Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Keys

You got to realize that the vision, the image, according to 1964 U.S. rock and roll standards, was mohair suit and tie, and nicey-nicey ol' boy next door.

Alfred North Whitehead

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.

Charles Dickens

Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.

Alvin Gentry

Or Rip comes off and finds Chauncey Billups right here.

Lao Tzu

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Albert Schweitzer

Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.

Mark Twain

Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Hjalmar Branting

A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal

Annie Proulx

No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble.

Erykah Badu

The Man That Knowz Something Knowz That He Knowz Nothing At All.

Bobby Frankel

I want to be the Martha Stewart of the health-food industry — without the jail.

Arundhati Roy

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

Kevin Bardsley

We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned.

Charles Fillmore

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

Charles Fillmore

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Charles Bukowski

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Charles Bukowski

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Charles Bukowski

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Charles Bukowski

Life's as kind as you let it be.

Charles Bukowski

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Valerie Azlynn

I like a man with some extra padding.

Rebecca H. Davis

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

Saint Bernard

A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they do, whereby his superiority may be apparent.

Jackee Harry

I like a man who's going to tell me 'No!' sometimes.

Michael Servetus

To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man.

Francis Beaumont

Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Treat a man as he is, he will remain so. Treat a man the way he can be and ought to be, and he will become as he can be and should be.

Robert Conrad

You know, this whole thing about Ricky Martin, and how successful that young man is. He's 27, I was 29.

Hampton Sides

I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!

Stephen Chow

A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.