Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristophanes

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Charles Bukowski

there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's asleep. I say, I know that you're there, so don't be sad. then I put him back, but he's singing a little in there, I haven't quite let him die and we sleep together like that with our secret pact and it's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't weep, do you?

Dean Martin

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

Daniel Kahneman

I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion.

D. H. Lawrence

And still I look for the men who will dare to be roses of England wild roses of England men who are wild roses of England with metal thorns, beware! but still more brave and still more rare the courage of rosiness in a cabbage world fragrance of roses in a stale stink of lies rose-leaves to bewilder the clever fools and rose-briars to strangle the machine.

Confucius

Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.

Confucius

Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.

Confucius

Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.

Confucius

It is better to play than do nothing.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world.

Alain de Botton

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

Derrick Rose

I don't want to be in my meetings all sore or be at my son's graduation all sore just because of something I did in the past. (I'm) just learning and being smart.

Bob Dylan

Every writer at the New Yorker is smarter than me.

E. B. White

If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.

Adam Carolla

People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'

Doug Liman

At the end of the day, I like the spy genre, as opposed to the action movie genre, because spies are smart. The successful spies are the smarter spies.

Doug Ose

I mean people up here aren't stupid, I'm lower gene pool and I kind of sit in amazement at watching some of them because they are pretty damn smart.

Donald Trump

I love trade. I'm a free trader, 100 percent. But we [the USA] need smart people making the deals, and we don't have smart people making the deals.

Simone de Beauvoir

Buying is a profound pleasure.

Sophie Kinsella

I am not a label snob and have learned that the thrill of shopping can be just as great, if not more so, when you find a bargain.

Swoosie Kurtz

When [we]were first married, [Wade] begged me to be practical...thank God I lived by my credo: 'Veni, vidi, visa - I came, I saw, I charged it.

Jean Kerr

I was always the last woman on the last down elevator as the store was closing.

William Leach

I think they've been shopping this around for a while,

GG Allin

I've sold my records outta shopping carts on the street.

Zoe Lister-Jones

As consumers, we can buy organic and non-GMO verified products, so look out for those labels when shopping!

Lacey Chabert

I like shopping, and I like to drive.