Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.

Charles de Lint

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

Byron Katie

If you want a little fear and terror because your life is dull, get a future. Terrifying!

Bruno Schulz

One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness.

Earl Weaver

Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often.

Barbra Streisand

A large part of me is pure nebbish - plain, dull, uninteresting. There's a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.

William Shakespeare

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Bonita Favre

There was never, ever a dull moment around here, ... For a while there at the emergency room, they'd go, 'I know. It's a Favre again.'

Joseph Conrad

It is respectable to have illusions - and safe - and profitable, and dull

Tom Rosenstiel

It's the illusion of more information, but it's actually a lot of repetition.

Elie Wiesel

In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.

Elbert Hubbard

Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.

Elbert Hubbard

Time is an illusion-to orators.

Hillary Clinton

There is nothing fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that.

Chuck Jones

Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life

Daniel Dennett

Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.

David Copperfield

I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.

T. S. Eliot

Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.

Hillary Clinton

There is nothing fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that.

David Sanborn

But I never had any illusions at that time that it was going to be how I was going to make a living. I thought, well, I'll make a solo record, and it'll be fun.

Mike Bennett

I would like to see someone come in second that tells it like it is. I don't have any illusions that he'll come in first, but I do think it might be nice.

Brian Goldberg

Junior has no illusions that he's 25, but he'll go at it and work hard. If everything is working out, he'll play.

Jorge Amado

I'm under no illusions about the importance of my work. But if it has any worth, it is that it truly reflects the Brazilian people.

Charles Caleb Colton

They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

Alan Guth

It's actually safe to create a universe in your basement.

Alan Greenspan

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Al Jardine

It's a coup by the GOP to grab the governorship to California to make this place a safe haven for George W. Bush in 2004. It's incredible when you think about it. The recall cost the state $100 million

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The driver on the highway is safe not when He reads the signs, but when He obeys them.

Chris Coleman

We can't feel safe because we are not safe. (on Fulham, 2004-5 season)

Edmond de Goncourt

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Bear Grylls

I'm probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you've ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent.

Derek Jacobi

It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!