All Quotes

Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.
‐‐ E. T. A. Hoffmann

Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist.
‐‐ Edward Dmytryk

Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.
‐‐ Zahi Hawass

Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.
‐‐ Glenn Beck

Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture.
‐‐ Giraldus Cambrensis

Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake.
‐‐ Robert Half

Not after the big bust in '92, there's no big drug lifestyle anymore. I can't talk about it. Pretty ugly.
‐‐ Gene Ween

'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right.
‐‐ Dee Dee Myers

Not all actresses know how to express their looks, I think. For me, it's an on-again, off-again thing. I'm still struggling.
‐‐ Rinko Kikuchi

Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.
‐‐ Martin Freeman

Not all artists have a responsibility to be socially or politically aware, but they do have a responsibility to make great art. They have to find some truth and put that in their music.
‐‐ Michael Franti

Not all celebrities are dunces.
‐‐ Carroll O'Connor

Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.
‐‐ Dave Barry

Not all eagles can be trained, but those who take to life with a master display intense loyalty. Although they are not tethered, they always return after killing their prey.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

Not all Greeks are ready to do whatever is necessary to stay in the euro.
‐‐ Mario Monti

Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine.
‐‐ Georg Hermes

Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
‐‐ Palaniappan Chidambaram

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.
‐‐ Roger Tory Peterson

Not all journalists are really journalists. They ask such stupid questions sometimes, especially the newer ones, and because... these people can't tell if you're joking around, you just can't have any sense of humour; you really can't.
‐‐ Ray Liotta

Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?
‐‐ Stephen LaBerge

Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government because of the disengagement.
‐‐ Norman Lamm

Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.
‐‐ Pope Benedict XVI

Not all Muslims wish to express themselves in public through a communal religious identity. Identities are multiple, and some may wish to speak instead just as citizens in their professional capacity, through their political party, or their neighborhood body.
‐‐ Maajid Nawaz

Not all my shoes are designer. In terms of clothes, everything is on the same level for me. If I like it, it doesn't matter if it cost £200 or £2. I'm attracted to things rather than labels.
‐‐ Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Not all of E. Nesbit's children's books are fantasies, but even the most realistic somehow seem magical. In her holiday world, nobody ever goes to school, though all the kids know their English history, Greek myths, and classic tales of derring-do.
‐‐ Michael Dirda

Not all of our work is dark, but when we are working on a dark project, we really tend to go there.
‐‐ Erich Hoeber

Not all of the Islamic State killers are going to die on the battlefield.
‐‐ James Comey

Not all of those who cry 'The poor, the poor!' will enter the kingdom of heaven.
‐‐ Michael Novak

Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.
‐‐ Kaley Cuoco

Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity for the sake of just moving ahead. If it's a good script, I would sacrifice my personal time and grab it.
‐‐ Rani Mukerji

Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.
‐‐ Aaron Sorkin

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.
‐‐ Sarah Kay

Not all political actors share our vision of fighting terrorism, lessening tensions in the region and focusing on building the economy. It is natural that they would challenge the government, but we have fought every challenge effectively. The daily ups and down of democracy should not be interpreted as lack of stability.
‐‐ Asif Ali Zardari

Not all political prisoners are innocents.
‐‐ David Remnick

Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.
‐‐ Andy Grove

Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom.
‐‐ Robert D. Hare

Not all Republicans are rich, dress in three-piece suits, and have $200 haircuts. I'm somebody who's lived from paycheck to paycheck. I'm focusing on my blue-collar roots - I've worked side by side with union people.
‐‐ Joe Wurzelbacher

Not all roles you do can be chocolate sweet.
‐‐ Kabir Bedi

Not all series books are sagas. Some are shaped more like beads on a string, separate episodes held together by a set of characters, who may or may not grow and change as the series continues.
‐‐ Katharine Kerr

Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy people are lazy. And not all the obese are gluttons. There are glands and diabetes and a dozen conditions you never heard of that may account for things. Put your sermon through the counter-stereotype sieve.
‐‐ John Piper

Not all stories translate well when read out loud.
‐‐ Lynn Cohen

Not all teammates tell the truth.
‐‐ Mario Andretti

Not all television scripts are created equal. And the process is ridiculous. They send you a script and want you in the next morning. That's not how acting works. You can do anything to me as an actor; I'm a very resilient guy. Just don't rush me. If you ask me to do it immediately with no time to prepare, I know you have contempt for actors.
‐‐ Holt McCallany

Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are doing it, I know it is systematic throughout the United States military I think that's been revealed.
‐‐ John Pilger

Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.
‐‐ Mary Harris Jones

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.
‐‐ Sophocles

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Not all those who wander are lost.
‐‐ J. R. R. Tolkien