Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.

Mo Ibrahim

Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure.

Tom Shales

You do have to wonder how Jack Bauer, maverick hero of '24,' can stay hidden for so long when no matter where he goes, he always seems within range of a TV camera. Or six.

Steve Greene

We're not scary and we don't have a hidden agenda,

Bill Dougherty

These are not marquee-name stars. These are hidden stars.

John Galliano

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

William Cowper

Our wasted oil unprofitably burns,Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.

William Stafford

My name is William Tell:when little oppressions touch mearrows hidden in my cloakwhisper, "Ready, ready.

Judy Hayles

I think she's got him hidden out someplace. She knows where he is, that you can rest assured. He left that place with no shoes, no jacket. He didn't even take his money with him. He told his roommate somebody was picking him up.

Fred Greenstein

When a presidency has been turned around, particularly the modern presidency, there's often an outside element.

Corin Nemec

It is a Modern day, and these times need Modern solutions to Modern problems.

Martin Bouygues

My successor may need to be more modern than I am. It's a question of generations.

Harriet Harman

Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?

Camille Paglia

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

Barry Commoner

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

Lance Morrow

The jumbo jet is the airborne equivalent of the interstate highway...One might as well be stuffed into a cartridge and shot through a pneumatic tube, like interoffice mail.

Meg Ryan

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.

P. J. O'Rourke

We are a nation that worships speed and power. And for good reason. Without power we would still be part of England and everybody would be out of work... Bicycles are too slow and impuissant for a nation like ours. They belong in Czechoslovakia.