Aznavour Emmenez Quotes & Sayings

I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes, - a justifier of the most appalling barbarity, - a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds, - and a dark shelter under, which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of the slaveholders find the strongest protection. Were I to be again reduced to the chains of slavery, next to enslavement, I should regard being the slave of a religious master the greatest calamity that could befall me. For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others. — Frederick Douglass

All creative work has its greatest reality while it is still in a man's mind, before he begins to execute it. — John Prebble

I have always been physically active. I grew up a tomboy and [was] into sports, so staying active is something that I enjoy. — Tricia Helfer

There are some people who do not have a wild past because being wild would make them terribly self-conscious and uncomfortable. — Emily Yoffe

What is surprising, even deeply disturbing, is the way that many individuals who consider themselves democratic, even-handed, rational, and free of prejudice, hold on tenaciously to a standard language ideology which attempts to justify restriction of individuality and rejection of the Other — Rosina Lippi-Green

Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration. — Donald Knuth

Later in life, as I competed against the banks, I would think back to this moment, and it gave me confidence. All the bankers did was copy what everyone else did. — Ashlee Vance

What the human mind can conceive and believe it can accomplish. — David Sarnoff

That was the deal basically: catatonia without; frenzy within — Jeffrey Eugenides

As Lawrence Lessig has so persuasively argued over the years, there is nothing "natural" about the artificial scarcity of intellectual property law. — Steven Johnson

There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean. — Carrie Underwood