The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
~By Malcolm Forbes ~
A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
~By Washington Irving ~
There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.
~By William C. Bryant ~
When people come to the show they think we are a legendary band because they hear us on Classic Rock radio all the time. It is psychological. That's okay - I'm down with that.
~By George Thorogood ~
Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.
~By John Thorn ~
The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.
~By Gloria Swanson ~
And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.
~By Will Wright ~
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
If we take as given that critical infrastructures are vulnerable to a cyber terrorist attack, then the question becomes whether there are actors with the capability and motivation to carry out such an operation.
~By Dorothy Denning ~
There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.
~By Robert Creeley ~
I have not really experienced any significant conflict with anyone in regard to my choice to be vegan, although going out to eat is hard sometimes.
~By Daniel Johns ~
After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now?
~By Ernst Toller ~
Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.
~By Karl Rove ~
In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.
~By George P. Baker ~
During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.
~By George Andrew Olah ~
The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month.
~By Michael Shermer ~
I love to direct my daughter, and act with her, and we both want to work with Jane again.
~By Peter Fonda ~
Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
~By J. William Fulbright ~
People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways.
~By Vaclav Klaus ~
But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.
~By Roy Lichtenstein ~
The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.
~By Gavin DeGraw ~
Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
Paralyze resistance with persistence.
~By Woody Hayes ~
What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan.
~By Sylvester Stallone ~
Who is more in touch with the problems of this country? One of those guys who goes off to Oxford or to University of Yale, or someone who has lived in buses, in the Metro, in the street?
~By Gloria Trevi ~
Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
Number two, we're going to play with a lot of effort. Our guys are going to be in such good shape that fatigue is not going to be a problem. We're going to play with full effort from snap to whistle on every play the entire game.
~By Steve Spurrier ~
The most important issue is clearly not the quality of treatment and care of these prisoners; rather it is the perplexing issue of what we now do with them.
~By Charles Foster Bass ~
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
~By Ezra Pound ~
I thought that if you come across as a freak, there will be some kind of distance. Maybe the distance became excessive. I realized that people were afraid of me without knowing me.
~By Thomas Kretschmann ~
One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work.
~By Roger Corman ~
If you're going to be with someone, you're with them, you're committed to them. I'm not sort of flitting around.
~By Nicole Kidman ~
To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish; and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law.
~By William Tyndale ~
From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.
~By Beth Orton ~
I've been using the Mac solely for years, and got very comfortable with it.
~By Jerry Goldsmith ~
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
~By Charles de Montesquieu ~
My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.
~By Kenneth Robert Livingstone ~
Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
~By Plato ~
Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.
~By Edward W. Howe ~
Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits.
~By Jack Kilby ~
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
~By George Santayana ~
I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music business, I suppose, but I was also in the youth orchestra at Johnston Grammar.
~By Trevor Horn ~
You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment.
~By Stephen Breyer ~
Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.
~By Meg Tilly ~
Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.
~By Saint Patrick ~
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
~By Petrarch ~
I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I've had bonds for over 50 years with people.
~By Larry King ~
To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.
~By Brandi Chastain ~
A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true.
~By Ray Evans ~
A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence.
~By John Foxe ~
There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized that there is certain documentation that do deserve protection, that certain privileges do apply and do deserve protection.
~By Alberto Gonzales ~
I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.
~By Dale Earnhardt ~
One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit.
~By James Dobson ~
With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last.
~By Midge Ure ~
With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.
~By Maurice Jarre ~
Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.
~By George Washington Carver ~
Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems.
~By Gil Kane ~
Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.
~By David Cronenberg ~
With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.
~By Lee Krasner ~
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
~By Hermann Hesse ~
I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.
~By Lord Mountbatten ~
The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.
~By Jerry Only ~
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?
~By Evangelista Torricelli ~
I was assistant in Edmonton with Wayne as captain, and Kevin Lowe was the other assistant.
~By Mark Messier ~
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
~By Jane Austen ~
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.
~By John Berger ~
I grew up with brothers. I love men. Of course it's hard to be a woman in a man's world.
~By Allison Janney ~
Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.
~By Hernando Cortes ~
A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.
~By Jackie Cooper ~
If we did go into a recession, something that's always possible for the U.S. or Europe, we could lower interest rates and expand the money supply without worrying about the price of gold.
~By Jeffrey Sachs ~
We should assume that the end product can be switched off by any consumer who is offended or frightened by it.
~By Richard King ~
I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.
~By Vernon L. Smith ~
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
~By Eden Phillpotts ~
We really believe that Walt Disney is a very able company with great depth and a great set of franchises.
~By Robert Iger ~
I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.
~By David Ginola ~
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
~By Joseph Brodsky ~
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are - as women and as mothers.
~By Arianna Huffington ~
But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think we're just about all agreed that Lincoln and Speed did not have a homosexual relationship.
~By David Herbert Donald ~
I am now the target of the most powerful man in this country, with an army of aides whose major responsibility today seems to be to attack me and get rid of me.
~By Gerald Walpin ~
I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children.
~By Dominic Chianese ~
Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
~By Charles de Lint ~
Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that's going on, how could I stop?
~By Gwendolyn Brooks ~
I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.
~By Francis Walsingham ~
Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation.
~By Joseph E. Stiglitz ~
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
~By John Wooden ~
We have for the past year and undoubtedly will be for the next year, dealing with an electorate that is more alienated and more cynical than at any point in modern time.
~By Robert Teeter ~
Many have been with the show for years, and they have sources in the business, so we do know things, but until it is verified, we don't run with the story.
~By Mary Hart ~
To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.
~By Hans Urs von Balthasar ~
We really have a lot of fun at these sessions, we all get along and kid around with each other throughout the job.
~By Tara Strong ~
I sat in at every club in New York City, jamming with musicians, because it felt right - and because it felt right and we were having fun - the people dancing and sipping their drinks in the clubs felt it too and it made them smile.
~By Ray Conniff ~
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
~By Karl Kraus ~
I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.
~By Laura Hillenbrand ~
There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time.
~By Lou Reed ~
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
~By Walter Benjamin ~
I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone.
~By Willie Nelson ~
I just happen to admire everyone that we work with.
~By Pharrell Williams ~
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