Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Alvarez

It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money.

Artie Lange

Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

Amy Poehler

If you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with without denigrating them or insulting them, then you may actually be heard.

Andre Maurois

When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised

Anthony Holden

It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.

Aneurin Bevan

In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.

Robert H. Schuller

Classical theology defines sin as 'rebellion against God.' The answer is not incorrect as much as it is shallow and insulting to the human being. Every person deserves to be treated with dignity even if he or she is a 'rebellious sinner'.

Thomas Carlyle

Thirty millions, mostly fools.

Stephenie Meyer

You’ve got to have a little more confidence in us than that. It’s insulting.

Linda Gray

We want them to have exposure to females who have a career and a family. We want to let them know that you don't have to choose one or the other.

Chris Bennett

Everything you do has to drive content, and the rest takes care of itself.

Ed Asner

I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.

David Horowitz

I often wonder what my life would be like without the use of a library. Throughout my education and career, public and private libraries have been not only the key to much of the knowledge I have acquired, but also have given me a direction within my profession. The best thing about the library is that it is available not only to me, but to everyone. It does not discriminate.

David Hume

The more instances we examine, and the more care we employ, the more assurance shall we acquire, that the enumeration, which we form from the whole, is complete and entire.

Ben Stiller

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that's for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.

Bear Grylls

I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.

Charles Dickens

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

Charles Caleb Colton

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than in maintaining them. As to reverses, no general cart presume to say that he may not be defeated; but he can, and ought to say, that he will not be surprised.

Charles Caleb Colton

Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.

Charles Spurgeon

To-morrow even may bring the final reckoning.

Charles Spurgeon

We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives.

Alan Watts

If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.

Alan Moore

While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.

Alan Bennett

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.