Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cindy Sherman

I wonder how it is that I’m fooling so many people, I’m doing one of the most stupid things in the world…and people seem to be falling for it.

Chuck Palahniuk

Even if you tell yourself "Today I'm going to drink coffee the wrong way ... from a dirty boot." Even that would be right, because you chose to drink coffee from that boot. Because you can do nothing wrong. You are always right. Even when you say, "I'm such an idiot, I'm so wrong..." you're right. You're right about being wrong. You're right even when you're an idiot. No matter how stupid your idea, you're doomed to be right because it's yours.

Chuck Palahniuk

You don’t care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the doctor if I get sick, and yes I am stupid and bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility.

Alfred de Vigny

I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of my subject is always greater than the interest or the understanding of my auditors. You see, there is one very good thing about mankind; the mediocre masses make very few demands of the mediocrities of a higher order, submitting stupidly and cheerfully to their guidance

Alfie Kohn

Whoever said there's no such thing as a stupid question never looked carefully at a standardized test.

Amy Sedaris

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

Amy Tan

Those who don't heed the warnings don't live to admit they were stupid not to do so.

Amiri Baraka

I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with - ... namely America... Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism and all those great things.

Andy Samberg

I like things that are immature and offbeat and bizarre. Random jokes. Weird stuff. And stupid. Stupid is the highest compliment a person can pay to me.

Barry Switzer

The interceptions and two fumbles? Those just happened at the wrong time.

Aldous Huxley

Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east...

E. O. Wilson

The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.

Claudia Rankine

I love revising things, because you see how you can get the language to get closer to intention. You know there are three ways to say X thing, but one will say it better than the other two. And in saying it better, it gets you closer to something.

Doc Hastings

In the over two centuries since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, millions of Americans have bravely served our nation in uniform so that all generations can continue to enjoy those same liberties.

Diogenes

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

D. H. Lawrence

Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.

David Lloyd George

One cannot cross an abyss in two jumps.

Daniel Yergin

The bulk of extra supplies that could be put into the market come from two places. One, they come from other Persian Gulf suppliers, of which Saudi Arabia is at the top of the list.

Bob Storman

Now he can mobilize the 'Z Team' to support other candidates.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

We [Libyans] support the Palestinian resistance, and all the world supports this. We support their just cause, but we are against terrorism.

Mikhail Gorbachev

I support freedom and I support a free market economy, but it should be a socially oriented market economy. I support globalization, but it should be globalization with a human face.

Mithun Chakraborty

It's no use just by shouting out that it is bad or it's good. If someone feels bad about something, they should go and support the reins themselves.

Mitt Romney

I support the work of the NRA, but disagree sometimes.

Publilius Syrus

What a tragedy is help where it harms what it supports!

Leonardo da Vinci

Lust is the cause of generation Appetite is the support of life Fear or timidity is the prolongation of life, and Fraud the preservation of its instruments.

Learned Hand

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes the scripture.

Lauren Weisberger

Leigh did what any sane female faced with such an e-mail would do: deleted it to resist the temptation of replying, cleared her trash to resist the temptation of recalling it, and then called tech support to restore all her recently deleted e-mails. (Chasing Harry Winston)