Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frederic Bastiat

There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human labor. Labor is not made permanently idle [though]; when replaced in one special category... it turns its attack against other obstacles on the main road to progress.

Al Gore

I am a passionate advocate of getting special interest money out of politics.

Billie Joe Armstrong

The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn't really know where it was going to go. It's like I always say, you just follow the music. Not only was American Idiot a special moment for us, but it also led to Ordinary World, too.

George Williams

This was a special season. We accomplished a lot... . It's special even though we didn't win the state title.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

If I would do another 'Terminator' movie I would have Terminator travel back in time and tell Arnold not to have a special election.

Carl von Clausewitz

Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow.

Jason Cirone

When it was 1-1, I thought something special was going on here . . . for about a minute.

David Wright

No one's going to be selfish. Not this year. We can have a special year with all the talent we have here.

Tony Sabatino

Scott is a special player. He does it all.

Charles Barkley

When you get arrested it's in big letters. When you get acquitted it's in small letters.

Greg Strobel

Letters is antsy, but he's ready. He's been off quite a while and can't wait to mix it up with someone. He's a little nervous, too. It's been six weeks since a 'live' bout, so that's quite a mid-season break.

Rick Moody

My letters to Pat are apologies. I was the oldest. I should have been there for him.

Bryan Callen

Compare sending someone a text message and getting a love letter delivered by carrier pigeon. No contest.

Camille Claudel

Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.

Austin Mahone

When I awake dramatically I start off my day by reciting aloud a fan letter.

Bob Hope

You know what a fan letter is - it's just an inky raspberry.

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.

Greg Strobel

I am going to miss each one of them for special reasons. Zinck, for his maturity and the forwardness in the way he practices; Coop in terms of the way he wrestles, he's just phenomenal in the practice room; Letters with his talent; and Frick with his hard-nosed attitude.

Audre Lorde

There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions

C. Wright Mills

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Herbie Hancock

I was making a hierarchy out of music, and it's ridiculous.

Estelle

Conservatives, they're like the Republicans to me. They don't do much. They have this whole hierarchy and boys' club thing going on. That doesn't help the regular person.

Murray Rothbard

Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power.

Jose Saramago

Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.

Jean Ziegler

Profit maximization is the murderous strategy of global corporation hierarchies

Ely Culbertson

A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.

Stephen Fry

Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance.