Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Goodhart

We've always had a broader cultural coverage, particularly in the last three or four years We have short stories in every issue. We have more of an interior life. Perhaps the mistake was not to make more noise about that in the earlier issues.

Joanne Boyle

We're just inconsistent-that's the biggest thing. Even though we've set goals, we've been inconsistent with them. We have to be more consistent with all these things to make some noise here at the end.

Michael Mueller

We're gearing up for Planning (Commission) now, ... We're doing a traffic study, a noise study and a biological study.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

[Warfare is] maleness in its absurdest extremes. Here is to be studied the whole gamut of basic masculinity, from the initial instinct of combat, through every form of glorious ostentation, with the loudest accompaniment of noise.

R. Robinson

We've already got noise on one side of us from Boise and we just don't want noise on both sides of us.

Jonathan Shapiro

There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises.

Stewart Udall

We stand today poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking open space and of an overall environment that is diminished daily by pollution and noise and blight. This, in brief, is the quiet conservation crisis.

Gretchen Rubin

Take the perspective of a journalist or scientist. Really study what's around you. What are people wearing, what do the interiors of buildings look like, what noises do you hear? If you bring your analytical powers to bear, you can make almost anything interesting.

Michael Ashcroft

When I was in my early twenties, I hoped one day to own a Victoria Cross, the ultimate decoration in Britain and the Commonwealth for bravery in the face of the enemy.

Peter Lilley

The possibility of you being able to successfully launder 50 million pounds in Britain is fairly minimal unless you literally break it up into trenches of 2,000, 3,000 or 5,000 or something like that.

Martin Jacques

With the United States in slow long-term decline, how will that affect the position of English? And where will all that leave monolingual Britain? Our political leaders like to boast about how global Britain is, but when it comes to languages, it is near the bottom of the global league, together with another island state, Japan.

Louis Susman

The bond between the United States and Britain has always been strong. It has survived through war and peace, periods of prosperity and economic hardship.

Mark Helprin

The British monarchy has the political and constitutional task of subtracting from the government and governors of Britain the papal and kingly airs that in America, because we have no such institution, unfortunately adhere to the president.

Helen Sharman

I get standing ovations at meetings when I say Britain should be involved in human spaceflight. Unfortunately, that goal has been blocked by a handful of people in high office.

Cat Deeley

In Britain, it's almost as if we're ashamed of having ambition and drive.

John McWhorter

The contribution of West African languages to Ebonics is absolutely infinitesimal. What it actually is is a very interesting hybrid of regional dialects of Great Britain that slaves in America were exposed to because they often worked alongside the indentured servants who spoke those dialects that we often learn about in school.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.