Famous Quotes & Sayings

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I should've known it wasn't going to work out between my ex-wife and me. After all, I'm a Libra and she's a bitch.

Judy Gold

I didn't want to be known as a gay comic, but as a comic who happens to be gay.

Matthew Bright

He looked like such a Republican. He dressed like Pee-Wee Herman. But had I known what he had done when I was reading about him, I might have thought different.

Diane Nelson

I prefer to be known as an executive rather than a girl.

In some places it's known as a tornado. In others, a cyclone. And in still others, the Idiot's Merry-go-round. But around here they'll always be known as screw-boys.

Albert Brooks

It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than by 60 million for something you're not.

Jerilyn Ross

It lets people know that it's a real and a serious and a treatable disorder, ... So many people for so long have not known what's wrong with them.

Al Thornton

It's very important for us. We're known as a team around the league that doesn't play well on the road. We have to get that monkey off our backs.

Marvin Miller

It tells me really what I've known all along. And that is that the NHLPA has never been a legitimate union at any time. It has always been an offshoot of management.

Dustin Pedroia

I just try to see the ball and hit it. If I get a hit, I get a hit. If I get out, I get out. There's no secret about it.

Doug Liman

It's no secret that my process is a little bit loose and can be a little bit infuriating to a studio if they don't know what they're signing up for.

David Foster Wallace

There are secrets within secrets, though--always.

T. Harv Eker

Money is a result, wealth is a result, health is a result, illness is a result, your weight is a result. We live in a world of cause and effect.

Rajneesh

This is the secret, THE secret ... De-automatize.

Susan Cain

The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting.

Stokely Carmichael

The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.

Stewart O'Nan

The spirit of Jane Eyre looms over Once Upon a Day. Lisa Tucker keeps the plot of this gothic novel bubbling with tons of juicy family secrets.

Stephen Fry

One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you're never going to match up and that everybody else's life is going to be better and finer and fuller. That everyone else attended some secret lesson in which how to live was taught and you had a dental appointment that day, or you were somehow not invited. And the point of great writers like Wilde is that they make that invitation to you.

Edward Fitzgerald

And when like her, O Saki, you shall pass.

Pat Paulsen

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

Ronald Reagan

Today we have done what we had to do. If necessary, we shall do it again.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

Anu Garg

Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me.

Thomas Wolfe

I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.

Hillary Clinton

I think it is appropriate when you look at the test that you have to meet to be commander-in-chief for Americans to be thoughtful about, you know, who has the experience and the approach that is best likely to work.

George S. Patton

Those who live in fear die a thousand deaths.

Jack Nicholson

You are more thoughtful because you don't act as quickly anymore. When I turned 70 it was the first time I felt young for my age. Fifty dropped on me like a ton of bricks - there is something about that number - but when 70 came along I felt good about it.

Aeschylus

To learn is to be young, however old.

Pontius Pilate

Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?

Alex Berenson

Wal-Mart does not do big mergers, though it will buy much smaller competitors in so-called 'tuck-in acquisitions.'

C. S. Lewis

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

Baltasar Gracian

Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot.

Charles Spurgeon

The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.

Clive James

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

e. e. cummings

So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality... If poetry is your goal, you've got to forget all about punishments and all about rewards and all about self-styled obligations and duties and responsibilities etcetera ad infinitum and remember one thing only: that it's you - nobody else - who determine your destiny and decide your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else... There's the artist's responsibility; and the most awful responsibility on earth.

Adolf Hitler

One should guard against believing the great masses to be more stupid than they actually are.

Ann Landers

If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.

Aesop

I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.

Aesop

Kindness is more persuasive than force.