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  • Empty Chambers make foolish maides. -- George Herbert
  • I've always liked Dennis Chambers, he's real flashy. -- Travis Barker
  • I`ve always liked Dennis Chambers, he`s real flashy. -- Travis Barker
  • I never could get into The Chambers Brothers. They make good records, but I never could get behind it. -- Bruce Johnston
  • In the future the way that Whittaker Chambers was able to carry out forgery by typewriter will be disclosed. -- Alger Hiss
  • I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter. -- Alger Hiss
  • The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely Façade must needs have lovely Chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men. -- Erica Jong
  • I advised Chambers, and would advise every young man beginning to compose, to do it as fast as he can, to get a habit of having his mind to start promptly; it is so much more difficult to improve in speed than in accuracy. -- Samuel Johnson
  • I started in high school with a teacher there. I also took lessons at the Conservatory of Music in Detroit. Detroit was very motivating. There were a lot of local people who inspired me like Kenny Burrell, Paul Chambers, Roy Brooks, Donald Byrd, etc. -- Yusef Lateef
  • I dwell in Possibility A fairer House than Prose More numerous of Windows Superior--for Doors Of Chambers as the Cedars Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky Of Visitors--the fairest For Occupation--This The spreading wide my narrow Hands To gather Paradise -- Emily Dickinson
  • The science-fictional motif of lethal, infectious information - bad memes - is a fascinating one, with an extended history. One of the earliest instances is Robert W. Chambers's 'The King in Yellow' from 1895. Chambers's conceit is a malevolent play: read beyond Act II, and you go mad. -- Paul Di Filippo
  • I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz. -- David Irving
  • I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself. -- Jean-Marie Le Pen
  • Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management. -- Edward Kennedy
  • Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul. -- Ezra Taft Benson
  • The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour. -- Walter Savage Landor
  • Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes! -- Alan Parsons
  • Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity. -- Lionel Blue
  • People in Nevada know me from the street to the ring to the Senate chambers. I've never had to prove my manhood to anyone. -- Harry Reid
  • Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise! -- Alexander Pope
  • I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement. -- Harlan Coben
  • When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines. -- Jean-Marie Le Pen
  • For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe. -- Harriet Martineau
  • I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night. -- Harold H. Greene
  • The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you. -- Eric Allin Cornell
  • When there are no gas chambers, no barbed wire, and no concentration camps, many don't recognize the perpetration of new genocides and other targeted mass atrocity crimes because they may not look the same. -- John Prendergast
  • What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended. -- Barack Obama
  • If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail. -- Jean-Marie Le Pen
  • It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany. -- Gene Simmons
  • But he said Blanket Hill should be a national monument. And so we came out of his chambers feeling, though while we had lost to the powers of darkness, we had at least shown one Federal Judge what the right path would have been. -- William Kunstler
  • Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs. -- Martin Heidegger
  • I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. -- Henry David Thoreau
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  • New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language. -- Daniel Hannan
  • A fantastic model of collaboration: thinking partners who aren't echo chambers. -- Margaret Heffernan
  • Four simple chambers.A thousand complicated doors.One of them is yours. -- Jill Alexander Essbaum
  • In chambers deep, Where waters sleep, What unknown treasures pave the floor. -- Edward Young
  • Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers? -- John Milton
  • Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire. -- Adrienne Rich
  • The atmosphere breathes rest and comfort, and the many chambers seem full of welcomes. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart. -- David Guterson
  • The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul. -- David O. McKay
  • O' Lord, enlarge the chambers within my heart so that my soul burns in Thy divine spark . -- Jamil Hussain
  • Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one's own self. -- Franz Kafka
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  • Screenwriting is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that. -- James L. Brooks
  • I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the Holocaust. -- Noam Chomsky
  • Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves. -- Golda Meir
  • There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast. -- Hosea Ballou
  • We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • As long as His Majesty is sick, I will move my bed to his chambers, the better to care for him. -- Catherine Parr
  • I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers. -- Ken Livingstone
  • Simultaneous recording with superimposed ionization chambers and Wilson chambers, ionization chambers and sets of counting tubes, has not yet been carried out. -- Victor Francis Hess
  • [L]et light Rise from the chambers of the east, and bring The honey'd dew that cometh on waking day. O radiant morning... -- William Blake
  • Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride! -- Bertha von Suttner
  • The final battle against intolerance is to be fought -- not in the chambers of any legislature -- but in the hearts of men. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Deep in the secret chambers of my heart I muse my life-long hate, and without flinch I bear it nobly as I live my part. -- Claude McKay
  • We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown. -- T. S. Eliot
  • Yes, there were gas chambers. Millions of Jews died. There is no question. I don't know the figures. I'm not an expert on the Holocaust. -- David Irving
  • Dive deep into the chambers of your heart. Find out the real, infinite 'I'. Rest there peacefully for ever and become identical with the Supreme Self. -- Ramana Maharshi
  • I take a deep breath and sidestep my fear and begin speaking from the place where beauty and bravery meet--within the chambers of a quivering heart. -- Terry Tempest Williams
  • I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs. -- Wilkie Collins
  • There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
  • I have said and I repeat, at the risk of being sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War. -- Jean-Marie Le Pen
  • The unfortunate part is there`s not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback. -- Al Sharpton
  • Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey. -- Pat Conroy
  • I've always believed phone calls from kids must be allowed if mothers are to feel welcome in the workplace, as anyone who has worked in my chambers can attest. -- Sonia Sotomayor
  • I felt the tributaries of his veins, wished to enter into his bloodstream, travel there, dissolved and bodiless, to take refuge in the thick walled chambers of his heart. -- Diana Gabaldon
  • 'Tis they who are in their own chambers haunted By thoughts that like unbidden guests intrude, And sit down, uninvited and unwanted, And make a nightmare of the solitude. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • The inner chambers of the soul are like the photographer's darkroom. Like a laboratory. One cannot stay there all the time or it becomes the solitary cell of the neurotic. -- Anais Nin
  • If I held a revolver to your head, James, and pulled the trigger, would it really matter if I did not know that there were not bullets in the chambers? -- Cassandra Clare
  • We cut the hair from women after they had been exterminated in the gas chambers. The hair was then sent to factories, when it was woven into special fittings for gaskets. -- Rudolf Hoss
  • Safe-breaking and vault-breaking are at least as old as the pyramids and burial chambers of Egypt. Poking holes in vaults and safes for profit appears to be as durable as greed. -- James Chiles
  • For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchenthan witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe. -- Harriet Martineau
  • Lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are link'd by many a hidden chain; Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise! Each stamps its image as the other flies! -- Samuel Rogers
  • 'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.' -- Charles Dickens
  • Because the Bush Administration will set no timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, both chambers of Congress acted to make sure our troops will not be left in Iraq indefinitely. -- Jan Schakowsky
  • I wonder, now, about interrogation chambers: why do they think bright light brings the truth out of people? They should try the seduction of shadows, where you cannot watch your words hit their target. -- Anna Funder
  • I did not see any major issues other than the jury substitutions. I can't know whether there's a problem there, until I read the transcript from the in-chambers conference, when those jurors were excused. -- Catherine Crier
  • Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed. -- Stanislaw Lem
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