Rendre Hommage Quotes & Sayings

The founding father of Albanian literature is the nineteenth-century writer Naim Frasheri. Without having the greatness of Dante or Shakespeare, he is nonetheless the founder, the emblematic character. He wrote long epic poems, as well as lyrical poetry, to awaken the national consciousness of Albania. — Ismail Kadare

I think the combination of genius and celebrity, in the case of Bobby Fischer, was a dangerous cocktail. — Liz Garbus

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. — Jesse Owens

I have had the greatest wrestling career in the history of pro wrestling. — Ric Flair

I want to be famous so I can be humble about being famous. What good is my humility when I am stuck in this obscurity? — David Budbill

We had principles in mathematics that were granted to be absolute in mathematics for over 800 years, but new science has gotten rid of those absolutism, gotten forward other different logics of looking at mathematics, and sort of turned the way we look at it as a science altogether after 800 years. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft-a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less. — Ken Thompson

Until you try, you don't know what you can't do. — Henry James

This wordly life is like a shadow. If you try to catch it, you will never be able to do so. If you turn your back towards it, it has no choice but to follow you. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Whistleblowers is another aspect that needs to be addressed. We have to restore the protections of whistleblowers and also the encouragement and rewards. It shouldn't just be that they don't get crucified; it should be that they are again folk heroes, or celebrated for bringing critical matters to public attention, as opposed to traitors. — Ted Gup

President Obama is in China. Also in China is evil Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. They're both in China at the same time. It's like running into your ex-girlfriend on vacation. — David Letterman

ANACAMPTICK (ANACA'MPTICK) adj.[ or reflected: an anacamptick sound, an echo; an anacamptick hill, a hill that produces an echo. — Samuel Johnson

If one man does not make a move, the other must, and by permitting the adversary to make the attack one learns something about him. — Agatha Christie

I love a little distortion across the bass; I think it kind of adds something to the sound of the band when the bass is a little overdriven. — Nikki Sixx

Office life is very, very strange. It's like no other way of living. You have an intimacy with people who you work with in the office, yet if you meet them on the streets, you both look the other way because you're embarrassed. — John Banville