Quotes with much-maligned

Quotes 721 till 740 of 1944.

  • Bruce Lee If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Anne Enright If you try to control it too much, the book is dead.
    (2014)
    Anne Enright
    Irish writer (1962 - )
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  • Carl Hiaasen If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Carl Paladino If you're a citizen of the State of New York, your kid has as much a right as another kid to an education, and the best education. The money should be distributed equally to all.
    Carl Paladino
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Bill Kurtis If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get it.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • J. G. Ballard If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Adam Michnik If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
    Adam Michnik
    Polish historian, essayist and dissident (1946 - )
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  • Plato Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Bobby Rahal In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.
    Bobby Rahal
    American auto racing driver (1953 - )
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  • Carl Honore In a world where so much happens through computer screens, making a meal by hand, touching the raw materials, feeling your way through a recipe, tasting, adjusting, engaging all the senses, can be a soothing release.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Dorothy Dix In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.
    Dorothy Dix
    American newspaper columnist (1861 - 1951)
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  • Ben Horowitz In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Caitlin Thomas In America they make too much fuss of poets; in London they make too little.
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  • Matthew Prior In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • Mark Twain In Boston they ask, ''How much does he know?'' In New York, ''How much is he worth?'' In Philadelphia, ''Who were his parents?''
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bjork In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Bryan Greenberg In everyday life, I'm pretty much T-shirt and jeans guy - a soft LnA shirt, cool APC jeans, Nikes or Jordans. If I'm going to an event I like to wear a suit, sometimes a three-piece. I'm into brands like Simon Spurr - I think he makes great suits - and Dior Homme.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • John B. S. Haldane In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.
    John B. S. Haldane
    British scientist, writer (1892 - 1964)
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All much-maligned famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 37)