Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Capone

Vote early and vote often.

Donald Barthelme

HENRY: Now it is necessary to court her, and win her, and put on this clean dressing gown, and cut my various nails, and drink something that will kill the millions of germs in my mouth, and say something flattering, and be witty and bonny, and hale and kinky, all just to ease this wrinkle in the groin. It seems a high price.

Tom Stoppard

The days of the digital watch are numbered.

Tom Stoppard

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

Tina Fey

Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.

Marilyn vos Savant

Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.

Lisa Kudrow

I don't even know if it's possible, but if it were, I'd like to make those kinds of old movies where the women were articulate and intelligent and flawed and witty.

Oscar Wilde

If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die without realizing how far people can go in the way of crumminess. When the grave lies open before us, let’s not try to be witty, but on the other hand, let’s not forget, but make it our business to record the worst of the human viciousness we’ve seen without changing one word. When that’s done, we can curl up our toes and sink into the pit. That’s work enough for a lifetime.

Daniel Johns

So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis.

Sinead O'Connor

I was getting a lot of pressure from people in show business about my being overweight because of medication, I was on 200 mg of amitriptiline. When I said this to my doctor, for some reason she took me completely off medication and she didn't really supervise properly.

Mariel Hemingway

There's no doctor in a white coat that's going to save you, or a system or a pill - it's always going to be you and the choices that you make.

Sherry Stringfield

I'm a terrible patient, and I find that doctors can be very condescending.

Roberta Flack

I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight.

Winston Churchill

The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.

Vickie Simmons

Immediately, when you think of hospital, you think of doctors and nurses. But our hospital is a big place and there are lots of jobs.

Carroll Dawson

I'm optimistic about it because I just know how tough he is, and from what the doctors say, he's still got some miles left in that knee.

Mordecai Richler

I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence.

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Dolly Parton

My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.

Chuck Close

There are things about signing on to a process over the long term that protect you from the buffeting winds of change.

Ami Ayalon

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

William C. Bryant

And at my silent window-sill The jessamine peeps in.

Ogden Nash

Wind is caused by the trees waving their branches.

Paul Wick

It's like having the wind at your back.

John Greenleaf Whittier

He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise, The inward monitor obeys. And with the boldness that confuses fear Takes in the crowded sail, and lets his conscience steer.

Kim Stanley Robinson

A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind.