Source Quotes

A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.

I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

I believe that the best cameraman is one who recognizes the source, the story, as the basis of his work.

You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in.

Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth.

The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are.

I was proud to call Dr Rupert a friend. He was always a wonderful source of support and kindness.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.

The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are.

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?

I've been reading this little book. It's called the Russian constitution. And it says that the only source of power in Russia is the people. So I don't want to hear those who say we're appealing to the authorities. Who's the power here?

I think it's the broadest source of dissatisfaction amongst Republicans, out-of-control spending.

The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.

Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.

Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.

The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.

The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

Then again, my case was all about the misappropriation of source code because I wanted to become the best hacker in the world and I enjoyed beating the security mechanisms.

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.