(1042 quotes found)
“Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.”
Claude Levi-Strauss
“I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another reincarnation might possibly be a horsefly or a bird of paradise or a deer. So a man of such faith, looking at animals, might be looking at old friends or ancestors.”
William Orville Douglas
“Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism”
Mary McCarthy
“Imitation is the sincerest form of television.”
Fred Allen
“No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.”
An Wang
“Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous”
George Eliot
“Rod Stewart, Eiton John and I were going to form a band called Hair, Nose and Teeth after the three of us. But it hasn't happened because none of us can agree on the order of the words!”
Freddie Mercury
“For a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability.”
Camilo Jose Cela
“Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.”
William Blackstone
“Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of ou”
Charles Baudelaire
