Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the… — Bill Skarsgard Copy Share Image
If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: "I joked about every prominent… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
You'd be a fool or a deluded idealist to think ethics would be prominent on Wall Street. That is not a statement… — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
If I become President, I'll make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public, and the… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
My biggest surprise of the year does involve Donald Trump and it involves his money. And I am one of the prominent… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Two large prominent eyes that rolled about to no purpose (for he was utterly short-sighted) a wide mouth, thick lips and inflated… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
His (Lloyd Kaufman) string of low-budget, lowbrow horror comedies stretching back to the ’80s has been cited as influence by Peter Jackson,… — Lou Lumenick Copy Share Image
It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive,… — Adolphe Quetelet Copy Share Image
America's political landscape is infested with many zombie ideas - beliefs about policy that have been repeatedly refuted with evidence and analysis… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The Americans had not played a very prominent part in the war of 1914-1918, he (Adolf Hitler) thought, and moreover, had not… — Albert Speer Copy Share Image
The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
A dangerous thesis has taken hold among many in the GOP: that it might be better to lose the '06 election and… — Larry Sabato Copy Share Image
The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The ways in which acquired savants show up are usually the same ways that congenital, or non-acquired, savant syndrome shows up. They… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
This is a Christian country. Why, so is hell. Inasmuch as Strait is the way and narrow is the gate, and few… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The sexual regions constitute a particularly vulnerable spot, and remain so even in man, and the need for their protection which thus… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
I don't take so-called "vacations" often. In fact vacations are more stressful than the lives my wife and I worked hard to… — Ryan McGinness Copy Share Image
For nearly two centuries, scholars and politicians have debated the future of capitalism. Its critics, most prominent among them Karl Marx, have… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
Prominent and influential editors, accustomed to deal with politicians, men of an infinitely lower grade, say, in their ignorance,that he acted "on… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The founding fathers, in their wisdom, devised a method by which our republic can take one hundred of its most prominent numbskulls… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men,… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
Malcolm X was the first prominent American to attack and to criticize the U.S. role in Southeast Asia, and he came out… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature. — James Payn Copy Share Image
I also would rather race than strut red carpets in Hollywood - and thank God this is not my job - but… — Bernie Ecclestone Copy Share Image
I have very complex and complicated ideas about technology. It's such a prominent way that we communicate with each other. In ways,… — Jane Levy Copy Share Image
When the last history of high-frequency trading is written, Hunsader, like Joe Saluzzi and Sal Arnuk of Themis Trading, deserves a prominent… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
I got four volumes of the letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell. He is prominent among the great unread, and treated so… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the native. The British Indian does not need… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
Whoever would understand the character of Washington, in all its compass and grandeur, must learn it from his own writings, and from… — Jared Sparks Copy Share Image
But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
