Famous Quotes & Sayings

Probably the saddest thing you'll ever see is a mosquito sucking on a mummy. Forget it, little friend.

James Gray

The sad truth for American actors is that they really have no control whatsoever over the material that they get, or can do, particularly actresses. And if you're over 40 and you're an actress, forget it.

Jason Michaels

We had to forget about last night. Last night was last night.

Brian Laing

We weren't going to let one game make us forget we had won six a row. This was another big game and now this one is even bigger.

Martin Cleveland

We won it. We're the first. No one's going to forget that we were the ones to do it.

Donald Trump

Don't forget our vets. They have been forgotten.

Andy Goldsworthy

We often forget that we are nature...

Ann Brashares

The word friends doesn't seem to stretch big enough to describe how we feel about each other. We forget where one of us starts and the other one stops.

Albert Einstein

Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens.

Jon Cryer

I can't imagine Jon Cryer performing with the New York Philharmonic isn't one of the signs of apocalypse.

Steve Jackson

I don't know how old you are. I'm 64 myself, live in Kansas and I love Jon Stewart. Why? Because he's funny!

John Oliver

Most stand-ups, once they have done it, think of it as their default job. I'm pretty sure Jon Stewart still feels that way now. You are a stand-up first; other things come and go.

John Harper

Who do we want to take for U.S. history? Mrs. Jones requires a term paper and outside reading. Mrs. Smith you pretty much need a pulse and you'll get by,

Robert Brusca

It's like an old Jonathan Winters movie - 'The Russians aren't coming! The Russians aren't coming.' And they'll probably never be here.

T. S. Eliot

Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

Steve Erickson

To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.

Kevin Whately

I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it.

Niklaus Wirth

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

Shunryu Suzuki

We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves.

Lara Pulver

It didn't bother me in the slightest and I'm someone who's never done that sort of thing before on stage or screen. It was just a device for her; it wasn't nudity for nudity's sake.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Food should come from the place of its origin, and stay there. It shouldn't spend its time crisscrossing the globe for the sake of profit.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.

Clara Zetkin

We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class.

Terry Tamminen

It would be much stronger if it was a law.

Baruch Spinoza

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Brenda Strong

Balance for me now means seeing myself as a tree, being strong enough in my roots and trunk to not be a pushover, but being flexible enough in every circumstance not to break. I am continuing to expand, but not any faster than my roots can support me.

James Weldon Johnson

Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much.

Carl Sandburg

Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you came to life and you will again be silent long after you leave it, why not be a little silent now? Hush yourself, noisy little man. Time hushes all: the gong of time rang for you to come out of the hush and you were born. The gong of time will ring for you to go back to the same hush you came from. Winners and losers, the weak and the strong, those who say little and try to say it well, and those who babble and prattle their lives away, time hushes all.

C. S. Lewis

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

Cesar Chavez

We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to help himself...Now we have new faith. Through our strong will, our movement is changing these conditions...We shall be heard.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Saudi Arabia has stability. The social contract and the political contract between the king and the rulers and the royal family and the ruled people in Saudi Arabia is very strong and the bondage is so solid.