Prominent Quotes:

I am convinced that UFOs exist because I've seen one.

- Jimmy Carter

source: 1976 T V interview, 16 Jun.

topic: Flying Saucers, Ufo, Prominent

People are irrelevant. They're as irrelevant as many other prominent leftists are.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: People, Leftists, Prominent

You are the sum total of your dominating or most prominent thoughts.

- Napoleon Hill

source: Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.331, Penguin

topic: Prominent, Dominating

More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of which cannot be accounted for by any 'scientific' explanation. . .I am convinced that these objects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nation on earth.

- Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

topic: Majority, Earth, Ufo, Flying Saucers, Prominent

If I become President, I'll make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public, and the scientists. I am convinced that UFOs exist because I've seen one.

- Jimmy Carter

topic: Country, President, Pieces, Flying Saucers, Sirius

I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Flying, Earth, Given, Flying Saucers, Sirius

Early to bed and early to rise, and you'll meet very few of the best people.

- George Ade

topic: People, Bed, Modern Life, Prominent, Influential People

I create my own reality. And I'm not the only one. My reality is becoming more prominent.

- Valerie June

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Prominent

Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.

- Anthony Trollope

source: Anthony Trollope (2015). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels: The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds…”, p.4601, e-artnow

topic: Horse, Men, Looks, Prominent

Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years. When I contemplate the ardour with which the Anglo-Americans prosecute commercial enterprise, the advantages which befriend them, and the success of their undertakings, I cannot refrain from believing that they will one day become the first maritime power of the globe. They are born to rule the seas, as the Romans were to conquer the world.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

source: Alexis de Tocqueville (1835). “Democracy in America”, p.447

topic: Believe, Destiny, Men, Maritime, Prominent

I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization.

- George Cayley

source: Sir George Cayley (1933). “Aeronautical and miscellaneous note-book (ca. 1799-1826): of Sir George Cayley”

topic: Airplane, Civilization, Progress, Navigation, Prominent

The powerful and prominent soar like dragons, the heroic and valiant fight like tigers: but if you look upon them with cool eyes, they are like ants gathering on rancid meet, like flies swarming on blood. Judgments of right and wrong bristle like porcupine quills: but if you meet them with cool feelings, that is like a forge melting metal, like hot water dissolving snow.

- Zicheng Hong

topic: Powerful, Eye, Fighting, Dissolving, Porcupines

Carolyn Maloney identifies with the possibility of being raped, that's why she hung in there for the Debbie Smith Bill. So it - it's essential that in New York, if we can't get a prominent woman in New York, where can we? I mean there's so many states that have never even had a woman senator. We're still on our first this and our first that.

- Eleanor Smeal

source: Source: www.blogher.com

topic: New York, Mean, Essentials, Prominent

It is not all that common, but there is a phenomenon where autism could get worse at about age two. There are some controversies whether regression is a prominent part of autism, but many people feel that it's very hard to diagnose autism before you can begin really talking in detail with a child.

- Gerald Fischbach

source: "Big Think Panel Discussion on Autism". Interview with Susan Wilczynski, bigthink.com.

topic: Children, Talking, Two, Regression, Prominent

In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place

- Tracy Kidder

topic: Way, Firsts, Landmarks, First Person, Prominent

There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.

- Will Self

source: "There's something to be said for our more low-key intellectuals" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. May 07, 2011.

topic: Flip, Sides, Results, Prominent

Let’s start with the most prominent ecological crisis of our time: global warming. When you look seriously at the numbers, you find that switching from a meat-based to a plant-based diet would do more to curb and reverse global warming than any other initiative.

- T. Colin Campbell

source: T. Colin Campbell, Howard Jacobson (2013). “Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition”, p.167, BenBella Books

topic: Numbers, Meat, Looks, Ecological Crisis, Curb

The founding fathers, in their wisdom, devised a method by which our republic can take one hundred of its most prominent numbskulls and keep them out of the private sector where they might do actual harm.

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: Father, Republic, Might, Prominent

A Jew cannot be a true patriot. He is something different, like a bad insect. He must be kept apart, out of a place where he can do mischief - even by pogroms, if necessary. The Jews are responsible for Bolshevism in Russia, and Germany too. I was far too indulgent with them during my reign, and I bitterly regret the favors I showed the prominent Jewish bankers.

- Wilhelm II

topic: Regret, Russia, Germany, Prominent, Bolshevism

So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade.

- Will Durant

topic: Country, Europe, Roles, International Trade, Prominent

But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike wrote about so beautifully -- got to watch all this brave new individualism and self-expression and sexual freedom deteriorate into the joyless and anomic self-indulgence of the Me Generation. Today's sub-40s have different horrors, prominent among which are anomie and solipsism and a peculiarly American loneliness: the prospect of dying without once having loved something more than yourself.

