Khwarizmi Empire Quotes & Sayings

A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead pipes for the transport and supply of drinking water. Roman engineers, the best in the world, turned their fellow citizens into cripples. Today our own "best and brightest," with the best of intentions, achieve the same end through childhood vaccination programmes yielding the modern scourges of hyperactivity, learning disabilities, autism, appetite disorders, and impulsive violence. — Harris L Coulter

I pretty much spent my twenties as a musician and taking acting classes. I loved it. I was at UCLA getting As and Bs in English and creative writing, basically trying to stay out of the Army. All I really wanted to do was play music. — Robert David Hall

Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing. — Stella Benson

Consider the concepts referred to in the words 'where', 'when', 'why', 'being', to the elucidation of which innumerable volumes of philosophy have been devoted. We fare no better in our speculations than a fish which should strive to become clear as to what is water. — Albert Einstein

Of course it's difficult to turn anything down when Mike Nichols calls you personally. — Andrea Martin

You are my star in the days of darkness; and light up my heart at all times. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn't want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over! — Jason Aldean

Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste. — William Feather

The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap. — Alice Waters

Fluorescent lights on the ceiling lit up the white Formica top of her desk like an operating table, white-sand beach at high noon, French fries under the heat lamp at McDonald's. — Dennis Vickers

I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself. — Henry David Thoreau

I shall accord to myself the honor of inscribing myself as an applicant for the American citizenship which according to law I can obtain only after five years residence in this country. And I shall yield to no one of my future countrymen in patriotism. I consider America now my real home. — Wilhelm Steinitz

Performance is something we all strive to be better at. I'm no different than that. Who wants to look bad? — Kevin Garnett

Think of what would happen to us ... if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record. — Thomas Lansing Masson