Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chinua Achebe

A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.

Ellen Anderson

We are preparing for fire, flooding and pandemic disease right now. We hope that none of it happens, but we are planning so when it does we are ready.

Cheryl Mendelson

We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It's the disease of the time.

William Shakespeare

Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.

Carl Jung

The gods have become our diseases.

David Wilson

We're starting to see young people with old people diseases. These diseases include hardening of the arteries, heart attacks, and diabetes.

Benjamin Franklin

A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion.

Avicenna

There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.

Biz Stone

We can figure it out, it's not like we all have a disease.

China Machado

Originally a stylist took terrible dresses and did everything she could to make them wonderful. Now, you create an image. It's much more specialized.

Eddie Izzard

I wear whatever I want whenever I want. I don't call it drag; I don't even call it cross-dressing. It's just wearing a dress.

Katie Couric

When you thought about getting married, was there a particular dress you had in mind?

Florence Paterno

We want people to dress up like a star. But, if they don't want to, come casual.

Charles Lamb

No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.

William Shakespeare

So all my best is dressing old words new.

Marie Osmond

I am happy. I have a wonderful marriage. I was in a not-great second marriage for 20 years, then I fell in love with Steve, my first husband, again, and we remarried. I wore the dress from our first wedding in 1982 - it was tight, but I could get into it.

Nellie McKay

I'd love to give my music to someone who really likes to wow the crowd. I feel like half the time I just want to hide in the dressing room!

Scarlett Johansson

Woody would be very happy if I wore the kind of dress I wore in the movie, white and linen, but I don't think that would go down very well in the Golden Globes.

Charles Dickens

But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.

Charles Dickens

I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart

Charles Dickens

He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.

Charles Dickens

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!

Charles Caleb Colton

Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it; and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions

Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction to none of them, and yet he is the only despot who can never die, while any of his subjects live.

Charles Caleb Colton

We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon our own case we are both judge, jury, and executioner, and where sophistry cannot overcome the first, or flattery the second, self-love is always ready to defeat the sentence by bribing the third.

Charles Caleb Colton

Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good; if meagre, muddy, vapid and sour, both are fit only to engender colic and wind; but if rich, generous and sparkling, they communicate a genial glow to the spirits, improve the taste, and expand the heart.

Charles Schumer

We want to see how much information is forthcoming between now and the 7th.

David Icke

I don't edit information, I follow it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Some information I just keep to myself.

Dee Hock

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

Mayor Barse

We are always seeking new and better information.

Richard Davidson

We've already had some very worrying points of information which could have seen the start of the correction.

Alexander Kashlinsky

Where they lived, how big they were, how much light they emitted, whether they even existed, we weren't sure. What we've done, we think, is obtain the first information about these stars.

Bill Nye

That's what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.

Cecily Strong

Theres so much more bad information than good information out there - everybodys got something to say and its usually wrong.

Chelsea Handler

This women/ killer was a testament to my theory that the crazier you are, the more calories you burn. That's why psychos are always so skinny.

Laura Wade

Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.

Elie Wiesel

In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.

Gary Stein

E-mail is the killer (application) for getting people to share information.

Tracy Conaway

At this point we don't feel like we have a killer that's out there randomly doing this, otherwise we would have alerted the public.

Dave Allison

Your best penalty killer is your goalie.

Anais Nin

Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.

Matt Mullenweg

You can't build everything and there is no more a killer feature. Everyone has a different killer feature.

Patricia Cornwell

If it turns out that something indisputably proved that this notorious killer was someone other than Walter Richard Sickert, I would be the first to offer congratulations and retract my accusations.

Charles Caleb Colton

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Charles Spurgeon

economy is half the battle of life; it is notso hard to earn money as to spend it well.

Alan Watts

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

Alan Paton

And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.

Alan Greenspan

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.

Alan Greenspan

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.

