Jonathan Swift Quotes

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Jonathan Swift

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• I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Research
  • Intelligence
  • Network

• The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • City
  • Washington
  • Call

• I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Job
  • Creativity
  • Creative

• Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • People
  • Country
  • Culture

• It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Important
  • Remember
  • America

• I don't have a very quick sense of humor.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor
  • Quick

• My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go, but you get to the point in life where you don't have this raging jealousy and protectiveness about your world.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Life
  • World
  • Mother

• Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Myself

• I've always driven big SUVs. I'm from Maine, and there's a point to driving a big SUV in Maine. I don't really need a 4WD in L.A., but on the 405, people are crazy, and you need a tank. I like the visibility factor.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Driving

• This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.

  

  Gary Hart
  • You
  • Leave
  • San Francisco

• I've been trying to write a book since before I was old enough to vote, and I've collected many rejection slips from publishers and magazines. I used to keep them all stuck to my refrigerator, with magnets, but an ex-girlfriend told me they were depressing, and defeatist, and suggested I take them down. A very wise suggestion on her part.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Wise
  • Rejection
  • Depressing

• The wraith of Sigmund said. 'You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Religious

• There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Action
  • Sailing

• We're drivin' down the road,I wonder if you know.I'm tryin' so hardNot to get caught up now.But you're just so cool.Run your hands through your hair,Absent mindedly makin' me want you.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Cool
  • Hair

• People are always asking me if I'm frightened, hanging out with al Qaeda, but usually those encounters are one-on-one interviews. I'm talking to people whose views I don't agree with, but that happens all the time.

  

  Lawrence Wright
  • People
  • Time

• The biggest crime of a dictatorship is to eradicate human feelings from people.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People

• I am huge water sports fan. I love to jet ski, speedboat, water ski. So I love to get away to somewhere sunny and just get on the water and have some fun with some friends.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Friends
  • Fun
  • Water

• Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men and women. Women and girls, however, disproportionately experience violence due to a deeply rooted global culture of gender discrimination.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Men
  • Women
  • Live

• If someone uses the uniform, whatever uniform, for partisan politics, I am disappointed because I think it does erode that bond of trust we have with the American people.

  

  Martin Dempsey
  • People
  • American
  • Trust

• NOTHING which life has to offer is worth the price of worry.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Worry
  • Nothing

• But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.

  

  Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
  • Life
  • Live
  • Society

• No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist.

  

  Ananda Coomaraswamy
  • Nature
  • Exist
  • Creature

• I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Morning
  • Greatness
  • Eminence