Lewis Mumford Quotes
On one side is the gigantic printing press, a miracle of fine articulation, which turns out the tabloid newspaper: on the other side are the contents of the tabloid itself, symbolically recording the most crude and elementary states of emotion.Lewis Mumford
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No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
Ornette Coleman -
I agree with my colleagues, even the one who just preceded me, that marijuana is probably a dangerous drug, and I would not suggest that we do anything to encourage its use.
Dana Rohrabacher -
I read a lot of true crime growing up – 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.
Karin Slaughter -
We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.
Barney Ross -
Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
O. J. Simpson -
I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
Oscar Wilde
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When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.
Cameron Russell -
The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
Felix Adler -
I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.
Oliver North -
My mother read me biblical stories at night.
Malcolm Gladwell -
I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are.
Wallace Shawn -
I learned long ago that the most effective way to compete is to play your own game, and I've been competing with men my whole life.
Carly Fiorina
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There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead -
I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.
Ted Lindsay -
I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.
Oscar Wilde -
Ye have committed wickedness Against the Creator. A hundred thousand angels Are to me witnesses, Who came to conduct me After my hanging, When hanging cruelly, Myself to deliver me In heaven there was trembling When I had been hung. When I cried out Eli!
Taliesin -
'I hate you, I hate you!' cried Madeline, a thing I didn't know anyone ever said except in the second act of a musical comedy.
P. G. Wodehouse -
American research and resources have literally changed the face of humanity, by tackling deadly and once-deadly diseases.
Kathleen Sebelius
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Till I was 13, I thought my name was 'Shut Up.'
Joe Namath -
The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins.
Marianne Williamson -
you cannot leave a report like this on the table.
Jack Straw -
I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including the dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life is heading.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Ten masts make not the altitude Which thou hast perpendicularly fell. Thy life's a miracle.
William Shakespeare -
On one side is the gigantic printing press, a miracle of fine articulation, which turns out the tabloid newspaper: on the other side are the contents of the tabloid itself, symbolically recording the most crude and elementary states of emotion.
Lewis Mumford