Use Quotes - Page 163

Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else

If you can't pronounce a word correctly, just don't use it.

A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.

The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts

I've learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.

It is a confession of the weakness of our own faith in the righteousness of our cause when we attempt to suppress by law those who do not agree with us.

At a certain point, I stopped seeing my clothing worn by people on the streets . . . It seemed like they were being treated as museum items.

You use sex to express every emotion except love.

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes.

Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,—Macbeth shall sleep no more!

Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.

One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.

A protest meeting on the issue of environmental abuse is not a convocation of accusers, it is a convocation of the guilty. The realization ought to clear the smog of self-righteousness that has always conventionally hovered over these occasions, and let us see the work that is to be done.

One principle problem of educating software engineers is that they will not use a new method until they believe it works and, more importantly, that they will not believe the method will work until they see it for themselves.

Those times when you feel like quitting can be times of great opportunity, for God uses your troubles to help you grow.

Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market movements, inadequate diversification, the payment of high and unnecessary fees to managers and advisors, and the use of borrowed money can destroy the decent returns that a life-long owner of equities would otherwise enjoy. Indeed, borrowed money has no place in the investor's tool kit.

Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice.

Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash value; then you are adding to the life of the world by every business transaction

[Photography was necessary to] make my place in the art-world: in order to do this, I had to make a picture, since a picture was what a gallery or museum was meant to hold (all the while, of course, I was claiming that I was denying the standard, rejecting it...)

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.

Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.

It isnecessary to destroy the pretended nobility, entirely literaryand traditional, of marble and bronze? The sculptor can use twenty different materials, or even more, in a single work, provided that the plastic emotion requires it.