- David Foster Wallace

topic: Children, Loneliness, Divorce, Solipsism, Prominent

As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Enemy, Bernard Shaw, Enough, Prominent

Add it all up, and some prominent Obama supporters are now saying that it paints a picture of an opposition driven, in part, by a refusal to accept a black President.

- Dan Harris

source: "ABC: Obama Critics 'Driven By Refusal to Accept Black President'; NBC Trumpets Carter's Racism Charges". www.newsbusters.org. September 15, 2009.

topic: Black, President, Add, Prominent, Obama Supporters

Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.

- George Soros

source: George Soros (2007). “Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror”, p.22, PublicAffairs

topic: Views, Play, Roles, Misconception, Prominent

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that day dreams with your eyes wide open are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. A prominent educator tells me that fairy tales are of untold value in developing imagination in the young. I believe it.

- L. Frank Baum

source: L. Frank Baum (2016). “THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ – Complete Collection: 16 Novels in One Premium Edition (Fantasy Classics Series): The most Beloved Children’s Books about the Adventures in the Magical Land of Oz”, p.1598, e-artnow

topic: Dream, Children, Believe, Steam Engines, Engines

A prominent judge was asked what we, as citizens of the countries of the world, could do to reduce crime and disobedience to law and to bring peace and contentment into our lives and into our nations. He thoughtfully replied, ‘I would suggest a return to the old-fashioned practice of family prayer.’

- Thomas S. Monson

source: Thomas S. Monson (1988). “Live the Good Life”, Shadow Mountain

topic: Country, Prayer, Countries Of The World, Family Prayer, Prominent

Perhaps the most extraordinary popular delusion about violence of the past quarter-century is that it is caused by low self-esteem. That theory has been endorsed by dozens of prominent experts, has inspired school programs designed to get kids to feel better about themselves, and in the late 1980s led the California legislature to form a Task Force to Promote Self-Esteem. Yet Baumeister has shown that the theory could not be more spectacularly, hilariously, achingly wrong. Violence is a problem not of too little self-esteem but of too much, particularly when it is unearned.

- Steven Pinker

source: Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”, p.560, Penguin

topic: Self Esteem, School, Kids, Prominent, Task Forces

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.

- Jean-Francois Lyotard

topic: Communication, Reality, Hands, Prominent, Becoming More

I pointed to an article with bold headlines reporting that the police had refused to allow the PAP to hold a rally at Empress Place, and then to the last paragraph where in small type it added the meeting would take place where we were now. I compared this with a prominent report about an SPA rally. This was flagrant bias.

- Lee Kuan Yew

topic: Police, Lasts, Type, Empresses, Singapore

I was photographing the photographer Brassaï. He had very prominent eyes, like a frog's. As I focused my lens, he brought his hand up and pretended to focus his eye. It was a joke, but it added mystery to the picture. There's a sense of action in a very small world. Or with Allen Ginsberg there were people smoking cigarettes and in the smoke there's a sense of motion. It makes much out of very little.

- John Loengard

topic: Eye, Hands Up, People, Ginsberg, Small World

I am not optimistic, but I've never been optimistic about humankind or America. The evidence never looks good in terms of forces for good actually becoming prominent.

- Cornel West

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Optimistic, America, Looks, Prominent

Despite the bigoted nature of Donald Trump`s plan to keep Muslims - all Muslims out of this country and almost universal condemnation of that plan by prominent Republican leaders, new polling out suggests that what Trump wants to do may be perfectly acceptable to rank and file GOP voters.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Country, Leader, May, Polling, Prominent

Two large prominent eyes that rolled about to no purpose (for he was utterly short-sighted) a wide mouth, thick lips and inflated visage, gave him the air of a blind trumpeter. A deep untuneable voice which, instead of modulating, he enforced with unnecsessary pomp, a total neglect of his person, and ignorance of every civil attention, disgusted all who judge by appearance.

- Horace Walpole

source: Horace Walpole (1963). “Horace Walpole: Memoirs and Portraits”

topic: Eye, Ignorance, Two, Prominent

A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be. That is his punishment. Those who want a mask have to wear it.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.184, Oxford University Press on Demand

topic: Successful, Men, Judging, Solicitors, Members Of Parliament

But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past.

- Donna Rice Hughes

topic: Relationship, Past, Race, Long Term Relationship, Hart

Global warming is the most prominent form of mass hysteria raging across the world today.

- Doug Casey

source: Doug Casey (2012). “Totally Incorrect”, p.88, Laissez Faire Books

topic: Hysteria, Today, World, Mass Hysteria, Prominent

My name should not be made prominent. It is my ideas that I want to see realized. The disciples of all the prophets have always inextricably mixed up the ideas of the Master with person, and at last killed the ideas for the person. The disciples of Sri Ramakrishna must guard against doing the same thing. Work for the idea, not the person.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

topic: Names, Ideas, Want, Followership, Prominent

Music and acting are the most prominent. But I don't like to compare them, since they're both very, very important to me.

