Enormous Quotes - Page 31

• Singaporeans, if I can chose an analogy, we are the hard disk of a computer, the foreign talent are the megabytes you add to your storage capacity. So your computer never hangs because you got enormous storage capacity.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, Add, Analogies

  The Straits Times, April 22, 2007.

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• I'm as poor as a church mouse, that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Funny, Money, Wife

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• Very few people realize the enormous bulk of contemporary mathematics. Probably it would be easier to learn all the languanges of the world than to master all mathematics at present known.

  W. W. Sawyer

  Math, People, Would Be

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• The configuration of the ocean-floor is of great interest to seismologists studying the movements of the Earth's crust. Oceanographers are also able to explain certain peculiarities of ocean currents by the contour of the ocean-bed. But enormous areas are still unexplored.

  Paul J. H. Schoemaker

  Ocean, Bed, Movement

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• Deep beneath the surface of the Sun, enormous forces were gathering. At any moment, the energies of a million hydrogen bombs might burst forth in the awesome explosion.... Climbing at millions of miles per hour, an invisible fireball many times the size of Earth would leap from the Sun and head out across space.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Space, Climbing, Hydrogen Bomb

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• I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed hats women used to wear at some period during the old days: hats like enormous halos, festooned with fruit and flowers, and the feathers of exotic birds; hats like an idea of paradise, floating just above the head, a thought solidified.

  Margaret Atwood

  Flower, Thinking, Ideas

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge.

  John Corigliano

  Thinking, Challenges, Technique

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• The word 'cancer' carries with it enormous fear, fear for the future, fear for family.

  Wayne Swan

  Cancer, Carrie

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Mother, Awards, Perception

  Interview with Jose Arroyo, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2002.

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• I would like to step out of my heart
  and go walking beneath the enormous sky.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Heart, Sky, Steps

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “Lament”

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• It is difficult to generalize about Islam. To begin with, the word itself is commonly used with two related but distinct meanings, as the equivalents both of Christianity, and Christendom. In the one sense, it denotes a religion, as system of beliefs and worship; in the other, the civilization that grew up and flourished under the aegis of that religion. The word Islam thus denotes more than fourteen centuries of history, a billion and a third people, and a religious and cultural tradition of enormous diversity.

  Bernard Lewis

  Religious, Civilization, Two

  Bernard Lewis (2003). “The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror”, p.3, Modern Library

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• The income tax is the biggest single intrusion suffered by the American people. It forces every worker to be a bookkeeper, to open his records to the government, to explain his expenses, to fear conviction for a harmless accounting error. Compliance wastes billions of dollars. It penalizes savings and creates an enormous drag on the U.S. economy. It is incompatible with a free society, and we aren’t libertarians if we tolerate it.

  Harry Browne

  Errors, Government, People

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• I feel that, you know, the enormous luck I've had in being able to make a living, and to never have had to have written one word that I didn't want to write, to be able to have satisfied that dictum I set for myself, which was not to work for pay, but to be paid for my work - just to be able to satisfy those standards that I set for myself has been an enormous privilege.

  Leonard Cohen

  Writing, Luck, Want

  BBC Radio 1FM Interveiw, 1994.

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• In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

  Albert Camus

  Culture, World, Persuasion

  Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

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• The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.

  Steven Weinberg

  Beauty, Art, Groups

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• Whatever a person's ultimate concern may be, it will have an enormous influence on everything else the person does or believes.

  Ronald H. Nash

  Believe, Doe, May

  Ronald H. Nash (2010). “Life's Ultimate Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• Let's pursue a walk with God so close that the spotlights of this world-be they for us or against us-are eclipsed by His enormous shadow cast on our path.

  Beth Moore

  Shadow, World, Spotlight

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• Because having your story told as a woman, as a person of color, as a lesbian, as a trans person, or as any member of any disenfranchised community, is sadly often still a radical idea. There is so much power in storytelling, and there is enormous power in inclusive storytelling, in inclusive representations.

  Kerry Washington

  Color, Ideas, Community

  Kerry Washington's Acceptance Speech at the GLAAD Media Awards, www.vulture.com. March 22, 2015.

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• One of the most serious [challenges] is increased military spending and the cost of maintaining and developing nuclear arsenals. Enormous resources are being consumed for these purposes, when they could be spent on the development of peoples, especially those who are poorest. For this reason I firmly hope that, during the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference to be held this May in New York, concrete decisions will be made towards progressive disarmament, with a view to freeing our planet from nuclear arms

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Religious, New York, Military

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• No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.

  Leland Ryken

  People, Groups, Prejudice

  Leland Ryken (2010). “Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• Focus on your dream and never quit. It is always too soon to quit. If you quit, you can't succeed. By achieving your dream you will be an inspiration to others. You will set the example and make an enormous impact on the world.

  Rudy Ruettiger

  Dream, Inspiration, Impact

  Rudy Ruettiger (1999). “Rudy's Insights for Winning in Life”, Rudy International Publications, Limited

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• How does life become totally painful By total retreat. Total noninspection becomes total pain.But existence is basically composed of a very few truths onto which have hung a great many artificialities and which man has adorned with enormous numbers of lies. And man is prisoner of his own shadows. Now one of the things you can do with man is to get him to look up and find out that he can look through the shadows and look at the shadows and find out what they are.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Pain, Lying, Men

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• As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that it is possible to sit in a crowded railway carriage laboriously spelling out quite long words in full, and using an enormous amount of punctuation, without anyone being aware of how outrageously subversive I am being.

  Lynne Truss

  Long, Messages, Texting

  "The joy of text" by Will Self, Lynne Truss, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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• Cricket is just something that I am good at, just like various people are good at various things. What's lucky is that cricket gets enormous publicity.

  Rahul Dravid

  People, Lucky, Publicity

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• The general disinclination of Spain to accept slaves from Islamicized regions of Africa during the formative years of Hispano-American society had enormous consequences for the development of music in the New World.

  Ned Sublette

  Years, Spain, Development

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