Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laura Mvula

I got into the habit of filtering out all the good in my life, focusing on only the negative. I'm not sure why I did it, but it's a pretty depressing state.

Boethius

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

Edmund Spenser

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

Amy Sedaris

I really don't like going out. I don't like restaurants because I don't like the idea of someone, a waitress, being responsible for my evening. I like seconds, and more, and lots of conversation, and I've always hated the idea that in a restaurant an evening just ends. I find that incredibly depressing.

Aloe Blacc

Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics.

Anais Nin

The Frenchman, by nature, is sensuous and sensitive. He has intelligence, which makes him tired of life sooner than other kinds of men. He is not athletic: he sees the futility of the pursuit of fame; the climate at times depresses him.

Ann Beattie

It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.

Rita Rudner

Men have an easier time buying bathing suits. Women have two types: depressing and more depressing. Men have two types: nerdy and not nerdy.

Richard Dreyfuss

I have more fun and more grand and glorious moments of my life than anyone I've never known. I know that some people call that manic-depress, and that other people call that being touched by God. I just call myself lucky.

Lily Tomlin

No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.

Maya Angelou

One of the saddest things in the world is to see a cynical young person.

Oscar Wilde

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

Rose Byrne

As you get older, you just lose that confidence and narcissism you have in your twenties. You realize you have less time on the planet, and you become cynical and less confident.

Winston Churchill

The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.

Zadie Smith

The world is now multicultural the same way the world is round. It's not a selling point, it's not a 'quirky' feature, it's not a cynical marketing ploy, it's not an artistic statement, it's not even a plot device. It's a fact, like seedless grapes.

Henry Rollins

When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.

Henry A. Kissinger

Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.

Leonardo da Vinci

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

Billy Carter

I always said what I thought and I didn't hold anything back.

Bill Hicks

I've said all that I've had to say.

Theodor Reik

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

Frank Robinson

I just didn't have anything to say, so I said nothing.

Jean Rostand

There are things that don't deserve to be said briefly.

Harper Lee

I have said what I wanted to say and I will not say it again.

Gough Whitlam

I'm the only P.M. of which that can be said - 'His legislation was never declared invalid in the High Court.'

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Your offer," he said, "is far too idiotic to be declined.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Thank you, Sam," he said in a cracked whisper. "How far is there to go?" I don't know," said Sam, "because I don't know where we're going.