Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Burnett

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.

Janis Joplin

This whole thing that's happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn't yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas, that was to be true to myself, to be the person that I...that was on inside of me and not play games...

Bill Hicks

I was just down in Dallas, Texas...the Assassination Museum...it's really accurate, you know, 'cause Oswald's not in it.

Duane Chapman

I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car.

Angie Harmon

And, Bruce and I are pretty close as well. We're both from Texas and we both understand each other. When I'm having trouble with a scene, I'll just go over to him and be like, "I have no idea what's happening here. What are we doing?" He's just been such a wonderful sounding board and, obviously, he's a tremendously talented actor.

Steven Hall

Texas has no system in place, and what you have is chaos.

Thomas Haden Church

I don't want my hair to be ridiculous. But in Texas I do wear a hat a lot, so I probably have hat-head more than I'm aware of.

Michael Caine

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.

Lyle Lovett

That's right, you're not from Texas. But Texas wants you anyways.

Archibald MacLeish

What you really have to know is one: yourself. And the only way you can know that one is in the mirror of the others. And the only way you can see into the mirror of the others is by love or its opposite—by profound emotion. Certainly not by curiosity—by dancing around asking, looking, making notes. You have to live relationships to know.

Alanis Morissette

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

Daniel Handler

We need things, and the opposite of them, and we are so rarely completely comfortable.

Dan Barker

Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be true, and faith has no limits at all. A Great Escape into faith is no retreat to safety. It is nothing less than surrender.

Edmund Burke

Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use.

Eckhart Tolle

Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.

Ronald Reagan

Form and Substance are opposite ends of the same coin.

Shakti Gawain

Mind and intuition are at opposite ends of the same continuum and our goal is to strike a healthy balance between the two.

Shakti Gawain

Freedom and relationship are polar opposites - they both exist on the same continuum. You DO want a relationship - and you DO want freedom - what you really want is BALANCE, you want wholeness.

William Shakespeare

First Witch He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought.

Mick Jagger

I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.

Marla Miller

I'm speechless - it's better than we had hoped.

Gene Fowler

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.

Robin Quivers

We shouldn't have free speech.

Wendell Berry

We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.

Joseph Addison

I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.

James Russell Lowell

In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.