Quotes with much-maligned

Quotes 1361 till 1380 of 1944.

  • A. E. Housman The difference between an icicle and a red-hot poker is really much slighter than the difference between truth and falsehood or sense and nonsense; yet it is much more immediately noticeable and much more universally noticed, because the body is more sensitive than the mind.
    The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism, a lecture delivered on August 4, 1921
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • John Maynard Keynes The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • William Blake The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow.
    Proverbs of hell
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Ben Elton The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • Bobbi Brown The easiest ways to improve your appearance is with a really good moisturizer that will plump up your skin, a bit of concealer and a creamy blush on your cheek and lip. It's quick and easy and you'll look so much better.
    Bobbi Brown
    American professional makeup artist, author and public speaker
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  • Aristotle The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • George Santayana The empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Billy Burke The end of times has always been a fascination. But post 9/11, pretty much everybody will admit to having it on their minds more frequently than when they were a kid.
    Billy Burke
    American actor
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  • Albert Camus The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Boris Johnson The excitement is growing so much I think the Geiger counter of Olympo-mania is going to go zoink off the scale.
    On the forthcoming London Olympic Games. Daily Telegraph, 27 July 2012.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Anish Kapoor The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Bill Irwin The fact is that we like each other very much, and we of course see each other on stage all the time, but this means more time to spend together, and that's great. We couldn't be happier.
    Bill Irwin
    American actor, clown and comedian (1950 - )
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  • Charles A. Garfield The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.
    Charles A. Garfield
    American psychologist and author (1944 - )
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  • Carl Rogers The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.
    Carl Rogers
    American psychologist (1902 - 1987)
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  • Amelia E. Barr The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
    Amelia E. Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Atom Egoyan The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Edmund Waller The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
    Edmund Waller
    English poet and politician (1606 - 1687)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: ''he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.''
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Armistead Maupin The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Bethany Mota The first day back to school, you never want to wear your best outfit. You're setting the bar too high for yourself! Then the rest of the school year, you'll feel so much pressure! Wear something cute, but save your best outfit for a day when no one expects it.
    Bethany Mota
    American video blogger (1995 - )
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All much-maligned famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 69)