(966 quotes found)
“The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.”
Ovid
“A poet who has not produced a good poem before he is twenty-five, we may conclude cannot, and never will do so.”
William Wordsworth
“An overcrowded chicken farm produce fewer eggs.”
Chinese Proverbs
“In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality”
Clarence Darrow
“The devil can site scripture for his own purpose! An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek. [Merchant Of Venice]”
William Shakespeare
“The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“With a good script, a good director can produce a masterpiece. With the same script, a mediocre director can produce a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can't possibly make a good film. For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water. The script must be something that has the power to do this”
Akira Kurosawa
“How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.”
William S. Burroughs
“It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.”
Thomas Paine
“Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.”
Charles Fillmore
