All Quotes

The Discovery was the most intricate, complex machine man has ever built. It's a testament to our time.
‐‐ John Glenn

The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again.
‐‐ Ray Stannard Baker

The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to have to be dealt with.
‐‐ Terence McKenna

The discussion about energy options tends to be an intensely emotional, polarised, mistrustful, and destructive one. Every option is strongly opposed: the public seem to be anti-wind, anti-coal, anti-waste-to-energy, anti-tidal-barrages, anti-carbon-tax, and anti-nuclear.
‐‐ David J. C. MacKay

The discussion in Washington has changed dramatically. I mean, it's no longer a question of should we address entitlements - it's no longer a question of do we need to reduce spending in the future.
‐‐ Mark Zandi

The discussion of derivatives in the political world has become a zero sum game.
‐‐ Jim Himes

The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.
‐‐ Stanley Crouch

The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.
‐‐ Katharine Whitehorn

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.
‐‐ Franz Boas

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
‐‐ Agnes Repplier

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
‐‐ George Santayana

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.
‐‐ Thomas Hobbes

The disenfranchised should be going to art school - not the franchised.
‐‐ Gary Hume

The disgust and latent hostility I felt toward gays were subcategories of hatred, plain and simple.
‐‐ Cory Booker

The dish that changed my life was tom yum kum. You start with a pot of water, add lemongrass, lime leaves, lime juice, coriander, mushrooms, and shrimp; ten minutes later, you have the most incredible, intense soup.
‐‐ Jean-Georges Vongerichten

The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. I'm on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture.
‐‐ Thomas Kinkade

The Disney animators' rules on adult females: mothers are perfect but imperiled; stepmothers are wicked and occasionally homicidal; godmothers are sweet things with magical powers.
‐‐ Richard Corliss

The Disney Channel puts out movies, like, every couple of months.
‐‐ Sabrina Bryan

The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.
‐‐ Bryan Q. Miller

The dispersal of juniper seeds is effected by the plum and cherry plan of hiring birds at the cost of their board, and thus obtaining the use of a pair of extra good wings.
‐‐ John Muir

The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.
‐‐ Alan Rosenberg

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
‐‐ James F. Cooper

The disquieting news of Danny Villanueva's death brought back memories of our time together at KNBC in the early 1970s.
‐‐ Tom Brokaw

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
‐‐ John Maynard Keynes

The dissemination of advanced implantable technology will likely be just as ruthlessly democratic as the ailments it is destined to treat. Meaning that, someday soon, we may have a new class of very smart, very fast people - yesterday's disabled and elderly.
‐‐ Daniel H. Wilson

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
‐‐ Archibald MacLeish

The dissolution of the Oslo Accords would serve as the official act validating what we already know - that this failed framework is totally irrelevant in 2013.
‐‐ Danny Danon

The dissolution of the Party - we will not let such a tremendous, big, and glorious party be so easily crashed: this would then be the moment, when we would begin to fight on all fronts.
‐‐ Otto Bauer

The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.
‐‐ Fritz Sauckel

The distance, being far away from your home, from your family, that's not easy. There are times when you say, 'Wow, what a fight, what a battle.'
‐‐ Rodrigo Santoro

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
‐‐ Bruce Feirstein

The distance between me and my readers is the Internet. I can communicate with them and respond to every email I get or every mention on Twitter.
‐‐ Bob Mayer

The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don't improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant.
‐‐ Indra Nooyi

The distance between the people who made the games and the people playing them wasn't that big. It was the spirit of independence. The programmers were a lot like you.
‐‐ Jeff Minter

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.
‐‐ Jan Chipchase

The distinction between a gallery and a museum is enormous. The gallery is about looking at a thing of beauty; the purpose of the activity is an aesthetic response. The museum is actually about the object that lets you get into somebody else's life.
‐‐ Neil MacGregor

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
‐‐ Niccolo Machiavelli

The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James won, and it split literature into two streams. But it's a totally false dichotomy.
‐‐ George R. R. Martin

The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs and fake news broadcasts being aired by the government, the States feel like they are entering the Dark Ages.
‐‐ Dana Schutz

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.
‐‐ Ann Brashares

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
‐‐ Patrick Henry

The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.
‐‐ Maurice Sendak

The distinctions of what makes a book one genre or another can sometimes be a bit muddy, but generally it's a matter of projecting who the audience will be, which is a judgment that's based on the subject matter. 'Mainstream' is the cleanest label for a book that draws readers of both sexes and from a wide age-range.
‐‐ Therese Fowler

The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it?' Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.
‐‐ Rachel Cusk

The distinguishing characteristic of the techno-thriller is technical detail.
‐‐ Edward M. Lerner

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
‐‐ John Ruskin

The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady's-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell. On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
‐‐ John Burroughs

The distributor used to get 10, 12, 14 percent in most cases, but the App Store or Steam - they're taking 30 points. So clearly, they're viewing what they bring to the table in the digital environment to be more valuable than distribution.
‐‐ Mitch Lasky