Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Warner

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend - "Just as good as the real

Oscar Wilde

A cynic is someon who knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

Oscar Wilde

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.

Lily Tomlin

No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Satan, our adversary, wants us to fail. He spreads lies as part of his effort to destroy our belief. He slyly suggests that the doubter, the skeptic, the cynic is sophisticated and intelligent, while those who have faith in God and His miracles are naive, blind, or brainwashed.

John Wanous

We found that personality traits did little in explaining which employees were highly cynical and which employees were not.

Amy Ray

An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.

Dave Allen

My church accepts all denominations - fivers, tenners, twenties.

Ambrose Bierce

Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.

Kirk Kaczor

Any time a team shows frustration it makes you feel good because you know you're doing your job.

Richard Hyman

Any idiot can amass intelligence. It is being able to leverage that knowledge. They are good at that.

Henry Stern

Any hill is a good hill, just watch out for rocks.

Raymond E. Feist

Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but that's never my intent. That's an unintended consequence of me just trying to entertain, to write what we used to call 'ripping yarns.'

Chevy Chase

Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people.

James Hogg

A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?

Vic Rimmer

Ashdown did a good job of maintaining what they had.

Terry Stotts

As good as we were in Seattle over that five-year period, and that five-year period was as good a five-year period as there had been in the history of the league, I don't know if we had a 14-game winning streak.

Greg Zipadelli

As good as we've been in the past, we've never been as good as this.

Ben Elton

Queen's music is uniquely theatrical. I had this vision where The Matrix meets the Arthurian legend meets Terminator 2.

Mike Birbiglia

Every sleep doctor I've talked to said it was an urban legend that you shouldn't wake up a sleepwalker. All that will happen is that you will get condescended to.

Neil Gaiman

Like the newspapers used to say, if the truth isn't big enough, you print the legend.

Maynard James Keenan

I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.

Dick Trickle

Not yet, when I'm gone I'll be a legend, right now I'm just very good at what I do.

Jean Giraud

A legend - now I am like a unicorn.

Rex Harrison

Robert Morley is a legend in his own lunchtime.

Roberto Duran

There is only one legend. That's me

Sylvester Croom

In some ways I think his legend is growing, I think it's getting bigger,

James Shapiro

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599

Jeevan Sivasubramaniam

As long as the book's vision is about something that's making life better for all people. That's our criteria.

Francis Mathew

As long as life exist, Overtaking is allowed.

Charles Stuart Calverley

Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Real life is often sloppy, tragic, ugly, embarrassing, unglamorous, and not made for TV.

Asif Kapadia

Real life is far more complicated than fiction.

Rich Coleman

Reading and writing are life skills that everyone should have the opportunity to learn,

Anthony Head

People said, 'That's going to be around your neck for the rest of your life. I didn't have a problem with it.

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Jim Tracy

A very wonderful note, I might add. A very professionally done thing.

Adelaide Anne Procter

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

Peter Beattie

The money might be better off used for things like law-and- order initiatives, schools and hospitals,

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Eric Desjardins

I've tried to play with the composites, and I still might go to it eventually, ... But I'm used to the feel of the wooden sticks and I like them.

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

Mike Rumph

This is not a stopgap, ... It might be like this for a while.

Daunte Culpepper

That's how it is. You might go through a stretch like that sometimes. Hopefully, I'll go through a stretch when I throw 12 or 15 touchdowns in a row without a pick.

Mike Dargani

We wanted to do modern Japanese. We wanted to tweak things, to play with ingredients.

Jehan Perera

It is a referendum on nationalism versus internationalism, on modernity versus tradition.

Arnold Schoenberg

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

Guy deBord

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

Frank Zappa

Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.

Giorgio Armani

Modern life requires us to be more and more flexible in our attire.

Walt Kelly

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.

Roger Lempke

If we want to keep soldiers, we need to train them on modern equipment.

Ike Taylor

Bend, don't break. That was our motto today.

Rudolph Valentino

What is your motto Mr. Valentino? Live and Let Live.

Eric Andre

A hole is a hole has always been my motto.

Oprah Winfrey

Intent and service-that is my motto.

John Chafee

Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.

Brandon Sanderson

For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me. Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy.

Auguste Rodin

The more simple we are, the more complete we become.

Ayelet Waldman

The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: 'Where,' the reader asks, 'do you get your ideas?' It's a simple question, and my usual response is a kind of helpless, 'I don't know.'

Brian Tracy

The better organized you are in the simple things, the more spontaneous and free you can be in the ore important things.

Brad Goreski

Putting on a new pair of glasses or sunglasses is a simple way to completely transform your look - just like a new hairstyle.

Jane Hirshfield

A poem makes clear without making simple. Poetry's language carries what lives outside language. It's as if you were given a 5-gallon bucket with 10 gallons of water in it. Mysterious thirsts are answered. That alchemical bucket carries secrets also, even the ones we keep from ourselves.

Jan Koum

Be simple and reliable

Jamie Farr

I tried to make it a simple as possible for people so they could pronounce my name.

Calvin Coolidge

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

Don Brunell

What we suggest is that they look at ones already in place to see if they are necessary.