Alphonse Karr Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
-
Dear London, British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across the country. With your help, we would like to see these numbers rise for the good of our industry, our talented designers, and our reputation worldwide.
-
It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
-
To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
-
I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
-
There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
-
'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.
-
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
-
Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
-
My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work.
-
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
-
But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished.
-
Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
-
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
-
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
-
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
-
Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
-
Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.
-
I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.
-
In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.
-
I wasn't very confident about clothes; I was always hunting through racks, never sure what looked right. It can be like that again when you're older.
-
Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.
-
When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics.
-
If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.
