Hippodamus Of Miletus Quotes

#1. A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.

Ovid

#2. You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC.

Bill O'Reilly

#3. I still have a lot of military contacts, and friends and readers who've served or are serving, and they react really strongly to G.I. Joe. I've lost count of the number who've said, 'Oh, I just loved it as a kid. I had all the figures; it really made me think.'

Karen Traviss

#4. When you're writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can't swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay within those parameters, you have lots of freedom because you're writing for the next day.

Chuck Klosterman

#5. The interests of Oregon for today and in the future must be protected from the grasping wastrels of the land. We must respect another truism - that unlimited and unregulated growth, leads inexorably to a lowered quality of life.

Tom McCall

#6. Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.

Aristotle.

#7. I did a lot of background and research on 'End Of Watch,' and I definitely used certain skills that I learned.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#8. Success is nice, but I'm happy no matter what,

Sofia Johansson

#9. I don't shy from writing about incredibly unpleasant, distressing things. And I get a kick out of it I confess. I like doing that.

Peter Straub

#10. But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.

Rachel Hunter

#11. Trust your nose, but make sure it's pointing in the right direction.

Alexander McCall Smith