All Quotes

Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there's been an Axl Rose. And it's just boring. It's totally boring to me.
‐‐ Kurt Cobain

Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk.
‐‐ Jeff Goodell

Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.
‐‐ Karen Armstrong

Ever since the decision of Robin Thicke and Pharrell, we believe that it was important to make sure that we are safe. When that Robin Thicke verdict came out, we realized that the game had changed in music.
‐‐ Jidenna

Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect.
‐‐ James Buchan

Ever since the end of Medieval feudalism, and the writings of John Locke, we have understood the importance of being able to buy and sell one's own property, including books and watches, both for reasons of economics and liberty.
‐‐ Marvin Ammori

Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the function of the scientist was to figure out the mathematical rules whereby the universe was created.
‐‐ Eric Kandel

Ever since the first 'American Pie,' I've always been happy to just have an opportunity, I just didn't think it was going to be with comedies. Now I really like it.
‐‐ Sean William Scott

Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
‐‐ John Berger

Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!
‐‐ Morris West

Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown interest in those fields is not regenerated soon, the comfortable lifestyle to which Americans have become accustomed will draw to a rapid close.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

Ever since the infamous quiz show scandals of the 1950s, the feds had insisted that TV game shows be honest - or that at least they didn't cheat. So as a 'Dating Game' bachelor, I didn't know what I was going to be asked. The other bachelors and I were required to concoct our answers in real time.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

Ever since the kids were babies, we have treated them with respect. We are the mom and dad for sure, but we look for opportunities for us to sit down and say, 'How are things going for you? Is there anything that we can do as parents to help you? Let's all come up with a solution together.' We work better as a team.
‐‐ Jodi Benson

Ever since the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan has turned its back on Asia in general and China in particular: its pattern of aggression from 1895 onwards and the colonies that resulted were among the consequences.
‐‐ Martin Jacques

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.
‐‐ Edmund Hillary

Ever since the movie premiered at Cannes, I've had a sudden surge of scripts and interest.
‐‐ Berenice Bejo

Ever since the romantic comedy-drama 'She's Gotta Have It' antagonized black women and black men in 1986, Spike Lee's films have enjoyed the outrage of various groups.
‐‐ Lee Siegel

Ever since the Second World War, television signals (as well as FM radio and radar) have served as Homo sapiens' emissaries into deep space. High-frequency, high-power broadcasts have filled an Earth-centered bubble more than 60 light-years in radius with signals.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

Ever since the world began, it has been the belief of mankind that desolate places are the special haunt of supernatural beings.
‐‐ Richard Jefferies

Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat.
‐‐ George C. Williams

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.
‐‐ Satyajit Ray

Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.
‐‐ Hanna Rosin

Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.
‐‐ James D. Watson

Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.
‐‐ Aubrey de Grey

Ever since we published the first Apple report, we've had some other brands turning more proactive.
‐‐ Ma Jun

Ever since we've had electronic communications, and particularly during a time of war, presidents have authorized the electronic surveillance of the enemy.
‐‐ Alberto Gonzales

Ever since we were little, we were so on fire for our dreams. We never let anyone blow our flames out.
‐‐ Kelly Rowland

Ever since Willie Nelson brought rednecks into an alliance with hippies back in the psychedelic '70s, Austin has milked its quirky libertarian spirit for a worldwide bonanza of free publicity.
‐‐ Douglas Brinkley

Ever since Woodward and Bernstein, there's sort of been an epidemic of confidential sources in Washington, in particular where people will actually - when you call them up on the phone, they'll say, 'This is off the record,' or, 'This is on background,' or they don't even wait for you to say anything.
‐‐ Lowell Bergman

Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the means to wreak destruction.
‐‐ Saul David

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
‐‐ Samuel Beckett

Ever tried to get sleep in a hospital? Ever wonder if anyone even taught them what care is? Some hospitals are great, but some sure aren't.
‐‐ Dave deBronkart

Ever up and onward.
‐‐ Billy Strayhorn

Everest is not real climbing. It's rich people climbing. It's a trophy on the wall, and they're done... When I say I wish I'd never gone, I really mean that.
‐‐ Jon Krakauer

Evergreen had opened up a whole new world to me. There I met many internationally celebrated people: there I was surrounded by the best art and music, as well as conversation. I knew I could never return to the life I had led before.
‐‐ Billy Baldwin

'Everwood' I think provides a unique feeling, an emotional experience. And other shows on TV don't have the acting talent to do that. Each one of our actors can do a serious scene and a humorous scene, and can do it all within the same sequence. They can go from a heartbreaking moment to a humorous moment.
‐‐ Greg Berlanti

Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.
‐‐ Paul Haggis

Every 10 years or so, there was a moment when I'd say, even subconsciously, 'Is that all there is?' You've got to find ways to keep it fresh for yourself.
‐‐ Nora Ephron

Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.
‐‐ Martin Amis

Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band needs to come out.
‐‐ Steven Adler

Every 16-year-old person has a love for pop in them because pop is popular.
‐‐ Halsey

Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
‐‐ Barbara Broccoli

Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm. Don't be ashamed because you're human: be proud! Inside you, vaults behind vaults open endlessly. You will never be finished, and that's as it should be.
‐‐ Tomas Transtromer

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
‐‐ Oliver Goldsmith

Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to the benevolence of that power. When I look at the universe and all the ways the universe wants to kill us, I find it hard to reconcile that with statements of beneficence.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

Every accountable child of God needs to set goals, short- and long-range goals. A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet, and once a goal is accomplished, others can be set up.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
‐‐ Jean Piaget

Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.
‐‐ Ellen G. White

Every act I see, their whole act is choreographed. I'm sick of seeing these dancers. The only reason they have them is they don't have enough talent to get people dancing themselves.
‐‐ Ronnie Spector