Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benoit Mandelbrot

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Bruce Feiler

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

Brandon Sanderson

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Rosalind Wiseman

I talk to teens everyday about topics that are often extraordinarily uncomfortable.

Curtis Sittenfeld

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

John Jay Hooker

If you are a friend of the Constitution as I am, I hope you will consider engaging me in the topics of my posts whether you agree or disagree with my position on a particular subject.

Herman Melville

Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores;let us waive it, with the one only thought, that if they can get here, they have God's right to come.

George Stigler

In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics.

Ezra Pound

There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.

Glenn Close

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness

Paul Lynde

Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.

Harlan Coben

I would rather raise certain topics and maybe let you ruminate on them. I'm not big on answering them.

Ramez Naam

Whatever my current beliefs are, on any topic, they're all open to being changed by the right facts and the right evidence.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.

Laurence J. Peter

Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.

Henry Rollins

I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.

Richelle Mead

Adrian was easily distractible by wacky topics and shiny objects.

William Henry Harrison

To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.