Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Robson

We haven't paid 25 million and 10 million and all the dazzling figures you see being banded about for strikers at the moment. We've been very clever and frugal in our dealings. He's not cheap, he's not for nothing, but we're very happy with the deal.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction

Thandie Newton

[We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from the reality of death.

Terry Pratchett

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...

Terry Pratchett

These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had given their lives for literature after a happy existence in the very best pastures.

Kimora Lee Simmons

You don't have to dumb down - you just have to find a clever, good, secure man. I've found a couple - I've been lucky - but it's probably hard for everybody to find that true love of a good man.

Kin Hubbard

Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.

Melissa Etheridge

There's been so many different types of musicals, and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it.

Michael Parkinson

So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or it?s a trivial - how do you like your eggs boiled?

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Ayn Rand

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Calvin Coolidge

That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.

Richard G. Scott

The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life.

Sydney Smith

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

Anna Jameson

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

The greater the man the greater the courtesy.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.

Thomas Cole

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry

Anthony Storr

Imagination flourishes best in solitude.

Bertrand Russell

Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

Linda Chandler

Live in your imagination, not in your past.

Jesse Ventura

I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.

Jean de La Fontaine

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.

Harriet Martineau

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.