Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rodney Harrison

When it comes down to it, ... it's just football. After all the circus, the antics and the sideshow, it's just football . . . just going out there and just knocking heads and just playing football.

Noam Chomsky

Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal - hardly inspiring - standards of political conduct.

Ben Shapiro

Conservatives are routinely pilloried on television. A&E likely greenlit 'Duck Dynasty' in the first place because executives believed Americans would laugh at the redneck antics of the self-described 'white trash' family.

Anthony Marra

For the uninitiated, 'Calvin and Hobbes' is a daily comic strip detailing the antics of an unruly six-year-old and his misanthropic stuffed tiger. The boy, whose vocabulary is packed with more 10-dollar words than a GRE flashcard set, is named after John Calvin, the Reformation-era theologian who preached the doctrine of predestination.

Mike Hanson

Some obscene antics were displayed to police through the window. Clearly it was confidence brought on by the ingestion of alcohol.

Larry Birns

Chavez's antics are a form of merriment for him. He's part buffoon, part visionary and part deadly effective strategist.

Steve-O

My first call is always to my dad. It's really rad. What had initially drove my dad and me apart - all my stunts and antics - has brought us together, closer than we've ever been. My dad's been a huge part of my team.

Mitch Meyer

He's one of the guys you look forward to hearing in the booth. You want to see what kind of antics he's going to pull that night.

Kid Rock

The personal antics have overshadowed the music. I never wanted that but I knew what I was getting into when I got into everything I got into.

Bruno Julliard

Unfortunately I think that the young people must feel they are held in contempt by the president and not heard by him.

Herbert Spencer

There is one principle that can keep a man in everlasting ignorance. That is contempt prior to investigation.

John Major

This looks very much at the moment as if this is the work of the IRA, showing their usual contempt for people's lives and property,

Julius Rosenberg

And there had to be a dagger thrust in the heart of the left to tell them that you are no longer gonna give five years for a Smith Act prosecution or one year for Contempt of Court, but we're gonna kill ya!

Ken Starr

seek judicial relief from these tactics, including contempt sanctions, as soon as practicable.

Robert Ingersoll

There are some of his sayings which show him to have been a devout Jew, others that he wished to destroy Judaism, others showing that he held all people except the Jews in contempt and that the wished to save no others, others showing that he wished

Edmund Burke

Contempt is not a thing to be despised.

Monica Crowley

Earth to Democrats: Displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is generally not a good political move.

Jules Feiffer

I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father

Benedict Cumberbatch

It's very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.

Bill Mauldin

'Peace' is when nobody's shooting. A 'just peace' is when our side gets what it wants.

Carlos Santana

The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.

Benjamin Franklin

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

Rosalind Wiseman

American kids are more cynical than any other groups of kids I've worked with.

Ben Wilcox

It's a fairly cynical effort on his part to distract the public from what's really the issue and that's the fact that the redistricting process in Florida is broken, and voters aren't being treated fairly.

Eugene Kelly

It was a shock, yes, and it really woke me up to how cynical the music industry was,

Anne Rice

So why must it wound him that the most despairing music is full of beauty? Why must it hurt him and make him cynical and sad and untrusting?

Lily Tomlin

No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.

Dr. Currier

We want to stay exactly as long as they need and not one day more.

Bob Poole

The other pieces I'm not exactly sure of.

Carter Jordan

The positives are we got four underclassmen out here to see exactly what we were talking about.

Gretchen Rubin

I read a lot, all the time, but often I read books for research, or because they're interesting to me in some way, even if they aren't exactly 'pleasurable.'

Friso Abbing

We have to find out what is exactly happening. We have all heard about this then we have to see if it is confirmed.

John Cunliffe

We have to find out exactly what's going on with the slide. Geologists say it's still moving slowly.

Friso Abbing

We have to find out exactly what is happening.

Bob Sullivan

We have a stove in there. It's exactly like the school she describes in her book. We twist hay to put in the stove like Laura did.

Francesco Buranelli

We have nearly 8km of exhibitions but even I can't tell you exactly how many pieces we have because even a small archway or a minor fresco is art.

Lindsay Bowen

We're getting better, for sure. It's just going to keep gradually coming. We have a lot of talent, a lot of potential. It's just a matter of putting it all together to get to that higher level.

Albert Camus

At each of those moments when he leaves the heights and gradually sinks toward the lairs of the gods, he is superior to his fate, ... He is stronger than his rock.

Al Madrigal

I don't really move onstage; all I do is just gradually hunch more and more and jut out at the people in the front row.

Alain Charette

Quarantines will be lifted gradually when they reach 30 days, just as if nothing happened.

Mark Woodward

This is something that's going to happen gradually over time.

Lillian Gordy Carter

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

John Russell

We haven't been able to stretch him out, so we're trying to gradually increase him.

Richard P. Feynman

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

David Briggs

Maybe today is a sign that we can gradually move modestly higher without getting crazy.

Mike Soule

At first, everyone was upset with (cover charges) and we had a little backlash. But now we hardly ever hear about it.

Rokia Traore

A melody without the right rhythm hardly exists.

Jan Egeland

They had hardly any roads at all and now they are gone.

Steve Anderson

There was hardly any rain in November, but Mother Nature likes to have things in balance, so she's making up for lost time.

Ingo Steuer

No questions please. We have hardly been able to train.

