When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I'm a former hippie; I did drugs back when they were healthy. The only time I ever did LSD was at Disney… — Jim David Copy Share Image
Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Can we somehow muster the courage and steadfastness of purpose that characterized the pioneers of a former generation? Can you and I,… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like… — Macaulay Culkin Copy Share Image
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Speak seldom, but to important subjects, except such as particularly relate to your constituents, and, in the former case, make yourself perfectly… — George Washington Copy Share Image
We've been able to access deals that under our former relationship with Disney - with tax advantages and strategic partners - that… — Harvey Weinstein Copy Share Image
As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
During my seven-year contract with RKO, there were seven different studio presidents, from David O. Selznick to Charles W. Koerner. You literally… — Ginger Rogers Copy Share Image
The decline is in paper values, not in tangible goods and services...America is now in the eighth year of prosperity as commercially… — Stuart Chase Copy Share Image
Get yourself a few ‘Dime a Dozen Generals,’ bid high in the ‘former statesmen lobby auction’, and put in your pocket one… — Sibel Edmonds Copy Share Image
It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have… — Jean-Pierre Raffarin Copy Share Image
The uncritically admiring supporters and friends of the prime minister [Benjamin Netanyahu], in whose ranks I certainly don't include David [Brooks], but… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
If memory serves me correctly, and it doesn't always, Kate [DiCamillo] and I met in the fall of 2001 at the former… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in my opinion the best method of defining… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
Formerly, many men dominated women within marriage. Now, despite a much wider acceptance of women as workers, men dominate women anonymously outside… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The indications are that swearing preceded the development of cursing. That is, expletives, maledictions, exclamations, and imprecations of the immediately explosive or… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
If a hundred or a thousand people, all of the same age, of the same constitution and habits, were suddenly seized by… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
If I had my life to live over again I would not devote it to develop new industrial processes: I would try… — Leo Baekeland Copy Share Image
There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the juices of the body were more chymically examined, especially by a naturalist, that knows the ways of making fixed bodies… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
That's unfortunately common - to blame immigrants, to blame the African-Americans who are being helped by federal programs, to blame anyone available,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Casey Blake (a former Minnesota Twin, now with the Indians) is a good friend of mine, I'd like to see the Indians… — Corey Koskie Copy Share Image
As both a former governor and a Naval officer I can tell you energy security remains among biofuels' most important benefits. — Matt Blunt Copy Share Image
Electrical matter differs from common matter in this, that the parts of the latter mutually attract, those of the former mutually repel… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I think there is clearly a connection between free time and procrastination. The more you have of the former, all things being… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Let my muse Fail of thy former helps, and only use Her inadulterate strength. What's done by me Hereafter shall smell of… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
We planted bugs, microphones, in premises which interested us in the West. We weren't too successful - I would have said unfortunately… — Markus Wolf Copy Share Image
The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
As a former secretary of defense, I think Donald Rumsfeld is the best secretary of defense the United States has ever had. — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York. — Andre Balazs Copy Share Image
When better screening certain Muslim immigrants first came up, one of the big defenders was Carl Higbie. He's a former Navy Sean… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
I happen to be a three-time former WWF Champion and a hardcore legend, and I never had my own dressing room. — Mick Foley Copy Share Image
From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
I shall omit former particulars, and begin with informing the Reader, that, in 1792, I was strangely visited, by day and night,… — Joanna Southcott Copy Share Image
The Dutch and the English, former competitors for world dominance, taught me the wisdom of waiting as well as withholding. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Government will not nominate the former Labor prime minister [Kevin Rudd] to be the UN's next secretary-general. — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image