Top 20 Roget Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#6. 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
#7. Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.
Charles Caleb Colton
#8. Just as we rely on Israel as a continual source of inspiration and renewal, Israel relies on us.
Lynn Schusterman
#9. SOMEONE HAS TO BE THE BEST IN THE WORLD. WHY NOT YOU?
Ronda Rousey
#10. 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
#11. The success of our economy shouldn't determine the success of our schools.
Bob Riley
#12. The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
George Jean Nathan
#13. I figure that my staff will be less reluctant to work overtime if I work longer hours than they do.
David Ogilvy
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. London has what it takes to host the greatest sporting show on earth [on the 2012 Olympic bid
Bradley Wiggins
#18. 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
#19. Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve .
Jacques Ellul
