Valerie Zenatti Famous Quotes & Sayings

Companionate Conservatism - Making the streets safer before people are kicked out onto them. — Dennis Miller

Persons extremely reserved are like old enamelled watches, which had painted covers, that hindered your seeing what o'clock it was. — Robert Walpole

It hasn't snowed like this for years. Real, proper snow. Dickensian snow, — Sophie Kinsella

I'd like to turn the silence right up, but how do you do that? — Valerie Zenatti

The real hero of programming is the one who writes negative code, — Douglas McIlroy

I knew my boyfriend was going to ask me to marry him. And I was sure the ring was going to be exceptional, and I bought him a Rolex Explorer. And I engraved 'yes' on it. And when he proposed, I gave him the watch. — Rena Sofer

He put his finger guns away. He should not be allowed to carry weapons of mass humiliation. — T.J. Klune

They know the autumn's the peak season for harvesting, and that the crop is eighteen-year-olds. — Valerie Zenatti

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge. — John Locke

I haven't thought about her for nearly twenty minutes. With a bit of practice, I might make it to thirty. — Valerie Zenatti

Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets out al-Ghazali's Ash?arite theology with unusual clarity and provides important background for such well-known works as his autobiographical Deliverance from Error and his attack on Avicenna in The Incoherence of the Philosophers. This first English-language translation, with notes that bring out the argumentation and background of the work, is thus very much to be welcomed. — Peter Adamson