Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Goldwyn

I never liked you, and I always will.

Sophie Kinsella

People used to ask me for advice, and I'd say, 'Please, don't ask me!' Yes, I did economics at Oxford, but that's not the same as having a broad knowledge of personal finance

James C. Collins

Profit is like oxygen, food, water, and blood for the body; they are not the point of life, but without them, there is no life.

Jim Cooper

Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire.

Elon Musk

I realized that a methane-oxygen rocket engine could achieve a specific impulse greater than 380.

Evelyn Waugh

You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them

Fareed Zakaria

Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.

Germaine Greer

It's also an oxymoron because what we see is not real,

Gloria Steinem

It turns out that we literally don't empathize unless we're physically present - that the oxytocin, the famous "tend and befriend" hormone is not produced unless we're present with all five senses.

Nouriel Roubini

Having spent 10 years studying emerging markets, I know that you have patterns repeated over and over again. A bubble is like a fire which needs oxygen to continue... when you see there is no oxygen, things change.

Henry James

Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.

Henry James

...The peculiar air of Oxford-the air of liberty to care for the things of the mind assured and secured by machinery which is in itself a satisfaction to sense.

Orson Pratt

God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen

Joe Pantoliano

I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.

Neal Stephenson

For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and besides, Jupiter's is much prettier. You may not realize its advantages until you're trying to breathe liquid methane.

Joel Salatin

The wealth of any ecosystem is its perennials. The primal herbivore-predator-disturbance-rest dance is literally the breath and pulse of the earth. Grasses recycle oxygen far more efficiently than trees. The turnover is faster. Grass reaches out and turns solar energy into carbon. Tillage hyper-aerates the soil, burning out carbon. But because a plant creates bilateral symmetry at the soil horizon, it sloughs off root mass when the top gets chopped off.

Mao Zedong

Oxford shirts. Definitely more oxford shirts.

Madeleine L'Engle

I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe, the staff of my life. —Jane Gardiner

Lionel Blue

I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.

George MacDonald

There is no water in oxygen, no water in hydrogen: it comes bubbling fresh from the imagination of the living God, rushing from under the great white throne of the glacier. The very thought of it makes one gasp with an elemental joy no metaphysician can analyse.

Elizabeth Gilbert

When it comes to women, get your life together first. Put on your own oxygen mask first. Figure out who you are. Mature. And then go find somebody to share that life with.

Joseph Priestley

I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.

Kailash Kher

I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.

Kanye West

Clothing should be like food. There should never be a $5000 sweater. You know what should cost $5000? A car.

Kanye West

Okay, everyone please be completely quiet, because I can literally hear a whisper, and it’ll throw off my stream of consciousness, and when I get my stream of consciousness going that’s when I give the best, illest quotes. Literally, a whisper can throw it off.

Kanye West

Time is the only luxury. It's the only thing you can't get back. If you lose your luggage - I'm not gonna say the obvious brand of luggage that I'd normally say because I've got a meeting with them soon - if you lose your expensive luggage at the airport, you can get that back. You can't get the time back.

Kanye West

Beauty has been stolen from the people and is being sold back to them as luxury.

Kanye West

We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs.

John Charles Polanyi

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

Karl Marx

Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange, because in barter each commodity is still its own medium of exchange. But it cannot be its own or its own standard of comparison.

Jenny Lawson

One ox, two oxen. One fox, two foxen.

Leon Trotsky

Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.

Marilyn Ferguson

The person and society are yoked, like mind and body. Arguing which is more important is like debating whether oxygen or hydrogen is the more essential property of water.