The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years.

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Friedrich von Schiller

I will open my mouth in a parable I will utter dark sayings of old.Things that we have heard and known,that our fathers told us.We will not hide them from their children,but tell it to the coming generations.

Bible, Psalm 78:14

I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.

Alanis Morissette

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.

Edward Cocker

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what's happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone else - we are growing into a nation that has no time, desire or capacity for truth. All we can handle is 140 characters of knowledge.

Kurt Sutter

If you look closely you'll find all my lovers inscribed on my skin.

Jill Ciment

I was a queen, and you took away my crown a wife, and you killed my husband a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

Marie Antoinette

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

William Scranton

Anger is a good motivator.

James Dyson

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

Alan Watts

I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person.

Janeane Garofalo