Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

Henry IV

Paris must not be a cemetery. I do not wish to reign over the dead.

Jeffrey Herman

He had a reign of terror for three decades.

Charles Baudelaire

That in all times, mediocrity has dominated, that is indubitable; but that it reigns more than ever, that it is becoming absolutely triumphant and inhibiting, this is what is as true as it is distressing.

Blaise Pascal

And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?

Bruce Sterling

Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?

Edward Gibbon

[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks.

Edward McKendree Bounds

The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan.

Elizabeth I

I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!

Bill Burr

Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.

Bede Griffiths

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

David Sedaris

If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you scream, or would you innately understand that he meant you no harm?

Charlie Crist

I was a Republican, and I saw the activists and what they were doing; it was intolerable to me.

Audrey Meadows

Fans always ask, What did the bedroom look like? All they ever saw was Alice or Ralph going in and out.

Arnold Bennett

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

Bill Murray

If you walk up to some random person on the street, grab them by the shoulder, and say 'Did you just see what I saw?!', you'll find that no-one wants to talk to you.

Carol Leifer

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

Bill Watterson

It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw.

Michael Chitwood

I hate to sound corny when I use the word but -- where my roots are,

ASAP Rocky

I'm going to be a fashion icon in a minute. I'm not going to do it in a corny manner. I have a voice that speaks for a whole other market - not just black people, but high fashion urban people. I mix street wear with high fashion. It's never been seen before.

Ira Glass

I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with top hats, people with batons, confetti going off, how important it is to smile.

Annette Funicello

To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.

David Anaya

It was a big deal for us all those corny things kids did in those days.

John Glover

I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist.

Brian P. Cleary

It's perfectly okay if you don't understand every single one of them. For one thing, I make a lot of corny jokes, and you have to be 40 years old to get some of them.

Taye Diggs

As corny as it sounds, this is really a fantasy come true,

Katie Couric

After listening to my heart and my gut, two things that have served me pretty well in the past, I've decided I'll be leaving 'Today' at the end of May. ... It may sound kind of corny but I really feel that we've become friends through the years.