Prominent Quotes

143 Prominent quotes by 134 unique authors

An expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into the composition of… — Marshall McLuhan
Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I really don't know. I see a lot of artistic or creative influence coming… — William T. Wiley
In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution. — Edmund Wilson
Prominent exploration experts have recently predicted that total world production of liquid oil will peak by about the end of this decade-or a few years… — Amory Lovins
Some individuals may perceive their losing fight with gravity as a sharp pain in their back, others as the unflattering contour of their body, others… — Ida Rolf
We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives. — Charles Spurgeon
You are the sum total of your dominating or most prominent thoughts. — Napoleon Hill
My grandfather was a member of Parliament for 40 years. Obviously we're talking here South Africa, a whites only parliament. I grew up in a… — William Kentridge
We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next… — Emperor Norton
But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship… — Donna Rice Hughes
That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense… — George Stigler
In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the natives. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions… — Mahatma Gandhi
His (Lloyd Kaufman) string of low-budget, lowbrow horror comedies stretching back to the ’80s has been cited as influence by Peter Jackson, the Farrelly Brothers,… — Lou Lumenick
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 prominent in my… — Zach Braff
Socially prominent people are very fond of disease, because it gives them a chance to have these really elaborate charity functions, and the newspaper headlines… — Dave Barry
The taste for well-being is the prominent and indelible feature of democratic times. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Style, like the human body, is specially beautiful when the veins are not prominent and the bones cannot be counted. — Tacitus
I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part I never really regret, and I try… — Channing Tatum
It's been so long since a talented writer last occupied the White House; no wonder, then, that American writers have been among the most prominent… — Jonathan Raban
I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress… — Pranab Mukherjee
Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world.… — Russell Kirk
In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences. — China Mieville
The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer. — John Jay Chapman
Intervention continues to be a prominent dimension of the post-cold war world. — Mike Jackson
Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just… — Bill Skarsgard

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