Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. O. Wilson

Kids will get home and nag their parents to death about getting a smoke detector,

Robert Kramer

Gross abusers of e-mail risk exposure to public ridicule as well as the economic death penalty.

George Sewell

The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.

Thomas Malory

Through this same man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain.

Myles Munroe

Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.

Lauren Bacall

I was this kid, and I was scared to death of all these pros around me... My head would shake, and my hands would shake, and I discovered if I kept my head down and looked up, my head would not shake, so I started to do that when I could, when it was appropriate in a scene.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think that people would like to, at all times, reject death and disease with technology.

Neal Katyal

Here, the president seeks not merely to detain temporarily but to dispense life imprisonment and death through a judicial system of his own design.

Matt Frewer

I think the idea is when you're on your death bed to say you did a lot of different, interesting things, not just that you have a more expensive lining in your coffin.

Zach Galifianakis

Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.

Rick Riordan

A tinkerer,” snapped Pasiphaë. “Even worse. I knew Daedalus. His inventions brought me nothing but trouble.” Leo blinked. “Daedalus…like, the Daedalus? Well, then, you should know all about us tinkerers. We’re more into fixing, building, occasionally sticking wads of oilcloth in the mouths of rude ladies—

Mallory Ortberg

Letting events end is not rude. Everything ends.

Cassandra Clare

She warned me about Mr. Herondale, though, said he’d likely be rude to me, and familiar. She said I could be rude right back, that nobody would mind.” “Someone ought to be rude to him. He’s rude enough to everyone else.

Muriel Spark

Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.

Neal A. Maxwell

Love, patience, and meekness can be just as contagious as rudeness and crudeness.

Lisa Kleypas

Does he behave in rude or improper ways?" "He's a Bowman. We don't know any better.

Lewis Carroll

Five o'clock tea" is a phrase our "rude forefathers," even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completelyis it a thing of to-day; and yet, so rapid is the March of the Mind, it has already risen into a national institution, and rivals, in its universal application to all ranks and ages, and as a specific for "all the ills that flesh is heir to," the glorious Magna Charta.

Jimmy Fallon

A new poll found that almost 70 percent of voters say that whoever our next president is, they must have political experience. You know, because it would be rude to say 'anyone but Donald Trump.'

William Maxwell

It was lovely when you found students who responded to things you were enthusiastic about.

Sara Teasdale

look for a lovely thing and you will find it, it is not far, it never will be far

Walter de La Mare

Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour

Virginia Woolf

After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold.

Robert Graves

As you are woman, so be lovely: As you are lovely, so be various, Merciful as constant, constant as various, So be mine, as I yours for ever.

L. Frank Baum

One can be ugly in looks, but lovely in disposition.

Ted Chiang

Physics admits of a lovely unification, not just at the level of fundamental forces, but when considering its extent and implications. Classifications like "optics" or "thermodynamics" are just straitjackets, preventing physicists from seeing countless intersections.

Neil Patrick Harris

This next presenter is so lovely you could eat her up with a spoon

Taylor Swift

Darling I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream.