Quotes on Content

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.

Author: Lord Acton

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Author: Ansel Adams

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

Author: Bhumibol Adulyadej

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

Author: Aesop

Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?

Author: Charles Allen

I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

Author: Aaron Allston

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

Author: Hannah Arendt

How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.

Author: Mary Astell

Be content to seem what you really are.

Author: Marcus Aurelius

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Author: Francis Bacon

There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.

Author: Kevin Bacon

Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.

Author: Barnabe Barnes

Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.

Author: Hilaire Belloc

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

Author: Boethius

I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.

Author: Arthur Boyd

We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it.

Author: Billy Bragg

As far as Beau is concerned, we're on the same team, we root for each other. If my parts are slightly more attractive, or are perceived that way by others, he's very content.

Author: Jeff Bridges

I strongly support the Bush Administration's clean diesel rules, which will reduce air pollution from diesel engines by more than 90 percent, and reduce the sulfur content of diesel fuel by more than 95 percent.

Author: Steve Buyer

It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?

Author: Tucker Carlson

Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.

Author: Vinton Cerf

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

Author: Winston Churchill

I think I'm as content as one can be.

Author: Nikki Cox

It was immediately clear to me that security was a cross-cutting issue, so rather than dividing the space up in parallel with each of the other areas, I wanted security cut across the areas in addition to having its own content.

Author: Steve Crocker

I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.

Author: Aleister Crowley

Because the competitive landscape of the web is such that the site which looks and works best gets the most traffic, developers and designers put a premium on the presentation of that content and let structural markup take a back seat.

Author: Mike Davidson

For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish online only needed to worry about the graphical web browser.

Author: Mike Davidson

Our old site did not have very good support for the disabled, but our new site should soon have much better support. With all of our content in divs now, we can hide all but the relevant chunks of content and navigation with a simple alternate CSS file.

Author: Mike Davidson

He has the most who is most content with the least.

Author: Diogenes

The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content.

Author: John Doerr

There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity.

Author: John Doerr

I can't tell you what that little ingredient is which makes that first person want to go on and aggressively do more, and the other person be content to not do that. It's a mystery, but it does happen.

Author: Sam Donaldson

Today you can't go by the titles of the shows to know what the content of the show may be.

Author: Donna Douglas

To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.

Author: Marie Ebner-Eschenbach

I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.

Author: Aaron Eckhart

They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there.

Author: Mark Edwards

To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.

Author: Tryon Edwards

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

Author: Desiderius Erasmus

But I just really think there is a natural extension into other types of media because it's an excellent system for reliably locating and retrieving content.

Author: Shawn Fanning

As for editorial content, that's the stuff you separate the ads with.

Author: Lord Fleet

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.

Author: Howard Gardner

Content is often the reason users come to your site.

Author: Jesse Garrett

I knew style and content went hand in hand.

Author: Boy George

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

Author: Barry Gibb

All I knew was that I was writing something out of my very guts, and that I was content.

Author: Winston Graham

Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

Author: Abbie Hoffman

I can assure you, that the gallant hearts that throb beneath its sacred folds, will only be content, when this glorious banner is planted first and foremost in the coming struggle for out independence.

Author: John Hood

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

Author: A. Housman

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

Author: Johan Huizinga

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

Author: Thomas Huxley

I expect to win. I've never been content with anything I've ever done.

Author: Randy Johnson

I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know.

Author: James Jones

There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter.

Author: Dean Kamen

Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.

Author: Anish Kapoor

The Indians, I was now speaking of, were not content with the common Enemies that lessen and destroy their Country-men, but invented an infallible Stratagem to purge their Tribe, and reduce their Multitude into far less Numbers.

Author: John Lawson

The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.

Author: Yo-Yo Ma

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.

Author: Elizabeth Montagu

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.

Author: Baron Montesquieu

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Author: Charles Montesquieu

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Author: Alfred Musset

Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end.

Author: John Newton

In terms of language, yeah we get bleeped and blurred and things, but in terms of content, I would probably say we're getting away with more here than we could get away with in Britain. And that surprised us so much!

Author: Graham Norton

One often thinks that using 2 different things like visual and sound lead to 2 different conclusions - to a different content - but in in my case it is all one.

Author: Alva Noto

We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.

Author: Tim O'Reilly

While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.

Author: Ivan Pavlov

As a rule, one should never place form over content.

Author: Manuel Puig

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.

Author: David Rockefeller

I am happy and content because I think I am.

Author: Alain Sage

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.

Author: Edward Sapir

There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

Author: Jose Saramago

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

Author: Lucius Seneca

Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and what's a taboo and what's not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.

Author: Richard Serra

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

Author: William Shakespeare

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

Author: William Shakespeare

I don't want a player that's content with not playing... But we wanted to play the guys that got us here.

Author: Don Shula

If Michael Steele doesn't make you sad, well, then there's radio host Rush Limbaugh, no longer content with wanting the President to fail, Rush is now calling out Mr. Obama as a girly man.

Author: David Shuster

Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content.

Author: Robert Smithson

There's probably a way to use that great content and to live under the radar now and then in order to reach a new audience. That's the thinking I'm talking about.

Author: John Tesh

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

Author: Jean Toomer

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.

Author: Kenneth Tynan

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Author: Lao Tzu

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Author: Lao Tzu

The problem is we need much more moral content.

Author: Cornel West

Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works.

Author: Frederick Wiseman