All Quotes

An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
‐‐ Jane Austen

An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.
‐‐ Maeve Binchy

An English man does not travel to see English men.
‐‐ Laurence Sterne

An English summer's day is wonderful, but sometimes you have to look hard to find one!
‐‐ Romain Grosjean

An Englishman bears with patience any ridicule which foreigners cast upon him. John Bull never laughs so loudly as when he laughs at himself; but the Americans are nationally sensitive and cannot endure that good-humoured raillery which jests at their weaknesses and foibles.
‐‐ Isabella Bird

An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.
‐‐ George Chapman

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
‐‐ George Mikes

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
‐‐ A. P. Herbert

An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.
‐‐ Alan Jay Lerner

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
‐‐ A. J. Liebling

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
‐‐ Daniel Defoe

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.
‐‐ Austin O'Malley

An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
‐‐ Pankaj Mishra

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
‐‐ Robert Anton Wilson

An enormous amount of a writer's life is performance. I find myself wondering, at the moment, whether I do too much of it.
‐‐ Nick Harkaway

An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.
‐‐ Leon Kass

An enormous amount of ingenuity and creativity goes into commercials, and they can be fascinating if you pay attention.
‐‐ Gretchen Rubin

An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk about the solar system model of the atom as though the atom were like a sun and moon and planets.
‐‐ Steven Pinker

An enormous number of mothers in the U.S. are working double time, graveyard shifts, and more than one job just to put food on the table for their kids.
‐‐ Tina Brown

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
‐‐ Alfred North Whitehead

An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.
‐‐ Gary Hamel

An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.
‐‐ Kate Smith

An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.
‐‐ George Haven Putnam

An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
‐‐ Bayard Taylor

An entire empire built on teenage angst, yes? Thank you, John Hughes!
‐‐ Kristan Higgins

An entire nation, it seemed, was standing in one long breadline, desperate for even the barest essentials. It was a crisis of monumental proportions. It was known as the Great Depression.
‐‐ Kathi Appelt

An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.
‐‐ Victor Kiam

An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
‐‐ Bill Drayton

An entrepreneur must deal with more uncertainty than a professional with a well-defined role.
‐‐ Peter Thiel

An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made.
‐‐ Daymond John

An entrepreneur needs to know what they need, period. Then they need to find an investor who can build off whatever their weaknesses are - whether that's through money, strategic partnerships or knowledge.
‐‐ Daymond John

An entrepreneurial mind is always looking for new opportunities.
‐‐ Ricardo Salinas Pliego

An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small farmers and to the decent ethic of husbandry those farmers live by. A religious person can oppose factory farming because it is degrading to both man and animal - an offense to God.
‐‐ Matthew Scully

An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
‐‐ Lascelles Abercrombie

An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.
‐‐ Irvin S. Cobb

An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It's a nice thing to collect because you can't go after them, you just come upon them. In 25 years I've only found about 12.
‐‐ Miranda July

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
‐‐ Orlando Aloysius Battista

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
‐‐ Henri Frederic Amiel

An escalating, violent tit-for-tat may lead to terrorism.
‐‐ Mary Douglas

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
‐‐ Mitch Hedberg

An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play.
‐‐ Cynthia Ozick

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
‐‐ Edwin Land

An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.
‐‐ George Weinberg

An essential part of teaching children to be disciplined and responsible is to have them learn to work.
‐‐ James E. Faust

An established film director can just pick up the phone and say to a star, 'Hey, are you interested in doing a commercial?'
‐‐ Tony Scott

An established property can be a blessing and a challenge. On one hand you have all those fans of the original that you can pick up with and continue on with but then you have a lot of people out there who haven't seen the first and might feel like this isn't a movie for them because of that.
‐‐ Joseph Kosinski

An estimated 2 million American women will be diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer this decade and screening could prevent up to 30% of these deaths for women over 40.
‐‐ Matthew Lesko