All Quotes

Without sounding overly pompous about it, I don't really trust certainty in anything, actually. Especially as I get older. Except love. I'm certain of love, I guess.
‐‐ Martin Freeman

Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how you tend to fall in love.
‐‐ Jess Walter

Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what the readers expect.
‐‐ Jonathan Kellerman

Without sounding pretentious, it's nice to always be surrounded by creative people who inspire me and keep my levels of creativity charged.
‐‐ Jaime Winstone

Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.
‐‐ Terence McKenna

Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book.
‐‐ Jon Ronson

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
‐‐ Lao Tzu

Without stones there is no arch.
‐‐ Marco Polo

Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.
‐‐ Scott Hamilton

Without strong Arab backing, it will be hard, if not impossible, for a Palestinian leader to reach peace with Israel.
‐‐ Tzipi Livni

Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
‐‐ George Gurdjieff

Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead.
‐‐ Emanuel Swedenborg

Without sulfites, wine may smell and taste funky or re-ferment in the bottle. Many distributors and shop owners are consequently reluctant to stock wines made without sulfites.
‐‐ Roger Morris

Without tact you can learn nothing.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.
‐‐ John Warnock

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
‐‐ Marlene Dietrich

Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs.
‐‐ John Yoo

Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours.
‐‐ Mary Douglas

Without the ability of issue groups to tell the truth, who knows what the public will believe.
‐‐ Paul Weyrich

Without the ability to criticize unjust laws in powerful symbolic ways, we can't change them. And the point of a democracy is that people should be able to convince other people to change a law.
‐‐ Marvin Ammori

Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without substance, form without relevant content, or content without meaningful form.
‐‐ Paul Rand

Without the AJGA, it would be very difficult for the college coaches to find us. Every junior golfer around the country knows about the AJGA and knows that's the way to get to college. And the way to get beyond college.
‐‐ Jordan Spieth

Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.
‐‐ Zadie Smith

Without the ball, you can't win.
‐‐ Johan Cruyff

Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.
‐‐ Gavyn Davies

Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

Without 'The Brady Bunch,' my guess is I would have become an engineer working on new plastics or something.
‐‐ Mike Lookinland

Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this Nation, along with our allies around the world, would not stand so boldly, shine so brightly and live so freely.
‐‐ Lane Evans

Without the care I received at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, I wouldn't look the way I do now; my back would be hunched over.
‐‐ Princess Eugenie of York

Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.
‐‐ Slavoj Zizek

Without the compassionate understanding of the fear and trepidation that lie behind courageous speech, we are bound only to our arrogance.
‐‐ David Whyte

Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.
‐‐ Michael Scheuer

Without the discipline of having a wife to come home to, you end up just working all the time.
‐‐ Anthony Goldbloom

Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.
‐‐ Magnus Carlsen

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
‐‐ J. Paul Getty

Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
‐‐ John Burroughs

Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.
‐‐ Billy Hughes

Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.
‐‐ Jose Saramago

Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.
‐‐ Quincy Jones

Without the funding Amtrak needs to keep operating, we will soon see people that rely on Amtrak to get them to work each day, waiting for a train that isn't coming.
‐‐ Corrine Brown

Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy.
‐‐ John Spratt

Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.
‐‐ Liang Chow

Without the materials needed to manufacture new technologies, our future innovators will not have the resources necessary to tackle the biggest challenges we face in today's society. I strongly believe in being a positive and creative force in the protection and enhancement of the local and global environment.
‐‐ Paul E. Jacobs

Without the media, the American people won't have the type of information they need to hold their leaders to account. The relationship between government and media has always been strained, and I think most of the time that's a healthy strain.
‐‐ Dan Bartlett

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
‐‐ Milan Kundera

Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
‐‐ John Burroughs

Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.
‐‐ Peter Benchley

Without the piano, my life would be a disaster - nobody would hold me in any regard. It's the thing that saved me.
‐‐ Jools Holland

Without the political parties and the volunteering work of their members day in, day out, we would have a very different sort of politics and society.
‐‐ David Blunkett