All Quotes

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
‐‐ Michel de Montaigne

The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
‐‐ Edmund Phelps

The celebration... you cannot practice it or anything. It's a moment when the excitement of your goal make you react to the moment.
‐‐ Peter Bondra

The celebrity aspect is nothing short of ridiculous, and auditioning is brutal and dehumanizing. Every time I see a pretty young girl on the subway reading sides for an audition, my only thought is, 'Man, am I glad I'm not doing that anymore.' I never feel nostalgia, just relief.
‐‐ Mara Wilson

The celebrity body I most admire is Madonna's. She has the most incredible physique - and the woman's in her 50s!
‐‐ Elisha Cuthbert

The celebrity-chef thing, even at its worst, its most annoying, its silliest, its goofiest, its most egregious and cynical, has been a good thing.
‐‐ Anthony Bourdain

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
‐‐ Daniel J. Boorstin

The celebrity sense of writers is something which is very tempting... But the enthusiasm comes from the fact that it's such a natural activity, storytelling.
‐‐ Jim Crace

The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair.
‐‐ Bruce Dickinson

The cell is a city of production centres, each part working away like mad, and it's co-ordinated. Six trillion cells in a body - you can't help but be moved.
‐‐ Charles Jencks

The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival.
‐‐ Albert Claude

The cell phone companies add to the problem. Every one they give out, they get money for from the federal government. So they have an incentive to give as many away as possible. And that's exactly what they're doing, and they're making a killing.
‐‐ Timothy Griffin

The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging.
‐‐ Margaret Heffernan

The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is feminine because of its soprano pitch. When the cello enters in the Dvorak Concerto, it is like a great orator.
‐‐ Mstislav Rostropovich

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
‐‐ Ritchie Blackmore

The cello is such a versatile instrument. It can rock like the hardest rock guitar, and it can sing like the human voice. We couldn't do what we do without the classical training. It's a hard instrument to play. There are no frets, and it takes finesse and technique to play.
‐‐ Luka Sulic

The cellphone is humanity's biggest platform. If we can't use it to change education or health care, then shame on us.
‐‐ Paul E. Jacobs

The cells of an organism are nodes in a richly interwoven communications network, transmitting and receiving, coding and decoding. Evolution itself embodies an ongoing exchange of information between organism and environment.
‐‐ James Gleick

The Celtic Church as we know it, till gradually brought under Roman discipline, was purely monastic. The monasteries were the centres whence the ministry of souls was exercised.
‐‐ Sabine Baring-Gould

The Celtic folk-tales have been collected while the practice of story-telling is still in full vigour, though there is every sign that its term of life is already numbered.
‐‐ Joseph Jacobs

The Celtic, Galatian, or Gallic nation received from the common mother endowments different from those of its Italian, Germanic, and Hellenic sisters.
‐‐ Theodor Mommsen

The Celtics don't celebrate anything but championships.
‐‐ Paul Pierce

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.
‐‐ Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. It's a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and it's hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.
‐‐ Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
‐‐ Pope John Paul II

The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience.
‐‐ Anurag Kashyap

The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
‐‐ Earl Warren

The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with 'Ulysses,' but also with his other writings. The conventional wisdom is that this is because of sexually explicit passages (and there certainly are those). I have always thought that what the critics hated and feared about Joyce is his cry for human freedom.
‐‐ Karen DeCrow

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.
‐‐ John Pilger

The Census Bureau can ask citizens very invasive questions, and if they don't respond, the government shows up at their door and threatens them with a fine.
‐‐ Jeff Duncan

The census should not be political.
‐‐ Blake Farenthold

The Center for American Progress rates Maryland as the best state in the nation for women. I couldn't agree more.
‐‐ Martin O'Malley

The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly 'cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.
‐‐ Bill Gates

The Center for Immigration Studies found that illegal immigrants cost the United States taxpayer about $10.4 billion a year. A large part of that expense stems from the babies born each year to illegal immigrants.
‐‐ Nathan Deal

The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

The center of all my enjoyments is the home wherein are my wife and children, and I have no wish to wander out from that home in pursuit of any pleasures that the world presents.
‐‐ Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

The center of gravity for an organization should be as close to what they make as possible. If you make cars, you need people in the factory. If you breed horses, be in the stable. If you make the Internet, live on the Internet, and use all the freedom and power it gives you.
‐‐ Matt Mullenweg

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.
‐‐ Stephen Gardiner

The center will be fully operational in two years' time, but probably in the middle of the year we will have a temporary laboratory of 4,000 square feet.
‐‐ Luc Montagnier

The centerpiece of 'Law and Order' is the crime, and it starts with the writing. There's a beginning, a middle and an end. It allows the audience to watch any given episode and can drop right in and not feel lost. I think the stark, raw structure has a lot to do with its longevity.
‐‐ Danny Pino

The centerpiece of Obamanomics - raising taxes on high earners and investors and lowering them on the middle class - is attacked by free-marketers for penalizing economic success and possibly further stalling economic growth.
‐‐ Nina Easton

The centerpiece of the Bush administration's case for going to war in Iraq was Secretary of State Colin Powell's presentation to the U.N. Security Council on February 5, 2003, six weeks before the invasion.
‐‐ Peter L. Bergen

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has established highly specific criteria for the diagnosis of Lyme disease: an acknowledged tick bite, the appearance of a bull's-eye rash, and, for those who don't live in a region where Lyme is common, laboratory evidence of infection.
‐‐ Michael Specter

The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
‐‐ Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.
‐‐ Timothy Noah

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
‐‐ Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.
‐‐ Bob Woodward

The central dogma of the New Testament is that Jesus died as a scapegoat for the sin of Adam and the sins that all we unborn generations might have been contemplating in the future. Adam's sin is perhaps mitigated by the extenuating circumstance that he didn't exist.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

The central focus of what we are doing at the Fed is to keep inflation from accelerating - and preferably decelerating.
‐‐ Alan Greenspan