Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zaha Hadid

I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase.

Ross Perot

In this country, if you're eccentric and a billionaire you either kill a wrestler or run for president.

Peter Kent

Even when she was at her wackiest, most eccentric and, I think fair to say, offensive, the entire party didn't wear her as the Conservative party sometimes wears the fellows at the fringes of the party,

Chris Noth

New York used to be so much more than just a place to shop. It was life on the street for the eccentrics; it was an eccentric city. It had many different tastes. Now it's just one - a really rich one - with big tall glass buildings.

Eva Green

When I'm at an event, I like to be an eccentric dresser. I will just keep wearing what I like.

Jules Verne

Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.

Mark Twain

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

Paloma Faith

It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

Bayard Taylor

Eccentricity is developed monomania.

Patty Krueger

Knowing when you are done, knowing when you are through with the entire painting, is the hardest thing to learn.

Charles Clarke

I think it is a shocking state of affairs. The concern, possibly anger, that people will feel is entirely understandable.

Petro Poroshenko

He didn't look in my eyes the entire time he was reading his statement.

Patrick Swayze

He just dropped. And the entire responsibility of the family suddenly was on me.

Sam Jonas

He jumped all over my weak serves and didn't give me any real room to breathe. He kept too much pressure on me the entire match.

Seth Shostak

The total number of people that do a job that has the same description as mine in the entire world is fewer than 10. There's a lot of effort looking for life in space - that's a lot of what NASA does, but they're not necessarily looking for the kind of life that can hold up its side of a conversation.

Steve Burtt

This was one of those nights where every shot feels good, even the misses. I felt that way the entire night.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

There are signs that the Arab states are beginning to realize that a nuclear-armed Iran would be a threat to the entire region, and not just to Israel.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

The words we spoke and our entire punk performance aimed to express our disapproval of a specific political event: the patriarchs' support of Vladimir Putin, who has taken an authoritarian and anti-feminist course.

Bill Self

I think it is fair to say that (the) winner of this game has a serious leg up on the other team. The winner of this game, if you are able to win a home game, is guaranteed at least a piece of it. There is not much margin for error.

Roy Barnes

He was a fair and honest judge. He will be missed by many.

Audrey Lewis

He didn't think he was getting a fair shake in the media, which is why he hired me.

Alan Cole

This was a goal of mine for a long time. To come over here and win a Fair race. My owner gives us what we need and this is how we should be running all the time.

Mike Mueller

He's a fairly reclusive fellow, and our interview is pretty fun.

Mike Holder

He's got some fairly serious injuries. He needs to get healthy. That's what we said in the press release.

Ken Cassar

Hockey could be a fairly solid niche market. In many parts of the country, the selection of products is fairly scarce.

Chris Perry

I think it's a quite useful paper. The (island) response is fairly minimal.

Michael Grant

I think it's going to be fairly difficult.

Sophie Hannah

I was working as a secretary in Manchester and thought I would always do that. Then I got this letter offering me a two-year fellowship where I could write; they would pay me a salary and give me a flat to live in. It was heaven.

Russell Crowe

I'm not one of those fellows that is just going to have a psuedo-middling relationship.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.

Bill Brown

The fellows playing today go for their shots more than we did,

Pankaj Mishra

The American writer is a very pampered figure - by foundations, by fellowships, by publishing advances. Even though I am not American, I have been pampered enough myself to know how it can make your life too frictionless.

Stephen Wright

It will be a moving reaffirmation of fellowship at sea.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God does not stop at rescuing us; the purpose of that rescue is to enjoy fellowship with us.

E. Housman

This is for all ill-treated fellows - Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble And I am not

Edmund Burke

Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.

Bouthaina Shaaban

What do you do if the other party won't talk?

Richard Posner

But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old Labour Party was incompatible with democracy, and I don't think that there is a good theoretical or empirical basis for that view. The Road to Serfdom flunks the test of accuracy of prediction!

Richard Dawkins

People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may have motivated the millionaire Conservative party donors. I have even heard the cynically misanthropic opinion that, without the Bible as a moral compass, people would have no restraint against murder, theft and mayhem. The surest way to disabuse yourself of this pernicious falsehood is to read the Bible itself.

Richard Whately

Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices.

Richard Whately

The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error.

Richelle Mead

But I’m just going to be out there having a tea party with her cats or whatever it is she has in mind." Adrian

Richelle Mead

Once you cross into the next loyal kingdom, however... be warned. You may not find such a warm reception. The Mimosa Land and its residents are not nearly so accommodating." This was warm and accommodating? That didn't bode well for the next kingdom. I also found it sad that a place called the Mimosa Land was unfriendly. It sounded like a party waiting to happen.

Richelle Mead

Sydney had been horrified to discover my home library consisted of a bartending dictionary and an old copy of Esquire, and at her pleading, I'd promised to read something more substantial. I was trying to think deep thoughts as I read Gatsby, but mostly I wanted to throw some parties.

Richelle Mead

Did you follow me from the party?" "Yes" "I didn't even know you were there." His dark clothes indicated he must have been on guardian duty at the party. "So you saw the illustrious Janine cause a commotion by dragging me out." "It wasn't a commotion. Hardly anyone noticed. I saw because I was watching you.

Unknown

Go mairir is go gathair - May you live and may you wear it out.

Alexandra Roach

I think you should just wear something you feel comfortable in. It's important to make a statement, but don't kill yourself over it.

Marie-Chantal Claire

I like wearing classic pieces with a modern twist.

Don Cherry

I never, ever said 'don't wear a visor,'

Elizabeth Thomas

You can wear it for daytime, or darken it for nighttime.

Stephen Colbert

You can't really be passionately moderate. It's like wearing an 'Extra Medium' - it doesn't exist.

Johnny Gimble

The magic, that's what keeps you playing. That's what never wears off.

Jojo Moyes

The fragrance I always wear is Coco by Chanel. I've worn it for 20 years. It suits me, it's classic, and I like the simplicity of only ever wearing one fragrance.

Whit Ayres

There's weariness and frustration. But that's different from active, nationwide protests.

Johnny Gimble

The magic, that's what keeps you playing. That's what never wears off.

James Jannard

Anyone who wears glasses can be an Oakley consumer.

David Byrne

I think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.