Without Quotes

"I always wanted to see if I could sell a movie to the public without doing any marketing because my philosophy was like, hey man, I'm reaching my audience everyday. I'm twittering with them. I'm in direct contact with them on the podcast"

Kevin Smith, Director

"No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings"

Ellsworth Huntington, Educator

"What do you think Jesus would twitter, 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone' or 'Has anyone seen Judas? He was here a minute ago.'"

Chris Cornell, Musician

"I couldn't have come close without my teammates' help because the Knicks didn't want me to make 100"

Wilt Chamberlain, Athlete

"We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness"

Thucydides, Historian

"I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed"

Sargent Shriver, Politician

"A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value"

Roy H. Williams, Businessman

"If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best"

Rob Morrow, Actor

"I find it exhausting to administer a magazine without an office or paid staff"

John Barton, Poet

"Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's shadow - no, not just shadow, but fullness. You've got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that's real"

Amy Grant, Musician

"When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly"

Michael Arad, Architect

"An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy"

Mao Zedong, Leader

"It's absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we've got rockets, we've got saran wrap - fix it!"

Lewis Black, Comedian

"A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them"

Frank Howard Clark, Writer

"Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt"

Sarah Zettel, Author

"In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss"

Salman Rushdie, Novelist

"Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around"

Larry Norman, Musician

"Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large"

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Politician

"No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men"

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Politician

"Although our war on drugs must be fortified with the best laws, enforcement efforts and resources, we would not be successful without your individual commitment to this cause"

Mel Carnahan, Politician

"Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence"

James Hogg, Poet

"Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer"

Henry Lawson, Writer

"It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"It's a beautiful tale, and today is a beautiful day without any bugs"

Hugo Pratt, Cartoonist

"I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny"

Daniel Johns, Musician

"But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out"

Eduard Shevardnadze, Politician

"I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing"

Richard Thompson, Musician

"Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it"

Florence King, Writer

"All of the devices work out of the box without any subscription fee"

David Rose, Musician

"As someone who has seen war first hand, and as a father of three young adults, it was my hope that we could have resolved this conflict and disarmed Saddam Hussein without war. However, this was not the case"

Allen Boyd, Politician

"There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart"

Keith Miller, Author

"And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless"

Gary Numan, Musician

"I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war"

Daniel Akaka, Politician

"Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy"

Paracelsus, Scientist

"After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate"

Nguyen Cao Ky, Politician

"Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious"

Claude Chabrol, Director

"I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing"

Joan Didion, Author

"It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that it spreads without bombast or parade"

Henry Lawson, Writer

"I can do a gig without an instrument"

Gavin DeGraw, Musician

"Italy is a divided country without a center"

Christian Lacroix, Designer

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