Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Fisher

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

Carrie Fisher

Instant gratification takes too long.

Bill Vaughan

Muscles come and go; flab lasts.

Bill Bryson

Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at midnight, and the Italians should never, ever have been let in on the invention of the motor car.

William Shakespeare

I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!

Dave Barry

Please try not to be such a wiener-head.

Dave Barry

The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning “ability to,” and bics, meaning “withstand tremendous boredom.

Bryan Singer

Since I started making films, I've been a nut for dialogue. When I first saw Star Wars when I was 12 years old, I came home and recited all of the lines from it. Before I talked about Death Stars exploding and Tie Fighters I was talking about how funny Princess Leia was and how sarcastic Han Solo was. So to me that's always the most important thing, and I love hearing great actors say great lines.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I was very bored at school. I found it very easy and slow and grey. My teachers didn't really know how to handle me, because I was very sarcastic. I was over-confident, arrogant, a typical youngest child. I went through periods of withdrawing into myself and school psychologists tried to figure me out, work out why I didn't fit in. I found that irritating, too.

Stephanie Hill

I thought my back would be hurting forever, and I was nervous that I wouldn't be able to play at all (this year). And if I did play, I thought I would be in pain. I didn't think it would just go away, but it did.

Whitney Myers

I'm still stunned (that I won the race). I'm really proud of how I did. I was hurting in that last 100 yards but no guts, no glory. This is the first time I've ever swum the 400 (individual medley) in a major meet.

Kaylee Brown

It doesn't mean anything to lose. It hurts real bad. We need to get a win when they come to Lawrence, but we've go to do better if we want to win in Lawrence.

Mike Zeyen

We're a little disappointed. There's some hurting going on. It was a real tough regional.

Jeff Whitney

We played Laura way too much. But we are a better team with her in the lineup. It hurts not having her in the lineup.

Rodney Carney

I was reflecting on my whole career, reflecting on how we played so bad. It's hurtful not to be going home. I'll go home, but not the way I wanted to.

Calvin Coolidge

I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say

Martin O'Malley

If a bank's too big so that it can't fail without hurting our economy, well then, it's too big.

Terry Smith

I don't think it's hurting too much, and people aren't polluting the world so much.

C. S. Lewis

You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong - only because cruelty is pleasant or useful to him, In other words, badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.

Carl Rakosi

... Kindness, sweetest of the small notes in the world's ache, most modest & gentle of the elements entered man before history and became his daily connection, let no man tell you otherwise.

Bertrand Russell

It can be shown that a mathematical web of some kind can be woven about any universe containing several objects. The fact that our universe lends itself to mathematical treatment is not a fact of any great philosophical significance.

Tommy Bell

We had one match that was kind of a little slip-up, but other than that we were really on top of our game.

Robert Frost

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Tom Powers

We've kind of been spoiled with Tania. Now we are going to be more of a scrappy team that passes well. We are smaller now but more athletic.

William Shakespeare

He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.

Paul Thomas Anderson

No, really. Just do it. You have some kind of weird reasons that are okay.

Schelley Olhava

Microsoft is kind of an underdog, but they've also come a long way with the Xbox,