Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dutch Proverb

The soup is never eaten as hot as it was served.

Mary Roach

I have not eaten a lot of insects. I ate a termite in Africa, but it was on a bet. It was a soldier termite. It was alive, and I don't really recommend the live soldier termite as something you want to start with if you're going to start exploring eating insects.

Kelly Clarkson

Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me.

Archibald Cox

What can you or I do? Alone, almost nothing. Yet one person - you alone - can make the difference. . . . The failure of just one person to join, to participate, to do whatever he or she can - your failure or my failure - may mean that there is just one too few to win the fight for sanity, and so leave the world on the road to destruction. Each of us, all of us, must do what we can.

Ayn Rand

The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face.

Ayn Rand

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that 'to feel' is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality.

Ayn Rand

Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way, when and if you are an architect?" Yes." My dear fellow, who will let you?" That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

Ayn Rand

to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.

Ayn Rand

I am not the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds, I am not a sacrifice on their altars.

Brian Selznick

I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.

James Whistler

A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.

John Thomas

By this afternoon, I'm sure there will be some emergencies.

Gar Heard

He'll be back, I am sure he'll be back.

Tom Fisher

He's a veteran quarterback. I'm sure he'll be on top of his game.

Chance VanGundy

I thought for sure we were a top-10 team in our district.

Bob Shoop

I'm not sure what to make of them.

Bob Brenly

I'm pretty sure Tony has already been ejected from this ballgame,

Renaldo Wynn

I'm sure they're going to try to come at us with those same kind of things.

Manu Ginobili

I?m sure they?re going nuts, ... I just tried to be in the right spot.

Shane Costa

I'm sure they'll get one. And then things will get better.

Don Cherry

I never, ever said 'don't wear a visor,'

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The key to wealth is that it doesn't matter. Once you've had it, you don't think anything of it; you can wear cheap watches.

Natalia Kills

I really can't break away from wearing black and leather!

Harry Graf Kessler

I am utterly, consummately intense, wearing sunflowers and poppies and dahlias in my buttonhole.

Bill Young

We're wearing out our troops, we're wearing out the equipment,

Jane Wagner

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Bella Abzug

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.

Doris Lessing

There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them.

Ani Difranco

i found religion in the greeting card aisle now i know hallmark was right

Alison Lurie

We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

D. H. Lawrence

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

Clara Zetkin

What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement.

Clara Zetkin

The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?