Without Quotes

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

It's one of my strongest dance pieces - having just done Play Without Words which was veering away from a lot of dance - I thought it would be nice to go back to something with almost the most dance I'd done.

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.

I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether.

Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common.

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.

Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other.

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.

In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio.

A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.

All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.

The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.

I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.

I urge the Bush Administration to rethink its priorities. We can't talk about community values without being prepared to invest in those very same communities.

Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.

It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

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

I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each apple falling. The Fed has had the largest increase in the monetary base in the history of the U.S., from colonial times to the present, times ten.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.