Quotes of Platform - somelinesforyou

“ In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ It's an honor to be considered with the great players, but you have to consider the fact that I've had a lot of help. It's fun. ”

- Dan Marino

“ Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! ”

- Tom Lehrer

“ Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen. ”

- Paul Graham

“ I'm as thick as a plank. ”

- Princess Diana

“ Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune. ”

- Alexander Woollcott

“ You could effectively conclude my service here at this podium would come to an abrupt end. ”

- Mike McCurry

“ When it's foggy in the pulpit it's cloudy in the pew. ”

- Cavett Robert

“ We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. ”

- Werner Heisenberg

“ Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands. ”

- Mark Twain

“ And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew. ”

- Billy Graham

“ It was a solid performance. It's always a test playing against a Spanish player on clay, and you could see the difference from yesterday (against Greg Rusedski). ”

- Roger Federer

“ If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do. ”

- Bill Pollard

“ The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it. ”

- Will Rogers

“ The reason you see open source there at all is because we came in and said there should be a platform that's identical with millions and millions of machines. ”

- Bill Gates

“ I confess that the magistrate upon his bench is that to the law which a gunner upon his platform is to his cannon. ”

- James Harrington

“ I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something. ”

- Bette Midler

“ A large-boned unexceptional young woman. Yet as soon as she disrobed and took her place on the platform, she became not only a bare body but a splendid living design. She became a nude. ”

- Maureen Mullarkey

“ I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it. ”

- Dan Quayle

“ Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things changes. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress. ”

- Wendell Phillips

“ Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment. ”

- Robert Green Ingersoll

“ He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that, though it is not true, it has been found necessary to invent it. ”

- Hector Hugh Munro

“ Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ I assume that cycle can't go on forever. Furthermore, I wonder if Disney might use this as a way to get out of the deal to run the show. After all, they might be able to argue to a judge that they were mislead into the purchase... assuming they were inheriting an innocuous religious show, but instead getting a political soapbox that makes them look bad and devalues the property. ”

- Pat Robertson

“ As an American who cares about our culture, I want to restrict a mass murderer's access to the public podium,... I do not want anyone to be able to purchase access to the podium of America with the blood of 168 innocent victims. ”

- John Ashcroft

“ I never expected to get a podium at our first race back. I hadn't seen the bike before practice on Thursday, and it has taken all weekend to get back in the groove. But thanks to Adolf and the team for helping Phil and I get back into the championship, and we're now looking forward to Assen. ”

- Tom Hanks
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