Tidenation Quotes & Sayings

I think we're raising whole generations who regard facts as more or less optional.
We have kids in elementary school who are being urged to take stands on political issues, to write letters to congressmen and presidents about nuclear energy.
They're not a decade old, and they're being thrown these kinds of questions that can absorb the lifetime of a very brilliant and learned man. And they're being taught that it's important to have views, and they're not being taught that it's important to know what you're talking about.
It's important to hear the opposite viewpoint, and more important to learn how to distinguish why viewpoint A and viewpoint B are different, and which one has the most evidence or logic behind it. They disregard that. They hear something, they hear some rhetoric, and they run with it. — Thomas Sowell

I am not an ornithologist - I am a bird. — Saul Bellow

Women have no appreciation of good looks-at least, good women have not. — Oscar Wilde

I wanted to design the house around my body and my needs, instead of following the pattern that I'd fallen into in my big house: picking paint colors and finishing the woodwork with some future owner and salability in mind. This was going to be my house. — Dee Williams

At least in Russia, you cannot just go and tap into someone's phone conversation without a warrant issued by court. That's more or less the way a civilized society should go about fighting terrorism. — Vladimir Putin

Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter. — Andy Rooney

From their point of view, I had gone too far. I had to disappear. That is to say, if the Algerian army had not overthrown me, others would have done so. — Ahmed Ben Bella

When you're doing a movie, your body doesn't allow you to get sick until you finish. — Johnny Depp

I told him there was one city that they must not bomb without my permission and that was Kyoto. — Henry L. Stimson

She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world. — Joanne Harris

Every extension of the functions and power of the State beyond its primary duty of maintaining peace and justice should be scrutinized with jealous vigilance. — Ludwig Von Mises

The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end. — Zinedine Zidane

I was a twenty-two-year-old single white female alone in a strange country where my sister had been killed. — Karen Marie Moning

Any actor will tell you that you go where the work is, especially when you have children. — Nicole Ari Parker

If people understood how the economic system works, there'd be a revolution in a minute. — Henry Ford