Upped The Ante Quotes & Sayings

I Dolci Libri

Rizzoli, the famed Italian purveyor of art tomes has over the years produced an entire library of gorgeous coffee table books. With the additional Universe imprint and partnerships with Flammarion and Skira the company has upped the ante on modernism in hardcover with a stack of architecture and design books that are as much nourishment for the mind as cannoli for the eye. Rizzoli's editors have their fingers on the pulse of what's happening right now and next in design in the United States and abroad. — Metropolitan Home

With MTV in the '80s, you made your album but then you needed to use any money you made to create a video - instead of being able to use that money to pay for you and your band to live on while you wrote new songs. So MTV upped the ante of looking for one hit. Conceptual bands who didn't have a hit were going to lose. — Mark Mothersbaugh

Aha! I take my three keys on my ring (car, house, El's) and hold my hand in a fist so that each of the keys is peeking out from between my fingers. I remember seeing this on a self-denfense special of Maury. Television saves lives. — Julie Murphy

The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The band's filter, but playing live is a lot of fun. — Elliott Smith

You upped the ante with the wrong vampire, Caitlin. — Lindsay J. Pryor

History is guided by leaders in turn affected by the sentiments of their population. Such sentiments are cyclical, allowing for predictions of a nation's fall. — Will Slatyer

Love, he thought. That too is love. The old miracle. It not only casts a rainbow of dreams against the gray sky of facts - it also sheds romantic light upon a heap of dung - a miracle and a mad mockery. Suddenly he had the strange feeling of having become, in a remote way, an accomplice. — Erich Maria Remarque

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of mans humanity to a man. — Maya Angelou

We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep". — Francis Bacon

The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman. — William Sloane Coffin

It is the '94 race which in many ways allowed Ted Kennedy to become his own man rather than the 'third brother.' He had to reach down and win it on his own. — Chuck Todd