Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harold Pinter

I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.

James Broughton

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.

Jalen Rose

For me, Duke was personal. I hated Duke. And I hated everything I felt Duke stood for. Schools like Duke didn't recruit players like me. I felt like they only recruited black players that were Uncle Toms.

Jalen Rose

I Hated Duke. I Felt Like They Only Recruited Black Players That Were Uncle Toms.

Jaime Lerner

A city is like a family portrait - you don't tear it up if you don't like your uncle's nose.

Jacques Delors

Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.

Jacqueline Woodson

In all your getting, get understanding.

Jackie Evancho

It's interesting because what I do and what I sing is, to other people, pretty unique. I feel I'm creating my own path... and I'm working on growing as a performer.

Jack White

I have very little interest in the bottom line or signing artists to help make the label profit. That's a lucky, unique position to be in, but it all comes out in the wash.

James Buchanan

The course of events is so rapidly hastening forward that the emergency may soon arise when you may be called upon to decide the momentous question whether you possess the power by force of arms to compel a State to remain in the Union

J. William Fulbright

The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.

J. R. R. Tolkien

If you're referring to the incident with the Dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Let the unseen days be. Today is more than enough.

Isaac Asimov

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

Immanuel Kant

Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

Elton John

As Elton John, my days on pop radio are over, and I know that and I accept it and I'm not unhappy about it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We like to read others but we do not like to be read.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.

Jeff Buckley

When all of this music sounds like you know what you want to say, then it will have been of all worth, ever. You will be something complete unto yourself, present and unique.

Jeff Bezos

You want to look at what other companies are doing. It's very important not to be hermetically sealed. But you don't want to look at it as if, 'OK, we're going to copy that.' You want to look at it and say, 'That's very interesting. What can we be inspired to do as a result of that?' And then put your own unique twist on it.

Jeff Bezos

We're building a unique global platform...In the last 18 months we found that sellers and partners are interested in complementing their online and offline businesses with Amazon's platform

Jean-Paul Sartre

Abjection is a methodological conversion, like Cartesian doubt and Husserlian epoche: it establishes the world as a closed system which consciousness regards from without, in the manner of divine understanding

Georges Cuvier

It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected.

Georges Bernanos

...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.

Georges Braque

In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.

George Sand

The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.

George Sand

Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.

George Saunders

I've found that my first drafts are not so special. But the more I work on them, the better they get. They are more unique and defensible.

Jefferson Davis

God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union.

Jeff Ross

My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.