robert Penn Warren

History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that.

Robert Penn Warren

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

Robert M. Pirsig

Cliches and stereotypes such as "beatnik" or "hippie" have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be. But one does not convert individuals into mass people with the simple coining of a mass term.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

Robert E. Lee

History teaches us hope.

Saul Williams

Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it

Saul Williams

What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.

Saul Williams

I have a very family-like connection to hip-hop, which is why it frustrates me so much.

Tom Morello

I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.

Tom Brown, Jr.

The place where you lose the trail is not necessarily the place where it ends.

Todd Akin

I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government.

Tina Fey

I think women dress for other women to let them know what their deal is. Because if women were only dressing for men, there would be nothing but Victoria's Secret. There would be no Dior.

Tina Fey

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.

Tim Kaine

I say we are climbing out of a ditch and we are climbing up.

Sam Farr

When I was in the California legislature in the '80s, the organic growers, who were sort of the small hippie farmers in those days, brought it to my attention that there were no regulations on organic labeling. In essence, anybody could just grow a thing any way they wanted and put 'organic' on it.

Russell Simmons

Hip-hop is such a wide statement of culture that everyone is not the same, and it's impossible to put it into one box.

Ronald Harwood

Easier to climb up, than to just hang on.

Romain Rolland

History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.

Ron Paul

This much is true: you have been lied to.

Ron Paul

The Federal Reserve System is nothing more than legalized counterfeit.