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Tus Maith Leath na Oibre. Gaelic saying Translates as 'A good start is half the work'
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On her waxwork model at Madam Tussaud's: Madam Tussaud's are very angry. Not only have I got new hairstyles, I've also got new tattoos.
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Cum finis est licitus, etiam media sunt licita (The end justifies the means)
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I am what is called a professor emeritus - from the Latin e, 'out', and meritus, 'so he ought to be'.
View quotes by Stephen Butler Leacock

That man is the measure of all things. (In Plato Theatetus)
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It did not last: the Devil howling 'Ho!
Let Einstein be!' restored the status quo.
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For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
View quotes by Erma Bombeck

I hear the tusks are looser in Alabama.
View quotes by W C Fields

Status quo, you know, that is Latin for 'the mess we're in.'
View quotes by Ronald Reagan

There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.
View quotes by Norman Mailer

A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.
View quotes by Mary McCarthy

I think I've matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it's not about the celebrity status that you receive because you're doing the next hot movie. It's about doing good work.
View quotes by Emilio Estevez

status quo sucks.
View quotes by George Carlin

The solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of the problem. [Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus]
View quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.
View quotes by Patrick Blackett

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

View quotes by Nelson Algren

Juventus fans were lobbing half bricks at us [on Heysel]
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People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.
View quotes by Max Eastman

Anybody who is a QPR fan is welcome at Loftus Road. I'd be happy for him to turn up for a kickabout, just so long as he brings that Kate Moss with him - she's absolutely lovely.
View quotes by Ian Holloway

Stone lotus cups, with petals dipped in sand
View quotes by Jean Ingelow

If I had my way the social status of professional golfers would be one notch below that of Nazi war criminal.
View quotes by Andy Lyons

There is life outside Madame Tussauds [on advice to tourists]
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Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals in the state of nature
View quotes by Richard Dawkins

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo
View quotes by Robert Byrne

It's a great myth that the British public want our soldiers to be sent into harm's way on a bogus prospectus for ignoble reasons. There is nothing patriotic about that. It is the opposite of patriotism.
View quotes by George Galloway

The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it. [that's true, the point being?]
View quotes by Will Foley

Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters. [on the science, or art, of writing a book]
View quotes by Elizabeth George

As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.
View quotes by Susan George

The world is being drowned in the detritus of a greedy society
View quotes by Michael Winner

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth
View quotes by Yukio Mishima

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