Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Mertz

kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.

Lucille Ball

When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes. You can't go on and on for years being miserable about a situation and not have it change you. You get so you can't stand yourself.

John Cleese

While you're being creative, nothing is wrong. There's no such thing as a mistake, and any drivel may lead to the breakthrough.

Luis Suarez

I'm paying for a mistake I made

John Brabender

[People] feel Washington doesn't understand their lives anymore, and they feel that even though Donald Trump might make a mistake with what he says from time to time, they see that as authenticity and maybe somebody who will truly pay attention to them, because they feel ignored.

John Boehner

But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've expressed it tonight: standing on principle, checking Washington's power and leading the drive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable government.

Enoch Powell

People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles.

Emmett Shear

The most common mistakes are showing people your product- don't show them your product, it's sort of like telling them bout a feature.

Emmett Shear

The other mistake I think people make is talking to who's available rather than talking to who they need to talk to.

Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Amy Weber

I have always brought home stray animals - everything from squirrels to wild rabbits to foxes and turtles.

Alex Pettyfer

I wish I had some interesting stories about living in L.A., but mostly I just do my work and then go home.

Alessandro Nivola

I live right under the Hollywood sign, so that every day when I drive home I'm reminded of why I'm here.

Aleksandar Hemon

I don't know the numbers, but roughly half of the people who came through Ellis Island returned home. They came here to make money, not to make history.

Aleksandar Hemon

I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.

Aleksandar Hemon

If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.

Aleksandar Hemon

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

Alfred Molina

When I get home after being away for work, my wife always stuffs the fridge with loads of what she calls 'nibbles' - all the great things you can eat straight from the fridge, like chunks of cheese, slices of ham, bowls of hummus.

Charles Bukowski

Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.

Charles Bukowski

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

When you are knitting socks and sweaters and scarves, you aren't just knitting. You are assigning a value to human effort. You are holding back time. You are preserving the simple unchanging act of handwork.

Michael Behe

The basic structure of proteins is quite simple: they are formed by hooking together in a chain discrete subunits called amino acids.

Maurice Saatchi

Simplicity is all. Simple logic, simple arguments, simple visual images. If you can't reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, there's something wrong with your argument. There's nothing long-winded about 'Liberté, égalité, fraternité'.

Max Euwe

Capablanca did not apply himself to opening theory (in which he never therefore achieved much), but delved deeply into the study of end-games and other simple positions which respond to technique rather than to imagination.

Max Lerner

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.

Maureen Forrester

I have been all over the world. I have met some wonderful people, lots of them very simple, whom nobody will ever hear about, but who have been fabulous to me.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

…It’s like a spiral: They keep making everything more basic so it will appeal to everyone. And gradually, everyone gets used to everything being basic, so we get less and less varied as people, more simple. So the corps make everything even simpler. And it goes on and on.