Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton Chekhov

Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?

Allen Ginsberg

This is the same notion - Catholic exorcism, psychotherapy, shamanistic practices - getting to the moment when whatever it was gained access. And also to the name of the spirit. Just to know that it's the Ugly Spirit. That's a great step. Because the spirit doesn't want its name to be known.

Jack Baker

Tyco and WorldCom's comments soothe the market short-term, but it's a dead cat bounce. Things are too uncertain right now for markets to rally.

Rita Rudner

I just don't get cats. To me, they're a waste of fur.

Rita Rudner

Cats are a waste of fur.

Rita Mae Brown

I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat.

Thomas Huxley

As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room is infallible, his punctuality at meal times is admirable, and his pertinacity in jumping on people's shoulders till they give him some of the best of what is going, indicates great firmness.

Robert Moog

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

Sammy Hagar

I can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it.

Conor Oberst

You could be happy, the minute you try. Why won't you try? Oh won't you try?

Clint Howard

And as an actor - or even as a person in the industry - if you're unwilling to change, you're just going to get swamped. You've got to be flexible, and you've got to go with the flow. That's what I try to do as an actor.

Danny Pudi

Stereotypes happen. I try not to embrace them or avoid them.

David Foster

Try to let what is unfair teach you.

David Foster Wallace

Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it.

Andrew Flintoff

I can lose my temper from time to time, but I try not to lose it on the pitch because it can't help.

Ambrose Bierce

critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.

Ambrose Bierce

The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself.

Anthony Horowitz

The platform underneath the balloon fell on her as she was trying to escape," she explained. "She was crushed." "I'd have been disappointed too.

Bella Thorne

I'm in the studio for hours in that tiny little box, and really, the performing part is what I'm most excited about.

Albert Schweitzer

Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

Angie Martinez

Back then, Lisa Lisa was somebody that I liked. She was Puerto Rican, and I related to her somewhat. I was a little bit of a fan.

Kin Hubbard

A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.

Michael Foot

Politicians live in little worlds of their own and imagine they are the universe.

Maurice Blanchot

If nothing were substituted for everything, it would still be too much and too little.

Maurice Ravel

I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little.

Philip Warren Anderson

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.

John Tyler

In 1840 I was called from my farm to undertake the administration of public affairs and I foresaw that I was called to a bed of thorns. I now leave that bed which has afforded me little rest, and eagerly seek repose in the quiet enjoyments of rural life.