Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antonia Fraser

Why waste time instructing others when you could be reading the manuscripts yourself? The only exceptions are matters of foreign language.

Jackie Collins

Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?

Dick Francis

I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the know child.

Antonia Fraser

I enjoyed writing mysteries out of my imagination as a relief from all that research, and also because I could write them while traveling.

Jackie Collins

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

T. S. Eliot

What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

Virginia Woolf

Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Neil Gaiman

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

George Eliot

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

David Walton

Everyone can write jokes and makes things clever.

Frank Caliendo

I was very stale at Fox. Much of it was my own fault. I was lazy and didn't fight for things I wanted to do at other times. Most of my stuff consisted of setup/punchline jokes to the camera - a very old-school approach. I was part of the establishment, I guess.

Mike Birbiglia

Jokes are so personal, and they bring us together in so many ways.

Robin Ince

I have a problem with telling jokes about physics. Quite often the audience have no idea what you are talking about and, to be honest, I don't know what I'm talking about either.

Taylor Twellman

He jokes around -- when he looks up, he sees The Big Head. When he sees The Big Head, he reads where I'm going.

David Cross

I just often find myself getting shrill, angry and the jokes get more incredulous.

Cesar Romero

A joke a day keeps the gloom away!

Bill Griffith

I always thought of Levittown as a joke.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.

Winston Churchill

If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.

David Beckham

So it is going to put a lot of strain on my back.

Myrtle Reed

marriage is a great strain upon love.

Jon Lea

It just takes a lot of the stress and strain off the water supply.

C. S. Lewis

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.

Bethenny Frankel

Taste everything, eat nothing.

Bernard Berenson

Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.

Daniel Kessler

That was the worst taste you could have as a player. . . . That?s something you just don?t forget.

Tommy Amaker

I wish we could play. When you come off of a disappointing loss, you want to get back at it and get the feeling, the taste out of your mouth.

Jeff Lindsay

We're predators; we don't eat meat because it's handy, we eat meat because we have a taste for blood.

Agnes Repplier

It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.

Akshay Kumar

When you taste super-success after tasting super-failure, there is huge relief.

Charles Lamb

We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.