Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Disraeli

No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that it has been written by men who are ignorant of this principle and all the knowledge it involves. . . Language and religion do not make a race--there is only one thing which makes a race, and that is blood.

Brian K. Vaughan

I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

Brian Aldiss

Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post Gothic mode.

Janet Maslin

The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize.

Daniel Handler

The difference between a house and a home is like the difference between a man and a woman-- it might be embarrassing to explain, but it would be very unusual to get them confused.

Bob Dylan

He's hell bent for destruction, he's afraid and confused, and his brain has been mismanaged with great skill.

Boris Pasternak

Don't be upset. Don't listen to me. I only meant that I am jealous of a dark, unconscious element, something irrational, unfathomable. I am jealous of your toilet articles, of the drops of sweat on your skin, of the germs in the air you breathe which could get into your blood and poison you. And I am jealous of Komarovsky, as if he were an infectious disease. Someday he will take you away, just as certainly as death will someday separate us. I know this must seem obscure and confused, but I can't say it more clearly. I love you madly, irrationally, infinitely.

Bill Hicks

I'm totally confused about what I'm going to do with my life.

Bono

I'm a singer, not a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused. It's not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

Brett Favre

Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.

Arthur Adamov

What is there? I know first of all that I am. But who am I? All I know of myself is that I suffer. And if I suffer it is because at the origin of myself there is mutilation, separation. I am separated. What I am separated from -- I cannot name it. But I am separated.

Jamie Farr

It makes you famous, you get money from it, you go on and do the best you can, but it really is dreadful that people don't know your name.

James Van Der Beek

I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.

Jane Smiley

Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones.

Asa Gray

This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm.

Brian Wilson

I earned my famous name.

Brie Larson

I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from 'Alice in Wonderland,' so we've got some strange names in our family.

Aphra Behn

Dear me no Dears, Sir ...

John Rice

Thank you for giving us back Lauren and Steve,

Bruce Sutter

You never think that giving up two home runs to the same guy helped you get in the Hall of Fame. But ... that's what might have happened.

Brett Somers

I had to give up martinis - I enjoyed them too much.

Brandon Sanderson

Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect, save, help- but know when to give up. They're precarious ledges to walk. How do I do it?

Archie Panjabi

A lot of the time, people want to hear from someone like myself. They want to give it a shot. It's challenging, and it's driven me more than discouraged me.

Babe Ruth

It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.

Baruch Spinoza

The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.

Augustine Birrell

It can never be wrong to give pleasure.

Arthur Mitchell

What does dance give you? The freedom to be who you are and do what you want to do.