- Zoe Kravitz

source: Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. May 12, 2015.

topic: Important, Acting, Compare, Prominent

F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period.

- Peter L. Berger

source: Peter L. Berger (1988). “The capitalist revolution: fifty propositions about prosperity, equality, and liberty”

topic: Hayek, Prominent

Among the many things that profoundly impress me about the Dalai Lama, quite high up on the list is his ability to say "I don't know". I've often wished that other people in prominent positions wouldn't feel the compulsion to have an answer for everything and would feel equally free to say "I don't know." It's a sign of wisdom to know that you don't know and a sign of stupidity to think that you know everything. I admire it enormously in him, and wonder why so few people in leading positions reach that stage.

- David Steindl-Rast

topic: Thinking, People, Stupidity, Dalai, Prominent

There's this really amazing quote from Jim Jarmusch about celebrating your theft that I think has become more and more prominent in music: "It's not where you got it from, it's where you take it." To me, that's just an integral part of why I even bother making music. I don't mind that I've created an identity around what I do.

- Alan Palomo

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Thinking, Mind, Identity, Prominent, Really Amazing

I mean, just like every other prominent songwriter or producer, you have the shot. You send in records and if they make it, they make it. If they get heard, they get heard. I'm not sure if you know how that circle of songwriting and producing works, but every time a big artist is working, everybody and their mother is in the studio writing records to try to get on it.

- Bryce Wilson

topic: Mother, Writing, Mean, Prominent

Unlike scandal-monger Ed Klein’s fantastical No. 1 best-selling narrative about the supposed Blood Feud between the Clintons and the Obamas, Halper’s study is juicy and gossipy, yet scrupulously researched, drawing on numerous on-the-record conversations (as well as many not-for-attribution interviews) with prominent Democrats and Clinton insiders, past and present.

- Lloyd Grove

topic: Past, Blood, Drawing, Attribution, Prominent

My biggest surprise of the year does involve Donald Trump and it involves his money. And I am one of the prominent disbelievers of his claims of wealth and how rich he was. He put out a press release before he did his financial disclosure form saying he made over $200 million from a TV show.If you know about the economics of televisions, that sounds impossible. I don`t believe it.

- Lawrence O'Donnell

topic: Believe, Years, Tv Shows, Disbelievers, Press Release

The sexual regions constitute a particularly vulnerable spot, and remain so even in man, and the need for their protection which thus exists conflicts with the prominent display required for sexual allurement. This end is far more effectively attained, with greater advantage and less disadvantage, by concentrating the chief ensigns of sexual attractiveness on the upper and more conspicuous parts of the body. This method is well-nigh universal among animals as well as in man.

- Havelock Ellis

source: Havelock Ellis (1905). “Studies in the Psychology of Sex: Sexual selection in man: I. Touch. II. Smell. III. Hearing. IV. Vision”

topic: Animal, Men, Needs, Prominent

Collectively the media; the meat, oil, and dairy industries; most prominent chefs and cookbook authors; and our own government are not presenting accurate advice about the healthiest way to eat.

- Caldwell Esselstyn

topic: Government, Media, Oil, Prominent

Researchers have known for some time now that the cornerstone of all degenerative conditions, including brain disorders, is inflammation. But what they didn’t have documented until now are the instigators of that inflammation—the first missteps that prompt this deadly reaction. And what they are finding is that gluten, and a high-carbohydrate diet for that matter, are among the most prominent stimulators of inflammatory pathways that reach the brain.

- David Perlmutter

topic: Brain, Gluten, Matter, Instigators, Carbohydrates

Whoever would understand the character of Washington, in all its compass and grandeur, must learn it from his own writings, and from a complete history of his country during the long period in which he was the most prominent actor.

- Jared Sparks

source: Jared Sparks (1853). “The life of George Washington”, p.6

topic: Country, Writing, Character, Prominent

A dangerous thesis has taken hold among many in the GOP: that it might be better to lose the '06 election and re-group. In American history, when a faction in the majority party decides the party is tired and could benefit from some time in the wilderness, the voters usually oblige. Most recently, the latest issue of Washington Monthly includes a cover story featuring seven such articles from prominent Republican strategists, insiders and commentators.

- Larry Sabato

source: "Angry Politics: 'Voters Gone Wild' in 2006" by Larry Sabato and David Wasserman, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 17, 2006.

topic: Party, Taken, Tired, Insiders, Prominent

We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared.

- Emperor Norton

topic: Wish, President, United States, Prominent

It is possible for the most obscure person in a church, with a heart right toward God, to exercise as much power for the evangelization of the world, as it is for those who stand in the most prominent positions.

- John Mott

topic: Heart, Exercise, Church, Inspirational Missionary, Prominent

I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts.

- Geoffrey Rush

topic: Country, Attitude, Sheep, Prominent