John Majdoch

These days, the witches are hardly old crones with twisted noses. They've got fishnets and you'd just want to jump in their cauldrons.

Scott McKenzie

I knew I didn't have the right name for a singer. Having a name that nobody could pronounce was hardly an asset.

Danny Murphy

Every day, you have to be ready for anything. But we've been doing it so long ago, there's hardly anything we haven't seen. We're set for any problem.

Russell Feingold

At such a time it would just seem hardly justified to schedule a pay raise for members of Congress.

Charles Caleb Colton

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

Alan Watts

There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.

Alan Watts

Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.

Alan Watts

The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which an event belongs.

Alan Watts

The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.

Alan Watts

Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.

Alan Watts

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

Alan Watts

There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins. Look at my watch, which tells the time; it goes round, and so the world repeats itself again and again.

Alan Watts

Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.

Cesare Pavese

The richness of life lies in the memories we have forgotten.

John Hueston

This is a simple case. It's not about accounting. It's about lies.

John Hueston

This is a simple case. It is not about accounting. It is about lies and choices.

Cesare Pavese

We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Susan Love

Breast cancer: Where we are and what lies ahead.

Proverbs

Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.

Paul O'Neill

I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now.

Imron Cotan

We will be telling lies if we said there has been a genocide.

Michael Jackson

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. The truth will win this marathon in court.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.

Catherynne M. Valente

I am the Walker and the Maze.

James Billington

They're somewhat easier, because they're self-contained. They don't have the same maze of menus and screens you have to navigate with software.

E. M. Forster

Those who search for truth are too conscious of the maze to be hard on others.

Imre Lakatos

It is not that we propose a theory and Nature may shout NO; rather, we propose a maze of theories, and Nature may shout INCONSISTENT.

Lord Chesterfield

Firmness of purpose is one of the best instruments of success.

Louie Gohmert

We've got the NSA getting logs of every call you make. The IRS is weaponized like Richard Nixon could only have dreamed of.

Philip Zimbardo

Most of the evil of the world comes about not out of evil motives, but somebody saying 'get with the program, be a team player;' this is what we saw at Enron, this is what we saw in the Nixon administration with their scandal.

John Chancellor

Other administrations have had a love-hate relationship with the press. The Nixon administration has a hate-hate relationship.

John F. Kennedy

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person between Nixon and the White House.

Edward Brooke

President Nixon has lost his effectiveness as the leader of this country, primarily because he has lost the confidence of the people.

Roger Morris

Nixon officials foreshadowed both the historic distinction and seamy underside of the presidency.

Roger Morris

I would have to say that Richard Nixon is probably the most gifted and skilled political practitioner, in his pre-presidential years, of all of the American presidents in the 20th century.

Andrew McPherson

I said, 'Oh great, this is the Nixon tapes'.

Fred Gray

If there had been no E.D. Nixon to get into the ruts and gullies and try to do something when it was very unpopular, things would not have been accomplished.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.

Scott Carpenter

We've all bowled at Cadillac, but today wasn't like the normal Cadillac. It was a very playable shot but just a little different.

Joe Johnson

We started off very poorly. But we know what we can do. We just settled down and played our normal game.

Hans Fischer

Coproporphyrin in particular is widespread; traces are present in normal urine and also in yeast. In special cultures, yeast can be made to produce considerable quantities of coproporphyrin.

Max Miller

We want it to be as normal as possible for the kids.

Charles Manson

I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal.

Carl Jung

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

J. Taylor

would be normal for these indictments to dropped.

Cheech Marin

Every medium has its own projection, and I find animation is much bigger than normal.

Alan Bennett

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

Scott Fosgard

Collaborating, we could set the standards for this type of technology.

Joan Claybrook

These standards are written for Detroit, by Detroit.

James Johnson

This is exciting. By earthworm standards they're pretty cool.

Albert Rauch

This is going to set the standards for all the other inhaled insulins that are in development,

Aimee Mann

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heel, head and standards high.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heels, head & standards high!

Jeff Olson

The expectations are very high. The standards were set long before I was born.

Marty Schottenheimer

I should have still been able to get it done. I wasn't surprised they took me out.

Jeremy Trill

Things are going very well. I am surprised how well it's going.

Frank Sacks

This is really groundbreaking. We were very surprised by this data.

Dan Garton

Do they like what we're doing? No. Are they surprised by it? No.

John Gordon

Brandon is a comedian. I wouldn't be surprised if he's on TV someday.

Alicia Silverstone

I'm surprised by the fact that I like the word 'husband.' I thought I would hate it.

Melissa Lundgren's

We already had one of each. We wanted to be surprised this time.

Debra Jackson

Everyone was surprised that should have been surprised.

Steve Smith

We weren't surprised by any of them. We were just surprised by so many of them. In my recollection, that's the most anomalies that's ever come up.

Al Pacino

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

Akhenaton

Say not unto thyself, Behold, truth breedeth hatred, and I will avoid it; dissimulation raiseth friends, and I will follow it. Are not the enemies made by truth, better than the friends obtained by flattery?

Chogyam Trungpa

If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.

Chick Corea

I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right.

Chief Joseph

It takes few words to tell the truth.

Chief Joseph

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

Edith Sitwell

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

There is no truth. Only points of view.

Eartha Kitt

Truth is a theory that is constantly being disproved. Only lies, it seems, go on forever.