Adam Clayton Powell Famous Quotes & Sayings

I do think that copyrights and intellectual property are important - it's important to be able to keep people from making verbatim copies of a particular creation that could somehow hurt the creator. If I spend time conceiving and making a piece of art and somebody else sees that it has market value and replicates it in order to steal part of my market, then that's not cool. — Shepard Fairey

I loved high school, but I wouldn't want to do it again. — Tom Lehrer

If you're driving your car and someone winds the window down and gives you the finger and calls you an asshole, instead of giving him the finger back and calling him an asshole back, you just pull a funny face, and he doesn't know how to react to that, because you're using different rules. — Steve Coogan

The ability to understand the cause of your own suffering gives you the ability to understand ours. — Byron Katie

Don't let us quarrel. We all have our weaknesses, dear friends; so we must strive to be considerate of one another. And since this poor boy is hungry and has nothing whatver to eat, let us all remain quiet and allow him to sleep; for it is said that in sleep a mortal may forget even hunger. - Scarecrow — L. Frank Baum

I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule? — George Wald

I want a house with a garden, but slap bang in the centre of London. Next door to a sushi bar. — Michelle Dockery

Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert. — Michael Ondaatje

I am not a sentimental person. — Jack Kevorkian

When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to. — Thom Gunn