Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Schopenhauer

Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control

Michel Faber

I think throughout the 20th century, for some reason, serious writers increasingly had contempt for the average reader. You can really see this in the letters of such people as Joyce and Virginia Woolf.

Voltaire

Everything can be borne except contempt.

Robert Bennett

The contempt has been lifted, and I am delighted that Judy can go forward with her great reporting.

Joseph Addison

Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great.

Bernard Berenson

All we really want is otherness, tossing from side to side, and greeting every toss with shouts of welcome, and of contempt for the previous toss

John Boles

It's complicated, because a lot of people from New Orleans had contempt for Houston because it's so modern and spiffy, but the jobs are here.

Leonard Levine

No matter how much hatred and contempt you have for what that man did in the '70s and '80s, it's about what happened in this case. It's about the law. Without the law we have nothing. It's what our country was founded on.

Martin Freeman

I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with each other now.

Bruce Larner

Joe's a good player, but he's only a sophomore. His father used to teach at Okemos, so I had a feeling he'd have a big game for us.

Randy Price

He was a father figure to all of us.

John Cornyn

He did commiserate with me a little bit, ... I hope that he will be able to give the United States Supreme Court's ruling some coherence, because frankly they are way out of step with what the founding fathers intended.

Keith Gilbertson

He comes from lineage of tough people. His grandfather was a great football player at Idaho. His father was a great player at Boise State. He comes by this naturally. He's the next generation of tough guys.

Joan Robinson

He is still the same manipulative person who has used the system, and it dishonors the life of my father and the life of Jackie Pigott.

Galeazzo Ciano

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Steve Wallace

Her father managed the officers' mess and Gloria was the cashier.

Yiddish Proverb

Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble

Michael Brown

His whole life was his family. It's a tragic situation for everyone involved. These two young children, they have no mother, no father and no grandma.

Matthew Morrison

I actually grew up break-dancing. When you break-dance you listen to hip-hop and rap, so I've been listening to that music since I was a kid.

Bill Sharpe

Guys like Greg and Rusty grew up as watermen, because their dad's one, too. And being a hot surfer was secondary to being a true waterman.

Bob DiBiasio

Hal was a real journalist. He grew up in a time when newspapers were kings and always kept the sense that the printed word was magic.

Quinton Aaron

I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and being a fan of what I'd seen portrayed in the movies, and I always wanted to do that one day.

Laura Vandervoort

I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.

Sean Maguire

For me, personally, I grew up watching American heroes and American movies and TV.

Stefan Edberg

I think that over the years people grew to understand what I stood for. They knew what type of player I was. I think they respected me for that.

Sue Hershey

We talked a lot about how that region grew and how students were recruited. We need to be ready to train a workforce for these jobs.

Mirek Porosa

When he settled down, his volleyball level just grew tremendously.

Pete Carroll

I'm not worried about it. People have opinions and can think anything they want,

Harold Brodkey

I have thousands of opinions still, but that is down from millions, and as always, I know nothing.

Stephen Colbert

The show is about me in that when you give opinions, you're saying something about yourself,

Tao Lin

I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.

Ralph Bellamy

Solemnity in politicians is not only tiresome but may even mask those twin sins - self-righteousness and intolerance - for the opinions of others. If I couldn't laugh, I couldn't live, especially in politics.

John Roberts

I don't think you can read those opinions and say that these are the opinions of an ideologue,

Clint Hurdle

My opinions, I'll keep to myself. The replay speaks for itself. We'll see how it unfolds.

Blair Jones

The American people have the right to protest, and the president welcomes the opinions of all Americans.

Anita Borg

It doesn't help to just get women's opinions and then turn them over to an all-white-male engineering team.

Richard M. Nixon

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

Virginia Woolf

Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.

Salman Rushdie

A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.

Salman Rushdie

Free speech is life itself.

Robert Southey

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.

Robert Orben

Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it.

Robert Louis Stevenson

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Roland Barthes

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

Robin Quivers

We shouldn't have free speech.