Famous Quotes & Sayings

F. Scott Fitzgerald

He's a bootlegger....One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.

Woody Allen

God, you Jews are truly exotic." Exotic? She should only know the Greenblatts. Or Mr. and Mrs. Milton Sharpstein, my father's friends. Or for that matter, my cousin Tovah. Exotic? I mean, they're nice, but hardly exotic with their endless bickering over the best way to combat indigestion or how far back to sit from the television set.

Rodney Dangerfield

My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.

Sarah Dessen

I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings but cousins and aunts and uncles, an entire tribe to claim as your own. Maybe you would feel lost in the crowd. Or sheltered by it. Whatever the case, one things was for sure: like it or not, you'd never be alone.

William Ralph Inge

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

Rick Wakeman

As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist.

Dennis Hastert

Our brothers, cousins, uncles, husbands, neighbors were in the war, ... Not everyone's cousin or uncle is in this war.

Joseph Kennedy

I guess my first reaction was 'Ask not what you can do for your cousin but what you can do for his magazine.

Nancy Werlin

Anyone in this world can have the power of life and death over someone else. It's horrible, but true. All you need to do is take it. And once you have -- there is no going back. (The Killer's Cousin)

Carl Jung

Of course, I didn't kill them. They're just taking a little ... siesta, that's all.

Rob Zombie

I'm psychotically involved in every tiny little aspect. That's just the way I've been about everything my whole life.

Richard Baxter

Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied. We know little of the creature, till we know it as it stands related to the Creator.

Renzo Piano

A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesnt just draw things.

Rebecca West

it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult.

Russell Brand

Fear travels fast. Love travels a little more slowly. Rationale takes a little more consideration.

Russell Brand

As a person I'm a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical.

Ron Chernow

I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.

Samuel Rogers

Every day a little life, a blank to be inscribed with gentle thoughts.

Van Orden

He never put on airs. He never tried to outdo anybody. Because of that, his popularity simply grew,

Vance Havner

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

William Devane

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

Kathleen Hanna

Popularity is totally overrated.

Mark Twain

The best of us would rather be popular than right.

Margaret Thatcher

I will not change just to court popularity.

Jonathan Franzen

Popularity has become its own justification.

Mia Wasikowska

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.

Harrison Ford

The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.