Quotes and Sayings about Oracle

"I think of Oprah as a Mother Joseph wannabe, a daytime oracle rewarding the good and punishing the bad."
- Margaret Carlson
(Related: Mother, Oracle)

"Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle."
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Related: Poetry, Truth, Heart, Deep, Oracle)

"This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all."
- Richard Cobden
(Related: Government, Power, Company, Court, Oracle)

"They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart."
- John Morley
(Related: Business, Learning, Man)

"So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided."
- Ted Nelson
(Related: Oracle, Word)

"Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel."
- Jane Porter
(Related: Wisdom, Virtue, Country, Glory)

"Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three."
- Robert Rauschenberg
(Related: Oracle, Years)

"One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means."
- Lord Salisbury
(Related: Oracle)

"The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles."
- Henry David Thoreau
(Related: Excitement, Language)

"The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us."
- Paul Valery
(Related: Discovery, Folly, Metaphor, Oracle, Paradox, Proof, Spring)