Quotes 301 till 320 of 522.
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Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.
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Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
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Our personal networks, although often small at the beginning, can still be the best place to start when we want to get a job that makes a difference or take our ideas to the next level.
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People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.
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People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.
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People think that if you get a lot of views, the ad truck just shows up at your front door. That's just not true.
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Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
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Play every shot so that the next one will be the easiest that you can give yourself.
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.
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Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
As quoted in Synergetics Dictionary : The Mind of Buckminster Fuller (1986)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.
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Politics is the art of the next best.
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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Put my ear to the door / I just heard gunshots and hot rods and sirensPeople kill me these days / There's keys in their eyes but they lock from the inside
24 Hour Revenge Therapy (1993) Condition Oakland -
Put your arm around the buddy next to you. And if you don't have any friends, I'll be your best friend in the whole world.
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Putting together two powerful sets is always difficult. After you really pour it out one night, it's hard to pour it out the next night.
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Race is the least reliable information you can have about someone. It's real information, but it tells you next to nothing.
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Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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