Famous Quotes & Sayings

W. Somerset Maugham

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

Nathan Fillion

Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.

Pearl S. Buck

To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her.

Jon Stewart

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.

Mahatma Gandhi

If I did not have a sense of humor, I would have long ago killed myself.

John Cage

The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away.

Mahatma Gandhi

If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.

Richelle Mead

You made your own jean shorts...with a butter knife?

Rick Riordan

But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.

Vera Farmiga

Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.

Robin Hobb

One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.

William Blake

The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.

Louise Brooks

I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.

Kajol

I can understand going for Botox at 45-50, when you want to keep things in place. But I don't understand 25 year olds going for Botox or under the knife. You don't require it. Your skin is fresh, young. Why would you do that to yourself?

Mikhail Bulgakov

Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning strikes, as a Finnish knife strikes! She, by the way, insisted afterwards that it wasn’t so, that we had, of course, loved each other for a long, long time, without knowing each other, never having seen each other…

Patrick Ness

A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.

Richard D. James

A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.

Rob Sheffield

'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world.

Richard Dawkins

Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.

Richard Wright

Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world, I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.

Richelle Mead

I'll find you. There is no place in this world you can hide from me. I'm watching. Love, Dimitri

Richelle Mead

This was the kind of dress that changed the world. The kind of dress that started religions.

Russell Brand

The only Revolution that can really change the world is the one in your own consciousness, and mine has already begun.

Ronda Rousey

I'm the most dangerous unarmed women in the world, I've prepared my entire life to be that way.

Ronda Rousey

It's your purpose to leave the world better than how you found it.