Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.

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• When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • People
  • Fun
  • Control

• I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.

  

  Barbara McClintock
  • Life
  • Thought
  • Better

• I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Thinking
  • Better
  • Start

• I'm still very much a believer in the spontaneity of certain kinds of writing. But then you have to eventually, when you're writing a long play, make adjustments along the way - all kinds of adjustments.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Play

• If you have reservations about the system and want to change it, the democratic argument goes, do so within the system: put yourself forward as a candidate for political office, subject yourself to the scrutiny and the vote of fellow citizens. Democracy does not allow for politics outside the democratic system. In this sense, democracy is totalitarian.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Political
  • Democracy

• As a philosopher sympathetic to Foucault recently remarked to me, Foucault failed in each of his major inquiries and, in desperation, went further afield from his areas of expertise. The History of Sexuality is a disaster. Page after page is sheer fantasy, unsupported by the ancient or modern historical record.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • History

• Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable. The End.

  

  Bertrand Russell

• He is like a cat. And all cats are thieves.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Cat

• We are told in the White Paper that there is danger against which we have to guard ourselves. We do not think you can do it by national defence. We think you can only do it by moving forward to a new world – a world of law, the abolition of national armaments with a world force and a world economic system. I shall be told that that is quite impossible.

  

  Clement Attlee
  • World
  • Law
  • Moving

• Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.

  

  Lillian Gordy Carter

• I admire cool renderings of hot topics.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Cool

• I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together.

  

  Kim Novak
  • Together

• I appreciate what others have done in the past especially for my genre, and my style of singing. And they sure put a footprint - you know, they got the foot in the door, but I'm going to put my foot straight through the door.

  

  James Durbin Quiet Riot
  • Done
  • Past
  • Style

• If I continue to work as a coach, it is because my passion and love for football, for the players, is still there.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Football

• Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio.

  

  Elliott Carter

• Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.

  

  Don Miguel Ruiz
  • Believe

• I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear.

  

  Desmond Dekker

• When I wear Chanel, I feel like I'm not just wearing clothes: I'm wearing Chanel.

  

  G-Dragon

• Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Matter
  • Natural

• I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

  

  Clara Barton
  • Wonder
  • Soldier
  • Bullet

• Life is short, and time is swift; Roses fade, and shadows shift.

  

  Ebenezer Elliott
  • Roses
  • Life Is Short
  • Swift

• I think Berklee College of Music had the highest dropout rate of any college - or pretend college - in the United States. Because I think most people think they're going to be in Green Day or whatever, and you actually have to learn about music you don't care for, too. I mean, I cared for a great deal of music; it's just that I didn't want to submerge myself into the well of fusion jazz.

  

  Brendon Small
  • Music
  • College
  • Learn

• The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Inferiors
  • Tyrannies
  • Insupportable