Aquariums famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
-- Adrienne Rich -
DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver. As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet Swims round and round his tank to find an outlet, Pressing his nose against the glass that holds him, Nor ever sees the prison that enfolds him; So the poor debtor, seeing naught around him, Yet feels the narrow limits that impound him, Grieves at his debt and studies to evade it, And finds at last he might as well have paid it.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
-- Arnold Bennett -
I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential.
-- Arsene Wenger -
It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.
-- Barney Frank -
But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.
-- Benjamin Tucker -
I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.
-- Brandon Boyd -
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
-- Brian Eno -
There are a lot of differing opinions on that. Some people think you should change out more, but I think changing just 20 percent is less stressful on the aquarium and fish. Once you get used to the regimen, it's pretty easy.
-- Brian K. Vaughan -
Reef aquariums are definitely the pinnacle of the hobby.
-- Brian K. Vaughan -
As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.
-- Bridget Riley -
And it is essential that in fighting terrorism, sacrifices should not be made on democracy.
-- Bulent Ecevit -
Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.
-- Carl Levin -
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood.
-- David Levithan -
The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.
-- David Rockefeller -
This is a great opportunity for gear heads to celebrate the holiday, show off their hot rods and visit the aquarium.
-- Dick Miller -
The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.
-- Donna Tartt -
Every aquarium will eventually leak.
-- Edward A. Murphy, Jr. -
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
-- Edward Hopper -
We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.
-- Gavin Newsom -
It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that.
-- George Michael -
In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite.
-- Hugh Dancy -
Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.
-- Jackie Collins -
I should have gone to college and gone into real estate and got myself an aquarium, that's what I should have done.
-- Jeffrey Dahmer -
I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.
-- John Breaux -
I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
-- John D. Rockefeller -
The oldest continuously operated aquarium in the country features 630 species and more than 8,000 animals. The walruses are especially popular.
-- John Grant -
Many exhibits from this aquarium use Hawaii's abundant natural daylight. This allows Waikiki to display only live coral, which creates beautiful exhibits. It's also a world leader in the propagation of live coral. The aquarium features some unusual and rarely seen species, including the chambered nautilus and the endangered Hawaiian monk seal.
-- John Grant -
The Graveyard of the Atlantic exhibit reflects the aquarium's proximity to the state's Outer Banks, where thousands of ships have run aground over the centuries. Divers in the exhibit carry on a conversation with visitors outside the tank.
-- John Grant -
The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.
-- John McKinley -
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell in a newly found peace after he decided not to eat animals. Kafka recognized that fish as a member of his invisible family- not as his equal, of course, but as another being that was his concern.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
There was a time when I thought a great deal about the axolotls. I went to see them at the aquarium at the Jardin des Plantes and stayed for hours watching them, observing their immobility; their faint movements. Now I am an axolotl.
-- Julio Cortazar -
All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.
-- Katharine Fullerton Gerould -
The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.
-- Lorna Luft -
People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.
-- Marcy Kaptur -
It's wonderful to work for a company that gives so much back to its communities, especially to our children. Donations are only one way we support our communities. Our team members also volunteer their time and energies to a number of different local groups, including this aquarium. We form partnerships with these organizations because we feel we can accomplish more together than if we were each working on our own.
-- Patricia Brooks -
I believe it is incumbent upon Congress to act aggressively to ameliorate fear and help our country take the essential steps that will make our communities and lives safer.
-- Paul Gillmor -
We've drifted away from being fishers of men to being keepers of the aquarium.
-- Paul Harvey -
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
-- Pierre de Coubertin -
The essential ingredient of politics is timing.
-- Pierre Trudeau -
One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance.
-- Ralph Merkle -
Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.
-- Robert Dale Owen -
There is something about a home aquarium which sets my teeth on edge the moment I see it. Why anyone would want to live with a small container of stagnant water populated by a half-dead guppy is beyond me.
-- S. J. Perelman -
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
-- Sam Houston -
So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.
-- Samuel Eliot Morison -
The Federal Building's large Ceremonial Courtroom, reserved for show trials, is veneered in executive teak. Bench, counsel tables, jury boxes, entrances, and exits -- all are as formally arranged as an Elizabethan stage. Only the drama is shapeless, at least to those of us who have never seen a trial before. We see only random movements, sequences, comings and goings, no form or agenda apparent. To us the action is less like watching a play than watching an aquarium.
-- Shana Alexander -
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
-- Soren Kierkegaard -
I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party system is essential to our democracy.
-- Stockwell Day -
It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.
-- Theodore Roosevelt -
A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.
-- Yitzhak Rabin -
What I love about IMAX is that, when you're in an IMAX theater, in a museum, science center or aquarium, it's eight stories tall and it's immersive, and you can see it in 3D, you really feel like you're being transported to that place.
-- Greg MacGillivray -
It therefore become essential for the future of Judaism itself that its advancement should be correlated with a similar effort to advance the cause of religion generally.
-- Louis Finkelstein -
Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.
-- Unknown -
When you're watching an action movie, you experience an action movie more outside of the aquarium, you're out of the aquarium looking in at all the swimming fish that are in there. Whereas horror films and thrillers are designed to put the audience into that box, into that aquarium.
-- James Wan -
Community care is a fundamental, an essential, an enduring part of our aged care system.
-- Julie Bishop
