Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Rick James

I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground... Kind of sort of.

Virchand Gandhi

All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.

Woody Allen

Well, trouble's my middle name. Actually, my middle name is Marion, but I don't want you spreading that around.

Woody Allen

There's something about my films; they're informed by my sensibility. I have the same preoccupations, the same interests... there's just something in the nuance, and so you always know it's a film of mine whether I sign my name to it or not.

William Whewell

We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.]

William Wordsworth

Me this uncharted freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires, My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same.

William Shenstone

I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.

William Shatner

My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!

Sarah Silverman

I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much.

William Blake

Every tear from every eyeBecomes a babe in eternity.

Kristen Bell

I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me.

Miguel de Unamuno

The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.

Publilius Syrus

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

Leigh Hunt

Some tears belong to us because we are unfortunate; others, because we are humane; many, because we are mortal. But most are caused by our being unwise. It is these last only that of necessity produce more.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

Margaret Atwood

The facts of this world seen clearly are seen through tears.

Pierre Jean de Beranger

Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living.

Samuel Johnson

Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.

Terence McKenna

Impressionism is simply twenty minutes into LSD.

Bill Wyman

Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot of exposure on something like this.

Donald Miller

I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime.

David Foster Wallace

I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity

Sienna Miller

I lived my twenties in a very public manner and if anyone's twenties are documented it's not always going to be pretty.

Matt LeBlanc

I started going gray in my early twenties.

Lorrie Moore

We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things.

Christine Feehan

I killed Freddie the vamp like twenty times, but he wouldn't die. --Natalya Shonski