Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Rogers

We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it.

Marsha Mason

The idea of being a single woman in Hollywood is a very peculiar thing.

Luc de Clapiers

Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.

Louise Brown

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.

Greg Moore

This is a very peculiar year for flu.

Troy Fisher

It's unique because of that. It's a peculiar sound.

John Bankhead

It's very peculiar that he isn't ... We're investigating to find out why.

Joseph Hume

I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens.

Lewis H. Lapham

The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.

William Shenstone

A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.

Willa Cather

Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.

Plutarch

Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

Alfred North Whitehead

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

Tanith Lee

Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.

Oscar Wilde

The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

Chris Martin

The most extravagant thing I've ever bought is 95 tops all the same.

Imelda Marcos

Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PLAUDITS, n. Coins with which the populace pays those who tickle and devour it.

Michael McGuire

I like to collect experiences the way other people like to collect coins and stamps.

Tamsin Greig

I knew a homeless guy who'd give all the copper coins that people gave him to charity. So I think there's something that makes us want to give. For me, it's quite a selfish luxury: you feel enlivened, deepened and self-nurtured by generosity.

Jessica Aiken

The coins are obviously currency used for trade, but they have images of gods on them.

Kellan Lutz

I collect dice and I collect coins. I travel the world so I love dice, I always have dice on me. I collect magnets as well.

Matthew Arnold

You will be out of the lives of free people everywhere. Your face will be off the coins and with that, your arrogant, undue influence. Everywhere. ... Everywhere. .. Every. ...

Louis Menand

Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.

Emily Browning

I tend to over-analyse things. I'm not the type of person to flip a coin and let things happen.

Terry Pratchett

How do you get all those coins?" asked Mort. IN PAIRS.