Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Harkaway

The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.

George Ishaq

They are waiting to get more of our people. The way they attacked, with no care for humanity, is appalling and must not be left without a fight.

Jacki Weaver

I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.

Joanna Lumley

I've had my run-ins with department stores, like Harrods, which stopped selling fur coats, but I found some there with fur trim, which is just as disgusting. Foie gras production is appalling - there's no excuse for selling it.

Medea Benjamin

It's appalling that the US military killed these women's families and then the US government rejects their visas on the grounds that they have no family to return to in Iraq. These women have no desire to stay in the United States. We had a very hard time convincing them to come, but we told them how important it would be for their stories to be heard by Americans.

John Kirkwood

It's appalling that the tobacco industry is not held responsible for the deadly products it continues to market and sell to young people. Clearly, the industry is trying to get young people hooked on smoking and nothing is being done to limit this targeted marketing. Cigarettes, even in assorted candy flavors, cause lung cancer and lung disease and should be banned for the sake of our children.

Daniel Becker

It's appalling that Nissan, V.W. and Hyundai are accelerating in reverse.

Michael Gorman

It's appalling -- it's really astounding. Only 31 percent of college graduates can read a complex book and extrapolate from it. That's not saying much for the remainder.

Jasmine Guinness

It's appalling how much money raised at some charity events gets wasted on paying personnel and admin staff.

Josh Keaton

I've played a lot of younger, more coming-of-age roles as well as roles that aren't such an imposing physical presence.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

William Shatner

Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?

Kevin Whately

I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it.

Jonathan Raban

Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but where you were, with motion itself as the only object.

Niklaus Wirth

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

Kenny Smith

Among the multitudes will be found many who cannot discriminate between what is merely wanted and what is needed, what is necessary for bare subsistence and what is indispensable for the sake of the freedom and clarity of one's higher powers.

Martin Buber

One need ask only 'What for? What am I to unify my being for?' The reply is: Not for my own sake.

Pope John Paul II

Freedom exists for the sake of love.

Peter Hammill

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

Pierce Brosnan

I'm Irish, for gods sake. I'm a romantic.