Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saint Augustine

For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence has warranted. Then certainly he who kills himself is a homicide, and so much the guiltier of his own death as he was more innocent of that offence for which he doomed himself to die.

Neal Stephenson

But then, Cap'n Crunch in a flake form would be suicidal madness; it would last about as long, when immersed in milk, as snowflakes sifting down into a deep fryer. No, the cereal engineers at General Mills had to find a shape that would minimize surface area, and, as some sort of compromise between the sphere that is dictated by Euclidean geometry and whatever sunken treasure related shapes that the cereal aestheticians were probably clamoring for, they came up with this hard -to-pin-down striated pillow formation.

Thomas A. Edison

Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward....

William Shakespeare

It is silliness to live when to live is torment.

Anne Sexton

The body is a damn hard thing to kill.

Anne Sexton

Thief!- how did you crawl into, crawl down alone into the death I wanted so badly and for so long ...

Anthony Burgess

The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived notoriety, extreme depression, a yielding to the suicidal impulse.

Thomas Browne

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life. I shall find one.

Rush Limbaugh

I don't watch cable news at night. So I can honestly tell you that I am not in a funk, I am not depressed, I'm not suicidal, I'm not thinking it's over.

William Feather

Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation.

Rodney Carrington

If I do the same act that I did in 1995, in essence you're saying (in a robotic voice), 'My mind has never changed'

William Arthur Ward

The essence of life is to care. The beauty of life is to give.

Wyclef Jean

No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me is hip-hop. But the hip-hop community I came up in isn't a loyal community.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Melody is the essence of music.

Ansel Adams

In some photographs the essence of light and space dominate; in others, the substance of rock and wood, and the luminous insistence of growing things...It is my intention to present-through the medium of photography-intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to spectators...

Mike Leigh

It's important to be true to the events, but the most important thing is to get to the essence of the experience. Not to be bogged down in an academic way by a notion of the truth. First of all, the truth is an illusive and spurious concept.

Jose Marti

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.

Nikolai Petrov

The essence of the methods (used by the Kremlin) is to remove from power those leaders that are too independent from its point of view.

Rick James

I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength.

Warren Zevon

Here's a story that I really want to tell about Bo Diddley at the OK corral.

Jim Sullivan

I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am.

Tom Wopat

I had no real specific dream, other than I really wanted to do musical comedy. Even before that, when I was a small child, I wanted to be a singer.

Steven Hall

I'm a bit suspicious of people who are narrow in their musical tastes.

Kurt Cobain

I've never considered musical equipment very sacred.

Larry Gelbart

If Hitler’s still alive, I hope he’s out of town with a musical.

Liza Minnelli

And I'm starting work on a musical set in New York.

Emmy Rossum

I love music. I'd love to go on Broadway and do a musical there. I just like to kind of go with whatever's inspiring at the moment, and kind of follow that as far as I can.