Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Hovhaness

This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of... well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me.

Akhenaton

Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success.

Edith Head

We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a wonderful musical or a fabulous fantasy?

Barney Frank

You know, when I was in college, there was a big debate: Do unions raise wages? Well, with regard to industrial unions, there were arguments back and forth -- international competition. It is now clear, I think, that whether or not you think unions raised wages 50 years ago, the absence of unions and their weakness that is inflicted by anti-union public policy depresses wages. The fact is that people who are not represented, in the service industries in particular, are the victims of policies which depress their wages.

Antony Gormley

It is a depressing business talking to journalist.

Bertrand Russell

We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.

Charles M. Schulz

Bob Dylan will be thirty years old this month..." "That's the most depressing thing I've ever heard.

Bill Maher

Anything is depressing if you dwell on it. The fact that religion could end the world? Yeah, I guess that could be considered depressing. But considering that there's also a lot to laugh at, I think it's a good balance.

John Grant

It was very depressing to realize that, when looking around for regimes that have systematically corrupted science within the past century or so, three stood out quite distinctly, head and shoulders above the rest of the herd: Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia, and Bush’s America. At times when working on the three relevant chapters, I had to remind myself which chapter was the one in front of me: the parallels between the three regimes, in terms of their vigorous attempts to trample honest science underfoot, are as horrifically close as that.

Cass Sunstein

I would reject the distinction between a Keynesian moment and a behavioral moment.

Byron Katie

Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?

Bryan Ferry

I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.

Upinder Dhillon

We've got a lot to be proud of, but moments like this give us pause for thought.

Diego Maradona

Money is not a motivating factor. I do what comes to me at that moment.

Dick Cavett

Every comic can report a few 'gift from the gods' moments.

Edna O'Brien

In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.

Charlie Simpson

Pop is in a shocking state at the moment.

Eric Haney

It's fantasy, it's television, it's not for real. But it can put you back in the moment. I did have some moments where I had to turn around and walk away.

Robert Frost

I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.

Sylvester Stallone

You are what you leave behind.

Simon Sinek

Great communicators don't just hear the words. Great communicators hear the meaning behind the words

Steve Jobs

To go forward you have to leave something behind

Tom Sturridge

I don't talk about my friends behind their back.

Victor Hugo

God is behind everything, but everything hides God.

Seth Grahame-Smith

Elizabeth sheathed her sword, knelt behind him, and strangled him to death with his own large bowel.

Martin McDonagh

It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind

Ernest Holmes

Every thought has a consequence. And every experience has a causative thought behind it.