They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert. — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
There are no relationship problems that can't be solved through suitable application of high explosives. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable. — Brigitte Bardot Copy Share Image
A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
Don't try to drive the homeless into places we find suitable. Help them survive in places they find suitable. — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
The level of discourse reaching a mailbox simply cannot be limited to that which would be suitable for a sandbox. — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Beware of bartering the Word of God for a more suitable conception of your own. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure… — Hart Crane Copy Share Image
All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The human life form vibrates at a certain rate, but all vibratory rates are not suitable for human life. So it's very… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his… — Yusuf Hamied Copy Share Image
I've often thought about that and the only suitable member to join me on that climb [to Everest] was George Lowe: he… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
The world is undoubtedly going through great changes. The only question is whether the outcome will be the good of Aryan humanity… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with yeast alone. Truth in… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I thought you… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
I was already doing a lot of splendid research reading all the books about ghosts I could get hold of, and particularly… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being... Almighty God would mercifully… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I fancy you give me credit for being a more systematic sort of cove than I really am in the matter of… — William Sealy Gosset Copy Share Image
POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We see that God has implanted in all things a natural desire to exist with the fullest measure of existence that is… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience,… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
Community is another such phenomenon. Like electricity, it is profoundly lawful. Yet there remains something about it that is inherently mysterious, miraculous,… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with bank-notes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal-mines which are then filled… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Modernism really started with people getting infatuated with the idea of "it's the twentieth century, is this suitable for the twentieth century."… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image