13148 Quotes & Sayings

Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker. — Karl Marx

There was a man called Chaumette, scruffy and sharp-featured. He hated the aristocrats and he also hated prostitutes, and the two things used to get quite confused in his mind. — Hilary Mantel

I want the principles of a timeless muse, I want to eradicate my negative views. — Lou Reed

What I've always found interesting in gardens is looking at what people choose to plant there. What they put in. What they leave out. One small choice and then another, and soon there is a mood, an atmosphere, a series of limitations, a world. — Helen Humphreys

I love my haters, they rage and rage and all they do is spreading my word. — James Yeager

It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination. — Akira Kurosawa

Hickory dickory dock my daddy's nuts from shellshock. — Dalton Trumbo

Science does not deny religion, it just offers a simpler alternative. — Stephen Hawking

The business of an animal is not only to reproduce (which is common to all living things), but they all of them also participate in a kind of knowledge (some more, some less, some very little indeed), because they have sense-perception, which is a kind of knowledge. But the worth we assign it hinges on whether we look at it compared with intelligence or with the class of lifeless things. Compared with intelligence it seems like almost nothing to have a share of touch and taste alone, but compared with the absence of all sensation it appears a great thing. For even this form of knowledge would appear a precious thing compared with lying in a state of death or of nonexistence. - Aristotle, Generation of Animals — Michael Augros

I hoped that, you know, France wouldn't mind about, you know, the wife of their president to having a job. — Carla Bruni