Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert B. Parker

Being a professor and working are not the same thing. The academic community is composed largely of nitwits. If I may generalize. People who don't know very much about what matters very much, who view life through literature rather than the other way around.

Robert Anton Wilson

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

Richard M. Nixon

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

Richard Gere

It's not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it's not. The Chinese clearly are using the Olympics to recreate how they are viewed in the world and how they view themselves.

Robert Dallek

As someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with most of the 20th century presidents, I have often thought that their accomplishments have little staying power in shaping popular views of their leadership.

Rob Bell

People have a view of a God who is terrible that they can't even imagine being loving or wanting anything to do with.

Richard Rogers

This is a pivotal time for urban regeneration. We must take a long term view.

Richard Rohr

Every viewpoint is a view from a point.

Tupac Shakur

Don't look back unless it's a good view.

Trevor Nunn

In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision.

Trevor Noah

Our go-to source is no longer dictated by a small group of cable news outlets. We have to expand our view. Sometimes, a story is made and breaks on Twitter. We have to find a way to react to that, to consume and also disseminate the information from Twitter, which is not an easy thing to do.

Trevor Noah

Progression, in my opinion, is often identifying shortcomings - whether it's views or the things you're doing in your life, your relationships - and trying to find the places where you improve on those.

Van Wyck Brooks

Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

Ulrich Beck

And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view.

Umberto Eco

One of the problems I have always discussed is the refusal to distinguish between comment and fact. The newspaper wraps every fact into a comment. It is impossible to give mere fact without establishing point of view.

Umberto Eco

I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote "I am that I am," for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma, inside the quotation marks or outside.

Richard Dawkins

What is interesting about the scientific world view is that it is true, inspiring, remarkable and that it unites a whole lot of phenomena under a single heading.

Roger Ailes

Most of the media bullshit you about who they are. We don’t. We’re not programming to conservatives, we’re just not eliminating their point of view.

Sam Abell

I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.

Sade Adu

People are so used to having their lives filmed, they're not even conscious of having cameras around. I still have that sort of suspicion when a camera comes out. I view it as a thing to fear.

Ryan Adams

It's hard to view myself sometimes as even in the same league as other musicians, mainly because there's so much music before me. I feel overinformed by different styles and different possibilities.

Rufus Wainwright

Putting all of my time In learning to care And a bucket of rhymes I threw up somewhere Want a locket of who Made me lose my perfunctory view Of all that is around And of all that I do.

Rowan Atkinson

The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness - and the other represents oppression.

Rowan Williams

The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.

Roberto Unger

In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction.

Warren Buffett

We do not view the company itself as the ultimate owner of our business assets but instead view the company as a conduit through which our shareholders own assets.

Warren Buffett

The best way in my view is to just buy a low-cost index fund and keep buying it regularly over time, because you'll be buying into a wonderful industry, which in effect is all of American industry... People ought to sit back and relax and keep accumulating over time.

Warren Buffett

Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.

Vivienne Westwood

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

Vladimir Lenin

Those who are really convinced that they have made progress in science would not demand freedom for the new views to continue side by side with the old, but the substitution of the new views for the old.

Vladimir Lenin

Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with the view of confiscating them and leaving the population defenseless.

Walter Annenberg

Just to pile up money for my own sake, I just can't view that as good citizenship.

Wayne Thiebaud

Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances.