Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Petty

We're rather fond of it and we think you'll like it, too.

Michael Ward

It was as though Mollie had leapt out of the box. It was a romantic gesture for a romantic lady who will always be remembered fondly and with great admiration.

Teresa Heinz

My only self-confidence and satisfaction comes from the people that I do meet; I have fondness for people. I mean, I like to hug. And I also like to be hugged.

Susanna Kearsley

Readers in general are not fond of dialect, and I don't blame them. I've read books myself that I've had to put down because sounding out every speech gave me a headache.

Horace

Do you hear, or does some fond illusion mock me?

Yotam Ottolenghi

Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.

Jasika Nicole

I understand the nostalgia of having paper to feel and smell when you read it, but I would rather have fond memories of newspapers that have become obsolete than fond memories of beautiful forests that have become obsolete.

Sarah Monette

I have mild albinism, which means I am very sensitive to light, so the animal representation of my spirit would have to be a mole. I am particularly fond of that most Lovecraftian of mammals, the star-nosed mole, and tend to choose it for online icons and avatars.

Stephanie Mills

Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.

Betty Friedan

I love newspapers. I've worked on newspapers, all my life. I've always loved it.

Bob Schieffer

Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.

Scott Peters

So you have read the newspapers and you still want to do this?

Pete Boone

You read newspapers and you read that people think you can't win at Ole Miss. You can.

Carl Sandburg

Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.

Brenda Fassie

You know, the more I appear on newspapers, the more famous I become.

Richard Gilhooly

There's nothing surprising in this when you see day after day after day after day, 3,000, 5,000, 10,000 layoffs, ... So if anyone's shocked by this, they haven't been reading the newspapers for the past three months.

Gary Pruitt

The conventional wisdom is that newspapers are dead. That's the view out there, but it couldn't be more wrong.

Thomas Jefferson

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper.

Charlie Chaplin

If anybody else says it's like old times, I'll jump out the window.

Simone Signoret

Nostalgia is not what it used to be (La nostalgie n'est plus ce qu'elle etait)

James Wolcott

Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.

Demetri Martin

I remember when I used to be really into nostalgia.

Andrei Codrescu

Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.

Sherman Alexie

Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.

Simone Signoret

Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

Mignon McLaughlin

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had

Michael Hagan

Let's get on with the nostalgia at the end of the season.

Edwin Land

Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.

Jane Fonda

The institution of marriage is obsolete

Alfie Kohn

In education, parody is obsolete.

Theodor Adorno

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

Mario Andretti

The banked oval tracks are obsolete tracks for Indy cars.

Vance Havner

The Word of God is either absolute or obsolete.

Vladimir Nabokov

All religions are based on obsolete terminology.

Vladimir Nabokov

The future is but the obsolete in reverse.

David Ricardo

Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.

Bertrand Russell

The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.

Charlie Munger

If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation.

Bill Watterson

I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.

Byron Katie

Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.

Randi Miller

We're still going to be a politically independent paper. We're still going to be the paper for Boulder's young adults and serve that readership with our reporting and advertising.

Robert Martin

This paper doesn't clinch it. I feel strongly that people are glossing over the problems with this interpretation,

Irma Cabriales

There may be more; you never know. There are a lot of immigrants, those with papers and those without, here on the Treasure Coast.

Lewis Wade

They're not going to tell. They'd rather retaliate.

Dryden Mitchell

It was so unorganized. ... It just got silly. We would have rather sat on that record for a year and let Geffen put it out.

Nick Cave

Aw, look, I don't know. I think I'd rather him do that than me.

James Griffin

As long as it is like it is and they tell me not to go back I'm here. I'd rather be up here anyway.

Cade Bernsen

As I understand it, it's going to be done rather quickly.

Bill White

Rather than risk confrontation with (police), we are going to stay at the Capitol.

W. C. Fields

On the whole I would rather be in Philadelphia.

A.J. Burnett

Sooner rather than later, we're going to see a new team on top there.

Kevin Pietersen

Rather him than me in one of those things,

Alan Bennett

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.

Chris Colfer

I love bookstores. I love the energy in a bookstore and the smell of the paper.

Edward Gibbon

The Gauls derided the hairy and gigantic savages of the North; their rustic manners, dissonant joy, voracious appetite, and their horrid appearance, equally disgusting to the sight and to the smell.

Deborah Harkness

I know,I can smell it, too,

Billy Wilder

It was a hot afternoon and I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along the street. How can I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?

Billy Wilder

If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?

Bill Walton

I could smell colors, I could feel sounds.

Buddy Guy

I'm gonna play something so funky you can smell it

Cary Grant

We should all just smell well and enjoy ourselves more.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

Dean Acheson

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

David Hume

Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.

Audrey Tautou

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

Dee Hock

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.

Carlos Castaneda

You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

Charlotte Lamb

I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!

Charles Baudelaire

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

Charlie Kaufman

Every day of your life, you have information that enters your head, and that information informs your understanding of things, or shifts it, or changes it, or deepens it, or confuses you. Every day, every moment of every day - it's like this thing that happens.