Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Snow

Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?

Diane von Furstenberg

Generosity is the best investment.

Carolina Herrera

I can get ready in 10 minutes.

Alan Kay

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

Alan Perlis

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

Charles Lamb

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

Betty White

Keep the other person's well being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.

Chelsea Clinton

I'm a big health food freak and a vegetarian devotee.

Charlyne Yi

Interviewing is tough, especially if you don't know what you're looking for.

C. S. Lewis

Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight, At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more, When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death, And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.

Carl Safina

[About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up. I got physically ill when I learned that ospreys and peregrine falcons weren't raising chicks because of what people were spraying on bugs at their farms and lawns. This was the first time I learned that humans could impact the environment with chemicals. [That a corporation would create a product that didn't operate as advertised] was shocking in a way we weren't inured to.

Bernard Barton

Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.

Bernard Berenson

I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival...each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.

Bill Vaughan

As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.

Bertrand Russell

As soon as it is held that any belief, no matter what, is important for some other reason than that it is true, a whole host of evils is ready to spring up.

Bertrand Russell

Thee will find out in time that I have a great love of professing vile sentiments, I don't know why, unless it springs from long efforts to avoid priggery.

Zack Moritz

That whole spring and summer, I was in the gym.

Cynthia Heimel

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself.

Ambrose Bierce

April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.

Jay Leno

Today is April 1, April Fools' Day, a day that people try to fool their friends and relatives. Don't confuse that with April 15, when people try to fool the IRS.

George Bernard Shaw

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

Gene Brown

Foolproof systems to not take into account the ingenuity of fools.

Plato

Even the gods love jokes.

John Oliver

Anybody who claims to be excited for April Fools' Day is probably a sociopath.

Thomas Shadwell

The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.