Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Barbara Deming

After the revolution, surely the only good reason for institutions that could still be called prisons - because they take people and place them under restraint - is this reason: wanting to keep people from harming others.

Henry David Thoreau

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Jared Diamond

Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.

Vincent Bugliosi

The votes of 60,000 Floridians were not counted. The Court threw out all 60,00 votes. And that's what the newspapers around the country are counting now.

Michael Chabon

It's good to have it over with. I worked on it a long time, and I didn't know what people were going to think of it. Would people like it? Would they buy it? So far it's been doing pretty well.

Joan D. Vinge

I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant.

Rose Kennedy

It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please.

Mark Twain

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Christine Clifford

My dogs are very special to me. I would not have come to Haddon Township if I had known that.

Mark Everett

No dogs have been impounded because no dogs have been positively identified as being involved with that particular incident.

Darek Farmer

I love dogs and little kids innocent beings.

Jill Bell

All you can hear up there are the dogs barking.

Ernie Accorsi

There has been no evolution of the quarterback,

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Don Bowers

The worse the hurricane does to us, the higher the prices are going to go.

Lysle Brinker

This is a tax story. What we don't know is how long the higher tax rate will be sustained going forward.

Rich Olson

That took the wind out of our sails. It just made the hill a lot higher to climb.

Cheng Chin

At the moment, I don't see how this can be done at much higher temperatures.

Adam Sieminski

We should have an overall higher level of distillate product - This should give the industry a breather.

Adam Sieminski

We should have an overall higher level of distillate product -- This should give the industry a breather.

Baruch Spinoza

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.

Jane Campion

I fell in love again (laughs).

Catherine O'Hara

I'm afraid to laugh out loud, because there's so much information.

Carrot Top

In movies, you don't get reactions: Live, when you do a joke, you know in a second whether it's good or bad. But in a movie, since no one is allowed to laugh or do anything, when you're done with a scene, you're left asking, 'Was that funny?'

Dean Koontz

If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.

Craig Ferguson

I'm not aware of having a creepy laugh, but apparently I do.

Elizabeth Scott

Then I heard someone laugh. I wished I didn't know whose laugh it was, but I knew Will's laugh just like I knew he had a small scar right above his left elbow. You couldn't be reluctantly lust-ridden for someone without noticing stuff about them.

Adam McKay

It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.

Lao Tzu

As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Edward Fitzgerald

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Baltasar Gracian

At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing.

O. Singh

I am still the man of the series, and you still remember it.

Mark Twain

But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

Stanley Asumnu

I faked my man and got around him. There was another man standing there but I just kind of went over him.

Bible Bible

If a man will not work, he shall not eat.

Joseph Addison

I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species

Dave Roberts

I respect him as a man and as a manager.

Eugene White

Every day we wait puts our students at a disadvantage.

Mack Strong

He comes out to compete. He comes out and puts up MVP numbers.

Mike Jacobs

It was a big boost. When you start off with three runs, it puts them on the defensive.

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Micah Rasmussen

We're just going to let the governor's statement stand.

Mike Huckabee

If the state surplus is used in part or in whole for this, it will have been used for as valid a need as we've ever had,

Gary Fischer

If they make the state meet, it could be fun.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Elaine Chao

it is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.