Landmark Quotes
50 quotes by 48 authors
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Incredibly, almost every hotel I ever played in Vegas was blown up shortly afterward: The Dunes, The Sands, The Landmark, The Aladdin, The Frontier, The…
— Elayne Boosler
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A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I am the maker of my own fortune, and Oh! that I could make that of my Red People, and of my country, as great…
— Tecumseh
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Another well-known Paris landmark is the Arc de Triomphe, a moving monument to the many brave women and men who have died trying to visit…
— Dave Barry
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I genuinely believe that we will look back on today as a landmark for equality in Britain ... No matter who you are and who…
— Nick Clegg
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The new Bournville College is not only a magnificent building and a great landmark but a source of pride for Longbridge and its communities. The…
— Waqar Azmi
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This is a landmark work in the history of African American studies and American intellectual history. Writing with verve, Jackson brings to life a large…
— Werner Sollors
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The major concern ...was to create a monument which would have lasting significance and would be a landmark of our time... Neither an obelisk nor…
— Eero Saarinen
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Kurt Godel's achievement in modern logic is singular and monumental - indeed it is more than a monument, it is a landmark which will remain…
— John von Neumann
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My sex life is so bad, my G-spot has been declared a historical landmark.
— Joan Rivers
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Science advances by trial and error. When mistakes are made, the peer-review publication process usually roots them out. Cuccinelli's version of the scientific process would…
— Scott Mandia
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Although life is a continuous process, fertilization is a critical landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new, genetically distinct human organism is thereby formed.... The…
— Ronan O'Rahilly
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In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the…
— Tracy Kidder
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All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.
— Dick Schaap
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John Clare, in his poem To a Fallen Elm, makes the tree a selfmark as well as a landmark.
— Tim Fulford
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Britain is obviously one of the world powers and they bombed the World Trade Centre, which is a landmark in itself, and over in Britain…
— Robbie Kearns
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Recently, John and I got to go to Selma and perform it on the same bridge that Martin Luther King walked over. Once a landmark…
— John Legend
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The ADA was a landmark civil rights legislation. It was a bill of rights for persons with disabilities, a formal acknowledgement that Americans with disabilities…
— Valerie Jarrett
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Human health should now be thought of as a collective property of the human-associate d microbiota, as one group of researchers recently concluded in a…
— Michael Pollan
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Optimal experience is that rare occasion when we feel a sense of exhilaration, a deep sense of enjoyment that is long cherished and that becomes…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Who Wrote These Landmark Quotes
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