Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malcolm Muggeridge

Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell.

John Cheever

Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay inside.

Octavia Butler

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

Ovid

Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]

Leonardo da Vinci

Savage is he who saves himself.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers.

George Bernard Shaw

The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

David Gemmell

Do not expect help.' 'One should always hope.' 'Then hope for a handsome savage with kindly ways.

Sandra Bullock

I've pretty much kicked over every stone. And there's nothing in me that says, "I must create this particular thing."

Tyra Banks

I've always seen modeling as a stepping stone.

Walter Winchell

He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.

Louis MacNeice

Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.

Eric Kripke

When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.

Keith Richards

The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.

Muddy Waters

I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.

Elizabeth I

The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.

Lenny Bruce

If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.