Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Corgan

It's about the girlfriend who left me last year. I tried to put all my anger in those words, even though I'm just as much to blame for the break-up. 'Soma' is based on the idea that a love relationship is almost the same as opium: it slowly puts you to sleep, it soothes you, and gives you the illusion of sureness and security. Very deceivable.

Anthony Jeselnik

My girlfriend makes me want to be a better person... so I can get a better girlfriend.

Dave Attell

I don't have a girlfriend but sometimes I like to pretend I do. I just stand in my apartment screaming No, that's not what I said!

Robert Harris

To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it’s ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.

Rick Riordan

Which meant his only assets were one whiny imprisoned goddess, one sort-of-girlfriend with a dagger, and Leo, who apparently thought he could defeat the armies of darkness with breath mints.

Tom Cullen

When I was 17, I had my first proper girlfriend, and on Valentine's Day, I painted a canvas of her, bought her a massage, put flowers on the stairs, and ran a bath.

Michel Gondry

I don't like vampire movies or zombie movies. I went to see 'I Am Legend' with an ex-girlfriend the other day, and I immediately realised it was a zombie movie! You know what I mean? There are certain rules, and those rules are things that you've seen many times.

Michael Rapaport

In any relationship that comes to an end, there's never just a baseline reason why. You say, 'Oh, I broke up with my girlfriend.' Someone says, 'Why?' You say, 'Well, you got three hours? And then maybe after I tell you my version, you've got to talk to her.

Jens Lehmann

I do not have a 24-year-old girlfriend. I have another life altogether.

John Rice

Thank you for giving us back Lauren and Steve,

Babe Ruth

It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.

Augustine Birrell

It can never be wrong to give pleasure.

Ayn Rand

Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

Benito Mussolini

If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!

C. S. Lewis

One of the dangers of having a lot of money is that you may be quite satisfied with the kinds of happiness money can give and so fail to realize your need for God. If everything seems to come simply by signing checks, you may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.

Bryant H. McGill

The act of true giving is indistinguishable from receiving.

Bryant H. McGill

When you give others a new chance, a new chance is really being given to you.

Bryant H. McGill

The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.

Mick Jagger

I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.

Robin Quivers

We shouldn't have free speech.

Mark Twain

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

Mary MacLane

However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell.

Ovid

Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself.

Jimmy Wales

Free speech includes the right to not speak.

Bible Bible

And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

Henry Ward Beecher

None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.