Quotes 2721 till 2740 of 3724.
-
The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
-
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
-
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
-
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
-
The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?
-
The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
-
The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
-
The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.
-
The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
-
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
-
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
-
The hardest thing about starting a company and running a company is, there's just so many expectations on you, and there are so many people who have things that they want you to do. It's a lot like life about that.
-
The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
-
The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we'll see that's to come in the end of the finance year and everybody else and also real estate and what theaters are available at the time but I would like to come back with it.
-
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
-
The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
-
The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.
A Distant Mirror -
The idea is that they wouldn't want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So that's what we are doing here.
-
The idea of getting a, you know, syringe full of heroin and shooting it in the vein under my cock right now seems like almost a productive act.
Im Sorry Folks -
The idea of the Internet as sort of open and democratic and free and with no hierarchy, the libertarian beginnings as it were, with peer-to-peer networks... I'd sort of like for everyone to just admit that we're beyond that now.
All rodin-like famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 137)
