Nineteen famous quotes

What has been presented as Christianity during these nineteen centuries is only a beginning, full of mistakes, not full blown Christianity springing from the spirit of Jesus.
-- Albert Schweitzer

#Jesus #Mistake #Nineteen

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.
-- Anne Fadiman

#Book #Views #Nineteen

There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.
-- Bessie Smith

#Men #Fool #Nineteen

... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.
-- Ellen Glasgow

#Character #Nineteen #Necks

Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having a budget makes it even more difficult. Having nineteen days and no budget makes it extremely difficult.
-- Eriq La Salle

#Trying #Matter #Nineteen

I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.
-- Gyorgy Ligeti

#Thinking #Law #Nineteen

Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan... The Ku Klux's gone... It'll never come back.
-- Harper Lee

#Ku Klux Klan #Twenties #Nineteen

There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below.
-- Hudson Stuck

#Air #Feet #Nineteen

Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of doing business there. In some European countries, businesses were even allowed to deduct bribes as an expense.
-- James Surowiecki

#Country #Nineteen #Attention

Success is failing nineteen times and soaring the twentieth.
-- Julie Andrews

#Nineteen #Failing #Soar

Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore.
-- Olga Korbut

#Gymnastics #Six #Nineteen

At home we didnt talk about religion. So gradually the question faded away by itself and disappeared from the agenda. When I was nineteen my father died; my response to his death was atheistic.
-- Sergei Prokofiev

#Father #Home #Nineteen

If you are an eighteen or nineteen-year-old with little education, as is often the case, and you're put in charge of many, many people on the other end of the world, you have absolute power and you're not prepared for it.
-- Yaroslav Trofimov

#Years #People #Nineteen

I went from junior hockey to the World Junior Championships to the combine and the draft, to the Blackhawks camp, and then a full NHL season and then the World Championships. At nineteen, that's exhausting.
-- Patrick Kane

#Hockey #Nhl #Nineteen

I am proud to be able to claim that, from the age of nineteen, I've managed to earna living entirely as a composer.
-- Richard Rodney Bennett

#Age #Nineteen #Proud