Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.
~By Anne Stevenson ~
You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.
~By Morley Safer ~
Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off 'cos they'd have worked it out for themselves.
~By Brian Clough ~
Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.
~By Zbigniew Brzezinski ~
I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don't think we had the label yet. But there's no doubt about it that I was born a feminist.
~By Marlo Thomas ~
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
~By Pat Riley ~
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
~By Alan King ~
I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.
~By Richard Stallman ~
Spreading out the particle into a string is a step in the direction of making everything we're familiar with fuzzy. You enter a completely new world where things aren't at all what you're used to.
~By Edward Witten ~
I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind.
~By Zach Braff ~
Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.
~By Dennis Bergkamp ~
Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence.
~By Brian Harris ~
Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.
~By Peter O'Toole ~
The newest books are those that never grow old.
~By Logan P. Smith ~
Also, when I started racing he knew a lot of people and it was more easy for me to find the first bike, so I have a good chance for sure.
~By Valentino Rossi ~
The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.
~By Lawrence Ferlinghetti ~
I've always been extremely lucky in playing with great people who knew much more than I did. That's how I got from there to here.
~By Steve Lacy ~
On his own okay, Bush has authorized eavesdropping on as many as a thousand people over the past three years, with some of those intercepts being purely domestic, the New York Times reported.
~By Margaret Carlson ~
We print 37 million copies, and we found out about the unfortunate news as we were putting the issue to bed.
~By Olivia Newton-John ~
From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.
~By Ferdinand Lassalle ~
Back then when Chomsky and Herman wrote, the left, myself among them, all knew that something terrible was happening in Vietnam, though most now claim to remember otherwise.
~By James Donald ~
If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
~By John Maynard Keynes ~
I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do this.
~By Robert Rauschenberg ~
Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.
~By Andy Warhol ~
Well, I think a lot of people only hear about the extreme, fundamentalist kind of polygamists, because they're always in the news being brought up on charges.
~By Jeanne Tripplehorn ~
I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
~By Ogden Nash ~
New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.
~By Doug Coupland ~
Ladies and gentlemen, I wish I had better news for you but we are facing a storm that most of us have feared. This is a threat that we've never faced before.
~By Ray Nagin ~
Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn't her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is.
~By Howard Fineman ~
When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?
~By Henry Flynt ~
Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people.
~By Robert Orben ~
If you want to be negative about the whole thing you can say all guitar bands after the Beatles were just a waste of time because the Beatles were the best. I think it's far better to give new records a try.
~By Stephen Malkmus ~
I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong.
~By Jermaine Jackson ~
I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
~By Billy Joel ~
I have just got a new theory of eternity.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Then there's going to be another project I am involved with, in fact, I'm going back to film it next week. It's a game for the Internet called Advance Warriors, and my character is Max, who is blind, but he has special powers. It will be a new game played on the Internet.
~By Jeremy Bulloch ~
Create each day anew.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.
~By Allan Sherman ~
Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.
~By Hugo Black ~
We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.
~By Kirk Hammett ~
Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
~By Alfred Lord Tennyson ~
The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.
~By Cathy Rindner Tempelsman ~
The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.
~By Lord Kelvin ~
I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me.
~By Patty Duke ~
When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.
~By Terry Bradshaw ~
The first time I went to New York, I met Alan Freed.
~By Johnny Rivers ~
I knew Slash in high school, but not very well. Just knew him as this kid that used to hang out in the hallway. Pretty much looked then the way he does now.
~By Lenny Kravitz ~
I always knew the importance of it, since I was three or four years old my mother used to feed me wine and water. I grew up with wine as liquid food.
~By Robert Mondavi ~
We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.
~By Jeremy Rifkin ~
The other thing that was very noticeable on that tour, not so much in the video, was the new young element that were coming to our shows... I started to see some very young people in the audience... maybe 14, 15, 16 years old.
~By David Coverdale ~
A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.
~By L. Neil Smith ~
Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.
~By Jim Gerlach ~
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
~By Aleister Crowley ~
Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.
~By Al Gore ~
So many have been growing with us from the very beginning of our career. Others are brand new to us.
~By Eydie Gorme ~
Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.
~By Harri Holkeri ~
On the other hand, there are only so many people who really knew how she was exactly, like what did her accent sound like, and the fact that she developed profound deafness when she was first running the Harriet Lane.
~By Mary Stuart Masterson ~
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.
~By Antonio Tabucchi ~
We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past.
~By Nick Park ~
I love it. When they stop imitating me then I'll start wondering where I'm going wrong. Every day when I sit down to play, I learn something new.
~By Erroll Garner ~
You can go out feet first, and that's not my desire, or you can say, I think we've served with distinction, and this is the time to go home and seek a new challenge.
~By Jerry Kleczka ~
At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather derivative intellectually; is there a dearth of really new ideas?
~By Dennis Ritchie ~
22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush.
~By Sidney Blumenthal ~
Our fathers were actually business partners in the same real-estate firm, and we got together and thought, How can we get a movie together and get distribution and create a new movie genre? We started by making satires of commercials.
~By David Zucker ~
I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.
~By Carter Burwell ~
I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
~By Dan Simmons ~
So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.
~By Robert Morris ~
A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.
~By T. Berry Brazelton ~
Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.
~By Bill Bruford ~
I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
So, I decided that whatever I was, wanted to do with my life, it would have to do, it would have to have something to do with the exploration and doing new things.
~By Duane G. Carey ~
Hi-Tek is on three or four songs on the new record.
~By Talib Kweli ~
I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.
~By Joseph E. Stiglitz ~
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
~By Charles Babbage ~
Well I knew JD could go out there and knock the guy out because in training I told JD all the time that he has height, reach and size and he has the power. JD has such a right hand, his right hand is like wow, oh man it is bad.
~By Michael Moorer ~
One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.
~By Jessica Savitch ~
We haven't played that many of them because all our gear was over here waiting for us when we could get here. So we didn't get to rehearse any of the new stuff, so we have planned to play 3 or 4 new ones.
~By Kerry King ~
I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks.
~By Larry Doby ~
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
Dying is a wild night and a new road.
~By Emily Dickinson ~
I want everybody in the news business to think of ABC before they go any place else. If it costs us an extra few thousand dollars to do that, what does it mean?
~By Roone Arledge ~
I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.
~By Angus Young ~
To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.
~By David Frum ~
But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.
~By Lakhdar Brahimi ~
I like being 35, I like having a bit of money to spend on music and useless gadgets. The net is providing new ways to communicate and cooperate that just didn't exist in the 80s.
~By Malcolm Wilson ~
Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.
~By Barry Gibb ~
There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments will be made right here in America.
~By William Graham Sumner ~
A Bush Administration will, I believe, enjoy a better relationship with the new Congress, although President-elect Bush will be faced with real challenges in getting along with the Congress.
~By Richard V. Allen ~
"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.
~By George Edward Woodberry ~
In fact, our monthly trade deficit figure is so huge it equals the entire annual budget of our Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans fought to make us free from foreign tyranny, but the new tyranny is taking a different form.
~By Marcy Kaptur ~
If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro.
~By Robert Crippen ~
The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine.
~By Will Wright ~
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
~By Walt Disney ~
None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.
~By Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach ~
I was a girl from Massapequa, New York. I grew up in Massapequa. I lived in a basement with one window.
~By Jessica Hahn ~
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