Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Sullivan

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

Curt Johnston

Unfortunately, it seems like there are always winners and losers with this kind of decision. They'll probably write letters to the editor, tell us how stupid we are, and tell us we don't listen to the public.

Chris Stein

We exploded after a while and made a lot of horrendously stupid mistakes.

Samuel Lopez

We're just looking out for the kids. We want to make sure they don't do anything stupid and nothing happens to them.

William Shakespeare

The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.

Alan Chadwick

The term biodynamics - push it aside, it is verbosity. It doesn't matter a bit. One has to use words to make headings, that's all it is. It's rather like the stupidity in a picture gallery today where you have to write under it what the scene or person is. It is equally as nonsensical as that. Therefore to talk about biodynamic gardening, biodynamic horticulture, biodynamic agriculture and the French intensive system is merely a horrible heading of terminology.

Alan Bishop

The lyrics are not an important thing to me. In fact, it can be a distraction. If I knew the language enough to know it was a horrible love song with stupid lyrics - like most of the popular songs are today in the English language that I hear - then it would be much more of a turnoff then if it would allow me to interpret it from the expressive capabilities of the vocalizing or of the sound itself, which allows me to create my own meaning for it, which elevates it into a higher piece of work for me.

Alan Bradley

One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.

Alan Bennett

Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.

Diane Sollee

When we were saying it doesn't matter in the '60s and '70s and '80s, we didn't have the experience of enough kids in a culture when families were breaking down. It was just our best guess.

Carl Honore

We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.

Eugene Hutz

What we're making isn't folk music, but savage intellectualism. We speak a language of a new world community that understands cultures can relate. So people who still speak of nationalism and racism or what separates us, they are inadequate for this time. Evolution goes on.

Bruce Gjovig

Whenever royalty visits, I think it is something that really excites people, gets them interested in heritage and culture.

Abraham Foxman

What have we achieved? ... In his world, in his culture, this is a major step. From our perspective it isn't.

Anthony Zinni

We grow up in a culture where accountability, learning to accept responsibility, admitting mistakes and learning from them was critical to us. When we don't see that happening it worries us. Poor military judgment has been used throughout this mission.

Joe Crawford

We felt it was important to make that move from a position of strength, when we could pick our partners, ... We feel the companies' cultures mesh well.

Jeff Chirico

We felt it had a character, it had a great story to tell, it had interesting people and it had a rich culture that we thought would make for a great program.

Paul Allen

We believe Tim will solidify the football culture of the Seahawks.

Arthur Holly Compton

My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.

Alan Chadwick

We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.

Alain Resnais

My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.

Alan Ball

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

Alan Alda

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

Al Ries

It's better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.

Al Pacino

I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.

Al Pacino

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

Akon

It's always the music first for me. But if the music isn't selling, there isn't gonna be no business. So you gotta make sure music is always the first priority.