Roget Quotes

#1. Ear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget

Edgar Allan Poe

#2. Roget looked so profoundly timid. What is it like, working for a well-dressed lunatic who pays you triple what anyone else would pay to forget your better judgment?

Anne Rice

#3. I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

#4. Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve .

Jacques Ellul

#5. You often feel like you are on a high wire with no net productions because you have to rely on spontaneity and come up with ideas on the spur of the moment - and then what happens is that there is electricity to it that gets caught.

Nicolas Cage

#6. The world needs all types of minds.

Temple Grandin

#7. English, as Charlton Laird has noted, is the only language that has, or needs, books of synonyms like Roget's Thesaurus. "Most speakers of other languages are not aware that such books exist" [The Miracle of Language, page 54].

Bill Bryson

#8. London has what it takes to host the greatest sporting show on earth [on the 2012 Olympic bid

Bradley Wiggins

#9. Teach me to listen, O God, to those nearest me, my family, my friends, my co-workers. Help me to be aware that no matter what words I hear, the message is, "Accept the person I am. Listen to me.

Philippa Alby

#10. Just repeating a statement often and with great vehemence does not make it a fact, and no amount of repetition can make a rational person believe it.

Brian Herbert

#11. I figure that my staff will be less reluctant to work overtime if I work longer hours than they do.

David Ogilvy

#12. The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

George Jean Nathan

#13. The success of our economy shouldn't determine the success of our schools.

Bob Riley

#14. China's official State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television issued a warning and denunciation of time travel in 2011, concerned that such stories interfere with history - "casually

James Gleick

#15. SOMEONE HAS TO BE THE BEST IN THE WORLD. WHY NOT YOU?

Ronda Rousey

#16. Just as we rely on Israel as a continual source of inspiration and renewal, Israel relies on us.

Lynn Schusterman

#17. Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.

Charles Caleb Colton

#18. For the first time in my whole damn life I can look into a girls eyes and find her looking right back at me. Not passed me. Not around me. Into me.

Marilyn Grey

#19. Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there's nothing to arrest my sight. On the bed I have Roget's Thesaurus, a dictionary, a Bible, and a deck of playing cards.

Toni Morrison

#20. Time took on a peculiarly viscous quality.

Julie Anne Long