The holy Cross goes forward; it brings joy and consolation to every quarter where Christians live; and these God-fearing people, elated, stand… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants… — Bob Barker Copy Share Image
Motivated teams are the key to success at every startup, yet I still know entrepreneurs who gave an inspirational speech to kick… — Martin Zwilling Copy Share Image
[on the screenplay for "When Harry Met Sally"] It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Economists can certainly disappoint you. One said that the economy would turn up by the last quarter. Well, I'm down to mine… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
Nobody draws the light for covered wine rooms from the south or west, but rather from the north, since that quarter is… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
She had lived in that house fourteen years, and every year she had demanded of John that she be given a pet… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
A black cat among roses, phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon, the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent. — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I thought we were aggressive across the board defensively, and you could just see it grow. As the game went along, you… — Bill Laimbeer Copy Share Image
Instead of putting a quarter under a kid's pillow, how about a pinecone? That way, he learns that "wishing" isn't going to… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Ever since I first visited New Orleans back in '89, I've been intrigued by the French Quarter. I always wanted to set… — Robert Asprin Copy Share Image
The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the various products of the whole earth --… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v.… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
From time to time, as if heaven-sent to annoy, someone will ask me if I'm self-disciplined when it comes to my work.… — Will Self Copy Share Image
It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Yet we slink about like whipped curs:;... our self-abasement principally takes the form of subservience to the United States:;... we are under… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
Using material ferried up by rockets, it would be possible to construct a "space station" in ... orbit. The station could be… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image