Jonathan Swift Quotes
Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain.
Quotes to Explore
-
If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
-
President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
-
Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
-
It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
-
I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.
-
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
-
I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.
-
Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
-
When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.
-
I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.
-
I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
-
I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
-
Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
-
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
-
My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.
-
Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
-
If you want to make change, 'Show me how' can be a stronger, more effective approach than 'Just say no.' That's what I think.
-
If you think about Cisco's offerings like TelePresence, where it's an immersive way to communicate for businesses to connect and have conversations in a real-time immersive mode, how that will change health care, how that'll change retail business, how that'll change actually travel. There's lots of changes that we will see going forward.
-
Not vain the weakest, if their force unite.
-
When I was a little girl, I did not listen to music much. I did not think that one day I would become a rapper. I was born in a very traditional and religious family. Being a female was destroying my dreams. Slowly, first through poetry and then music, I began to find ways to share my thoughts and feelings, talk to my family and to the world.
-
Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.
-
Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain.