Alan Ayckbourn

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Charles de Lint

I'm pretty much fixated on certain themes. Family, but it's family of choice as much as family of blood. Individuality, yes, but not at the cost of others' happiness. Be true to your friends. Remembering to find some wonder and hope in the world. Basically it boils down to: treat people like you'd like them to treat you, leave the world a little better than it was when you got here, respect others and stand up for those who can't stand up for themselves.

Anderson Cooper

If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak that same language of loss.

John Oates

Well, because we're so different as people. And it's that difference that probably also makes it easy to stay together, because we don't get in each others way.

Connie Higgins

All others will receive non-partisan ballots, so they don't get to vote on partisan offices.

Luis Gutierrez

They may remove us, but there will be many others to follow,

Sathya Baba

The Yoga science is today being probed by physicists and others in Western countries.

Fernando Rospigliosi

They don't want a trial. That could implicate Fujimori and others in the government.

Steve Johnson

You don't feel superior until you tell others about it.

Phaedrus

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

Tracy Austin

It's about being with friends and raising money, ... To me, that's most important.

Martina McBride

Raising three girls, I think it's important to teach them to support other women.

Joe Andrew

This is big and this is important. This is not about raising money, it's about raising interest.

Bob Stern

I think Harman should be commended for raising so much in the district.

Victoria Moran

Vegetarian is like raising a kid Mennonite. It's difficult but not that different. Raising your kid vegan is like being Amish. A totally different world.

Ray Fleming

We're doing very well. But we can do better. We'll have to (do) better, because they keep raising the standards. This is one of those things where you can't rest on your laurels.

Mark Zandi

Implicitly, ... 'I can keep raising rates, and most homeowners won't suffer.'

Nancy Kress

Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's purpose in redemption is to make worshipers out of rebels.

Charlie Daniels

We can get rid of red tape.

Charlie Daniels

What this world needs is a few more Rednecks

Carl Hiaasen

I'm sort of fascinated by America's fascination with rednecks, the whole Duck Dynasty thing. Being a white guy from the South, I find it amazing that so many TV viewers are enchanted by beards, bad dentistry and moonshine accents.

Black Elk

So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth.

Bob Gunton

Put your trust in the Lord....your ass belongs to me. Welcome to Shawshank.

Anne Phillips

The red shoes were visually striking on the screen. They had Technicolor and, by golly, they were going to use it.

Charles Krauthammer

I'm a former Red Sox fan, now fully rehabilitated.

Bob Odenkirk

You shouldn't eat red meat, but you shouldn't make resolutions you can't keep.

Bernard Ebbers

I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.

Mark Olson

It's expensive. If you're selling $2 corn, you can't make it.

Jim Ford

It's about getting out there and selling it. I've been trying to go to all the parents' meetings.

Donald Young

This is the top team at Compaq selling at the highs,

Don Cooper

Selling more of what you sell has nothing to do with what you sell. It has everything to do with your prospect's wants, needs, fears, goals, values and priorities.

Nicholas James

This is not about selling more books. We just want her to be used more in the classroom.

Aimee Mann

I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.

Ben Schott

For me, photography only stopped because I was selling books.

John Dilling

The town shouldn't be selling a non-conforming lot.

Charles C. Mann

The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

Jack Kelly

Visitors may want (the vendors), but it's not all about the visitors.

Jeff Kinney

fish and visitors stink in 3 days.

Ernest Hemingway

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

Dennece Knight

Most of our visitors will be here to have fun.

Jeremy Paxman

Has there ever been a visitor to Ludlow who hasn't wished they lived there?

Mikhail Bulgakov

Foreign visitors . . . how impressed you all are with foreign visitors! But they come in many different varieties.

Henry Rollins

I feel like a visitor that got left behind by his ride.

Charles Caleb Colton

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

Alan Ayckbourn

If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.

Chris Abani

Your anatomy is a mystery that nobody bothers explaining to us. Even when we think we have mastered one woman's body, every body is different.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general-but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.

Edith Sitwell

Most women dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous reincarnation, or hope to be one in the next.

Edith Sitwell

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

Edith Sitwell

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.

Edith Wharton

Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

Earl Wilson

To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.