All Quotes

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

In an era when information can be sent instantaneously anywhere, it is utterly nonsensical that our Nation's police, the fire, and EMS personnel cannot consistently communicate with each other.
‐‐ Bill Pascrell

In an era when party fundraising is badly tainted, dinners are a really good way of raising cash for campaigning. Lots of people giving very small amounts of money through ticket sales and raffle prizes: yes, it's much harder work than big donations, but I think it's a more democratic and transparent way of fundraising.
‐‐ Lucy Powell

In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you make an intellectual or psychological discovery. But when you write fiction, you don't know where you are going - sometimes down to the last paragraph - and that is the pleasure of it.
‐‐ Cynthia Ozick

In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.
‐‐ Ze Frank

In an ever changing world, you never learn it all, even if you keep growing into your 90s.
‐‐ John P. Kotter

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
‐‐ Quentin Crisp

In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged purchases of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin calls. As a result, gold can be very volatile - upward and downward - at the peak of a crisis.
‐‐ Nouriel Roubini

In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.
‐‐ Gary Hamel

In an ideal world for me, school lunch would be free for everybody.
‐‐ Tom Colicchio

In an ideal world, I'd be able to do my shows in my pajamas. Luckily I've got one of the best stylists in the business, Rebecca Allen - she knows what looks good on camera and gives it a sexy kick.
‐‐ Anne Robinson

In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts.
‐‐ David Yates

In an ideal world, I'd like to carry on acting, but I don't want it to interfere with my studies.
‐‐ Ellie Kendrick

In an ideal world, I'd love to work on something that is on par with 'Lost' or better than 'Lost.'
‐‐ Henry Ian Cusick

In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
‐‐ Vanessa Mae

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.
‐‐ Alastair Campbell

In an ideal world, nobody's work would be just about the money. People could pursue excellence in what they do, take pride in achievement, and derive meaning from knowing that their work improved the lives of others.
‐‐ Barry Schwartz

In an ideal world, the amount of money we spend on medical research to prevent or cure a disease would be proportional to its seriousness and the number of people who suffer from it.
‐‐ Peter Singer

In an ideal world, the perfect biographical subject would have been the star of his penmanship class at grade school - and would thereafter write an English that positively sings.
‐‐ Stacy Schiff

In an ideal world, we would charge people a $10,000 success fee when they get married or a $5,000 success fee if they enter into a relationship with someone. Unfortunately, that's a little bit hard to track, although someday maybe we'll get around to that.
‐‐ Sam Yagan

In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both India and Pakistan agreeing to guarantee those borders, demilitarise the area, and to invest in it economically. In a sane world that would happen, but we don't live in a sane world.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

In an ideal world, you'd never have to do things that are below your position, but this isn't an ideal world, and it's never going to be.
‐‐ Sophia Amoruso

In an ideal world, you might imagine that scientific papers were only cited by academics on the basis of their content. This might be true. But lots of other stuff can have an influence.
‐‐ Ben Goldacre

In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have.
‐‐ Noah Feldman

In an Indian kitchen, the focus is on getting the job or dish done right in whatever way possible; however, in a French kitchen there's a clear hierarchy, and a chef has to know where their skills are and not go beyond them.
‐‐ Manish Dayal

In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball's different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There's a lot of great individual talent.
‐‐ Kobe Bryant

In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.
‐‐ Christopher Lasch

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
‐‐ Raoul Vaneigem

In an industry with highly sequential innovation, it may be better for society to scrap patents altogether than try to tighten them.
‐‐ Eric Maskin

In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.
‐‐ John Naisbitt

In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The stranger the mutt the better; the more peculiar the circumstance of it coming into your life, the better.
‐‐ Susan Orlean

In an interview, I lose control even of what I am, for it is the interviewer who edits me, finally, into what he thinks I am, and never have I been happy with someone else's version of my life after that person has spent an entire two or three hours fathoming it.
‐‐ Mark Helprin

In an interview with a journalist, you look petty taking the pot shot but in a slick ad you can really do damage - including unfair damage - from afar. It is not that much different than waging a war by a drone than by hand-to-hand combat.
‐‐ Greta Van Susteren

In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable.
‐‐ Dan Savage

In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.
‐‐ Maajid Nawaz

In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art.
‐‐ Julian Barnes

In an ordinary suit and tie, I'd look like a little macho. I'd be ridiculous.
‐‐ Azzedine Alaia

In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a global whole - a whole which can be identified by everyone who is part of it.
‐‐ Christopher Alexander

In an organic system you don't waste anything. We need to educate the consumer to accept a tiny blemish on an orange.
‐‐ Robert Patterson

In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
‐‐ Madalyn Murray O'Hair

In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.
‐‐ Jonathan Raban

In an undergraduate business environment, the best learning experience is the interaction students have with each other. They need to learn from each other as much as from professors and lectures and other teaching tools.
‐‐ Gerry Schwartz

In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.
‐‐ Kenneth More

In an urban area, you're not going to be an hour away from another post office.
‐‐ Blake Farenthold

In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.
‐‐ Mark Batterson

In ancient African cultures, a young man was not considered a full member of the tribe, an elder, a man. He couldn't marry and he couldn't own land until he had killed a lion. It was symbolic.
‐‐ John Eldredge

In ancient British times, the whole country belonged to tribes, and the tribes owned their several districts. At the head of each tribe was the chief.
‐‐ Sabine Baring-Gould

In ancient China, self-government was highly developed both in community life and in personal life. The custom of mutual protection and assistance was widespread. The organization and regulations of local self-government were clearly defined and strictly applied. Individual self-control was even more strongly emphasized.
‐‐ Chiang Kai-shek

In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.
‐‐ George Papandreou