1559 W Quotes & Sayings

For students to understand what the future of journalism is going to be, they're going to have to invent it. It's a big idea. We don't know what journalism is going to look like in the next three years, let alone the next 10 years. — Steve Blank

'The Prince's blunt candor has been a scandal for 500 years. The book was placed on the Papal Index of banned books in 1559, and its author was denounced on the Elizabethan stages of London as the 'Evil Machiavel.' The outrage has not dimmed with time. — Michael Ignatieff

I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer a visual medium. — Lee Strobel

Who is the most worthy of admiration, musician or audience?
Probably the musician will tell that his audience and the musician that his audience — Miguel El Portugues

The only job that ever really worked for me was teaching because you are your own master once you get into the room. You just have to show up on time and talk about what you care about. — Eileen Myles

Don't worry about me. I'll be getting on with it. — Morgan Callan Rogers

Modern man worships at the temple of science, but science tells him only what is possible, not what is right. — Milton S. Eisenhower

If our highly pointed triangles of the soldier class are formidable, it may be readily inferred that far more formidable are our women. For if a soldier is a wedge, a women is a needle; being, so to speak, all point, at least at the two extremities. Add to this the power of making herself practically invisible at will, and you will perceive that a female, in Flatland, is a creature by no means to be trifled with. — Edwin A. Abbott

I approached writing a story for the CBC Literary Awards as a mercenary venture - $5,000 for one story, not bad. Now, how do you win it? Jurors are wading through skyscrapers of paper, looking for one story that stands out. — Michael Winter

How can someone who has no mouth filter and kills with more glee than I thought humanly possible also coo over seedlings?" "Because they're my babies. And mamas love their babies. — Sarah Lyons Fleming

We try to buy businesses with good-to-superb underlying economics run by honest and able people and buy them at sensible prices. That's all I'm trying to do. — Warren Buffett

The archbishop of St. Andrews threatened that if Knox preached, he would be shot on sight. Knox preached anyway, from Perth to Fife and beyond. As a result, the summer of 1559 saw an extraordinary revival spread throughout Scotland.59 — Douglas Bond

Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration from within. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes. — Alan Keyes

If you know what you want, you will recognize it when you see it. — Bill Cosby

In 1559, Duke Frederick III was summoned before the Emperor Ferdinand I at Breslau to answer the accusations of extravagance and oppression brought against him by the Silesian Estates and was deposed, imprisoned, and his son Henry XI given the Ducal crown instead. — Sabine Baring-Gould

I could be like Joe Kennedy and say, 'My kids are going to run for president!' — John Catsimatidis

A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery so the old women have to have it. — Tyler Perry