The problem with TV today is not just too much sex, violence, profanity, dishonesty or crude behavior. It is too much TV,… — Randall Wright Copy Share Image
Sticking wires into the brain is obviously rather crude. It's hard to do in animals that run around, and there is a… — Gero Miesenbock Copy Share Image
America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the managerial organization, the top people sit in judgment; in the innovative organization it is their job to encourage ideas, no… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute. — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Trial by jury must and shall be preserved! Amidst the throng of crude sacrilegisms ... that assail us nowadays in the legal… — John Henry Wigmore Copy Share Image
Both in the lower and the middle classes the wiseacres urge young men 'to think it over' before taking the decisive step.… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
Cookery is the art of preparing food for the nourishment of the body. Prehistoric man may have lived on uncooked foods, but… — Fannie Farmer Copy Share Image
The longtime standard for American TV was 525 lines from top to bottom of the image. As a practical matter, that was… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
It is no secret that any talented player must in his soul be an artist, and what could be dearer to his… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to suceed and be great. Our thought has been 'Let… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas… — Gary Miller Copy Share Image
We remember when women were spoken of differently. I don't mean that we didn't speak of women sexually - that happened. It… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
In the election campaign of 1930, Hitler seldom spoke explicitly of Jews. The crude tirades of the early 1920s were missing altogether.… — Ian Kershaw Copy Share Image
Each human being has the eternal duty of turning what is hard and brutal into a tender and subtle offering, what is… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
It is the profoundest of cosmic ironies. The divine power, our true spiritual essence, does not achieve perfection until it hits the… — Lon Milo DuQuette Copy Share Image
Do not entertain the notion that you ought to advance in your prayer. If you do, you will only find you have… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
We passed law that encouraged consumption through different purchasing habits like, you know, hybrid vehicles. You buy hybrid, you get a tax… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“I will say one thing about those males, there is never a dull moment." Peri suddenly appeared causing everyone to jump. "Bloody… — Quinn Loftis Copy Share Image
Some lucky people can be funny without half trying because they actually look funny, because acting funny is in their bones -… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
But we never tell the truth. We cannot properly 'tell' the truth, because our words are crude tools to express something, 'the… — Declan Donnellan Copy Share Image
In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way… — John Caudwell Copy Share Image
If the best the roboticists can hope for is the creation of some crude, cheesy, second-rate, artificial consciousness, they still win. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor . . . I do not… — Jack Johnson Copy Share Image
Love is like a booger, you pick and pick at it. Then when you get it you wonder how to get rid… — Mae West Copy Share Image
If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Tangier is one of the few places left in the world where, so long as you don't proceed to robbery, violence, or… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some… — Emilio Estevez Copy Share Image
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things,… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas. — Susan George Copy Share Image
There are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude… — Hans Blix Copy Share Image
Some archeologists believe that Stonehenge - the mysterious arrangement of enormous elongated stones in England - is actually a crude effort by… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Simplicity can have a negative impact when it's the crude reduction of nuances beyond appreciation: a Matisse presented as a 16-color GIF. — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
