Without Quotes

"The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture"

Suzanne Fields

"The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world"

James F. Cooper, Novelist

"America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching"

Nick Clooney, Politician

"The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb; But God's time is our harvest time, And that is sure to come"

Lewis J. Bates

"It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings"

Wim Wenders, Director

"For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them"

Tom Glazer, Musician

"Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement"

Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Philosopher

"We're all with Friends until Friends dies. If one of us goes, we all go. One of us wouldn't leave. It wouldn't be the show it is without each of us"

Jennifer Aniston, Actress

"In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications"

Alexander Alekhine, Celebrity

"No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations"

Marge Piercy, Writer

"Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule"

Georg Simmel, Sociologist

"Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous"

Maimonides, Philosopher

"None of the things I have done would have been accomplished without a true team effort"

Nick Lampson, Politician

"Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion"

John Berger, Artist

"One works without thinking how to work"

Jasper Johns, Artist

"We are busy planning the launch of the channel. I am busy planning all kinds of events that go on the channel without me. I have started producing a sound for the channel"

Howard Stern, Entertainer

"Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant"

Leigh Hunt, Poet

"Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about"

John Desmond Bernal, Scientist

"I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success"

Rick Renzi, Politician

"The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference"

Al Capp, Cartoonist

"I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat"

Allen Klein, Businessman

"Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer"

Jose Saramago, Writer

"Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end"

H. P. Lovecraft, Novelist

"Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos"

David Lee Roth, Musician

"The longer we go without strong leadership from the Administration and until we see significant progress in the day-to-day lives of the Iraqi people, the more difficult it will become to sustain the support of the American people and Congress for the current course"

Dennis Cardoza, Politician

"Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?"

Charles de Lint, Writer

"To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success"

Anna Pavlova, Dancer

"In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming"

Alanis Morissette, Musician

"Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining"

Grace Jones, Model

"As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer"

Gary Player, Athlete

"It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions"

Ben Stein, Actor

"It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

"I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men"

Maria Mitchell, Scientist

"If I walk outside without lipstick, I feel naked"

Sofia Vergara, Model

"In the commercial real estate business, brokers spearhead major accounts. But they wouldn't have customers without the people who oversee construction"

Roger Staubach, Athlete

"I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's"

Kate Hudson, Actress

"One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns"

Len G. Murray, Lawyer

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