Contributory Quotes

#1. Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.

David Boies

#2. All of everything came into existence simply because it wanted to be. The big bang wasn't so much a big bang as a hasty dash toward an opportunity to trade nothingness for somethingness. The main contributory factor to the entire universe was a momentary effect in need of a cause.

Jasper Fforde

#3. Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.

John Donne

#4. I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said. It made me uneasy, as though the whole evening had been a trick of some sort to extract a contributory emotion from me.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major contributory factor to great paintings.

David Luiz

#6. I worked in an insurance office for six years, and it was there that I just woke up one day and realised there was something massively lacking in my life, and a non-contributory pension and a subsidised canteen could not fill it.

Jamie Sives

#7. The hated system of land tenure, so contributory to general unrest in Asia, has been abolished. Every farmer is now accorded the right and dignity of ownership of the land he long has tilled.

Douglas MacArthur

#8. Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

Albert J. Nock

#9. If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats.

John Dingell

#10. Television and radio violence was considered by most experts of minimal importance as a contributory cause of youthful killing ... there were always enough experts to assure the public that crime and violence had nothing to do with crime and violence.

Marya Mannes

#11. You had to have a unanimous jury verdict, and one percent of contributory negligence barred all recovery. It was so satisfying to realize I could do it. And I'll tell you what motivated me: competitiveness. I was betting on me. That's what a contingent-fee lawyer does.

Joe Jamail

#12. I think Koenigsegg is Swedish for: Oh no, my head has just exploded!

Jeremy Clarkson

#13. A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right.

Holly Lisle

#14. You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it.

Tom Tancredo

#15. As illusory attachment (moha) spread, one sunk deeper and deeper into the pit.

Dada Bhagwan

#16. One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.

Bill Bruford

#17. I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#18. He realized he needed strength, sustenance that couldn't come from bread alone. He desperately needed God.

J.E.B. Spredemann

#19. Something wrong with your child? Feed them and put them to bed. Something wrong with your man? Feed him and take him to bed. Lady Jeeha Wolf Dawn

Susan Cartwright

#20. I don't know exactly what life has in store for me, but my travels have helped me formulate a better idea of my immediate next move. Europe is where my heart lies, now; here in Paris, at a gallery or museum, or possibly Rome, where Alexander took me last winter.

Pippa Croft

#21. Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

Marcus Tullius Cicero