Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Yaeger

Magic Johnson was in the seventh year of his Hall of Fame career when thoughts of his basketball afterlife led him to the office of uber-executive Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Hollywood's most powerful agency.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.

Michel Onfray

By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of futility in the present. If the prospect of getting taken up to paradise generates joy, it is the mindless joy of a baby picked up from his crib.

Bill Maher

Politicians will promise some pretty ridiculous things. They will promise a chicken in every pot. They'll promise that they'll keep Social Security solvent. They'll promise drugs for old people. They'll promise lots of stuff. But it doesn't come near the kind of promises that religion makes. The Mormons promise that if you're good while you're on Earth, you get to rule over your own planet in the afterlife. Now, there's an entitlement that goes a little bit beyond prescription drugs for old people.

Anton Chekhov

Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.

Bonnie Raitt

I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.

Art Buchwald

... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech.

Drew Barrymore

I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my luck, I'll get myself to that perfect goal weight, and I'll get hit by a bus. Then I'll be like... looking at myself from some afterlife going, 'You idiot. You could have had that agnolotti, dummy.'

Adelbert von Chamisso

On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.

Carrie Brownstein

For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifesting their affections are the correct ones. It's not just about being a fan, it's about how you perform your fandom. That's always been interesting to me.

Carl Sagan

UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable.

Bill Bryson

The English invented cricket to make other human endeavors look interesting.

Bette Davis

If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.

Bernadette Devlin

I'm not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting.

Bill Burton

Something that is interesting about the current polling is that, as you watch Hillary's [Clinton] numbers fluctuate, part of the reason that they are is because the Obama coalition, younger voters, African-American voters, Latino voters, they're not showing up in as large a number for her as they did for President [Barack] Obama.

Beck

Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.

Diane von Furstenberg

If you pay attention, everyone is a novel. The most boring person, if you sit down and really listen, is someone interesting.

David Minge

The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system.

Carrie Snodgress

I don't see myself being an actress forever.

Bernard Arnault

A good product can last forever.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed.

Bill Vaughan

There is no occasion for our rejoicing at a foe's death, because our own life will also not last forever.

James Jones

Theaters like (the Landmark), I hope they will forever be salvaged. Long live this theater!

Jussie Smollett

I would love to do a song with Janet Jackson. Janet was, is, forever will be, the ultimate. She's the ultimate dream girl for every guy - and for every girl.

Mario Lemieux

I'm still optimistic this team will be here forever but, again, we need a new facility, ... I don't know how many times I need to say it, but this is the last time I'm going to.

Becca Fitzpatrick

This was it. Together. Forever. As we left it all behind, the sun warmed my back, lighting the way before us. I knew of no better omen.

B. B. King

May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.