Famous Quotes & Sayings

Studs Terkel

And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey.

E. O. Wilson

That's the way to get young people. Once they see there are wonderful things to hunt for, to rediscover a species that was thought to be extinct or is extremely rare, to be the first to see a nest, to discover a new species unsuspected close to your home - these are things, I think, with a little education and excitement and the right kind of natural history would actually start a movement that makes going back to nature a profitable adventure.

Thomas Mann

The observations and encounters of a devotee of solitude and silence are at once less distinct and more penetrating than those of the sociable man; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. Images and perceptions which might otherwise be easily dispelled by a glance, a laugh, an exchange of comments, concern him unduly, they sink into mute depths, take on significance, become experiences, adventures, emotions.

Tom Waits

I don't like the stigma that comes with being called a poet . . . So I call what I'm doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.

Steve Martin

Deeply funny musings and adventures elevate Paul Rudnick to the highest level of American comedy writing.

Stephen Sondheim

The difference between a cow and a bean is a bean can begin an adventure.

Stephen Fry

When Steampunk meets adventure and adventure meets comedy and comedy meets ingenuity and ingenuity meets charm and charm meets wonder and wonder meets pleasure the result is a Triumph. Dr Grordbort is the future. And the past. Which makes an ideal present.

Reggie Watts

Performers always come back from the Edinburgh festival with adventure stories. Watts told a few: meeting a young kilt maker who spent a year in a madhouse after eating too much LSD, and accompanying Seattle actor and musician Michael McQuilken (of Collaborator Productions) to the hospital after a Frisbee accident. He reached up to catch it and cut his hand on a sign, .. He had to get a few stitches, but I think he can still play.

Thomas Gray

Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions date descry.

Cesar Millan

Love is leading. People think it has to be two different roles but it is the same.

Blaise Pascal

That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides that which we love.

Deborah Tannen

The allure of love is to have someone who knows you so well that you don't have to explain yourself. It is the promise of someone who cares enough about you to protect you against the world of strangers who do not wish you well.

Barbara Cartland

Love is next to Godliness with certain safeguards.

Angel Haze

Love is boundary-less.

Tom Shadyac

Death is not the enemy. A life lived without love is the enemy.

Tom Jones

Love is in the air everywhere I look around. Love is in the air every sight and every sound.

Toni Morrison

Love is divine only and difficult always.

Toni Morrison

Love is never any better than the lover.

Billy Carter

The press made me something I really wasn't and I tried to live up to what they made me.

Conrad Aiken

I always hankered to be a composer - I was mad about music, though I never studied seriously, and can't read a note. But I learned to play the piano and became pretty skillful at improvisation, especially after a drop or two.

Alice Walker

I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.

Amy Schumer

I feel very comfortable in my own skin. When someone makes jokes about me being heavy, it makes me mad. It's not true. I'm right where I should be.

Anthony Burgess

Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

Ann Romney

I am so mad at the press I could just strangle them!

Anacreon

I both love and do not love; and am mad and not mad.

Tom Wolfe

Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.

Stephen King

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.