Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maisie Williams

Sometimes people think they know you and they go, 'Hey!' and then they realize that they've just seen you on the television. That's kind of funny sometimes.

Jarome Iginla

That one wasn't so funny because he got hurt.

Barbara Kingsolver

He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.

Augusten Burroughs

The Schnauzer listens to jazz. I listen to jazz because he likes it, and I have even gone to jazz concerts with him, but truthfully I would rather listen to retarded children pounding on pan lids with wooden spoons.

Aziz Ansari

I'm in a situation with this girl that's as hopeless as overthrowing the Bush administration.

Ayn Rand

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

Benjamin Disraeli

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Kenneth Branagh

It's funny to be in rooms where you were originally referred to as 'The Shakespeare Guy' and to suddenly be in the position where you're 'The Blockbuster Guy.' That's a pretty unusual turnabout, I must say.

Benjamin Disraeli

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Ben Moody

I was horribly depressed, and I felt like I had failed as a band leader, a professional, as a person.

C. S. Lewis

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.

Blaise Pascal

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Alain de Botton

As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such.

Dale Neaman

You can tell a difference in them from the very first month. Once they have been given permission to be a woman, the depression lifts.

Alexander Lowen

Beneath the seemingly rational exterior of our lives is a fear of insanity. We dare not question the values by which we live or rebel against the roles we play for fear of putting our sanity in doubt.

Andrew Solomon

It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.

Anatole France

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

William Shakespeare

I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could, what grief should I forget!

Andy Borowitz

Let's not let a few dumb things Mitt Romney said in private overshadow the many idiotic things he's said in public.

Mia Kirshner

I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps.

Dan Buenning

Maybe we're just too dumb to know we shouldn't be doing this. And we really don't care.

Juan Samuel

Some of the people called the guy dumb and stupid and said they didn't think he was going to make it.

Adam Morrison

You know, if we would have lost, I don't think I would have been the one complaining about what people said. It's a very emotional game. You guys have got to be dumb if you don't think they were talking trash when they were up nine with nine minutes to go.

Graham Greene

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Howard Dean

We know that no one person can succeed unless everybody else succeeds.

Dave Magadan

Come on, man, I'm not that stupid. Obviously (Hernandez) has proven how dumb he is on national TV.

Hunter S. Thompson

There is nothing Modern about doing dumb things for dumb reasons.