Famous Quotes & Sayings

Valerie Azlynn

I like a man with some extra padding.

Francis Jeffrey

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

Gerald Gray

To the man who got shot, I apologize.

Clara Schumann

Every man has his faults; I have and so have you - you will allow me to say so!

H. L. Hunt

This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty.

Norman Ford

The question ""Who ought to be boss?"" is like as ""Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?"" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

Dorothy Stratten

In a way, I'm like Will Rogers, never having met a man I really disliked. I'm not a vamp. I just like men.

Robin Williams

I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.

Bill Owen

Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and waste a lifetime!

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Margaret Mead

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Gregory David Roberts

Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.

Hugh Prather

One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.

Gore Vidal

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

Jack White

The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more.

Harry S Truman

Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.

Immanuel Kant

A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral.

J. K. Rowling

He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.

Delta Goodrem

I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.

Denis Johnson

Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.

Bobby Farrelly

Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.

Andrew Motion

But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

Andrew Motion

I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.

Andrew Motion

I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.

Andrew Motion

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

Andrew McMahon

I consider myself a person like everyone else, and I take my time writing my records because I feel like it captures more of who I am. You have a much greater chance of hitting on themes and points...that could play into someone else's life in a larger way.

Andrew Mason

Groupon as a company - it's built into the business model - is about surprise. A new deal that surprises you every day. We've carried that over to our brand, in the writing and the marketing that we do, and in the internal corporate culture.

Bobby Jackson

They just wanted it more. We did all the right things in the first 12 minutes, and did all the wrong things from then on out.