Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amy Adams

I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.

Amos Bronson Alcott

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

Alyson Hannigan

I know quickly whether a guy is boyfriend material. If I can have a good time doing absolutely nothing with him, then that's boyfriend material for me. Like if we're able to have fun at a gas station. I've had some really good times at gas stations.

Anna Kournikova

I am beautiful, famous and gorgeous.

Anita Loos

One might feel that, at my age, I should look on life with more gravity. After all, I've been privileged to listen, firsthand, tosome of the most profound thinkers of my daywho were all beset by gloom over the condition the world had gotten into. Then why can't I view it with anything but amusement?

Clay Shirky

So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this - the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower. And the effects of that increased pool of potential producers is going to be vast.

Cullen Hightower

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Clifton Fadiman

Muhammad Ali: Superman Don't need no seat belt. Flight Attendant: Superman Don't need no airplane, either.

Clint Eastwood

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

Dick Cavett

Great humorists are great insulters.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

David Lynch

Individual peace is the unit of world peace.

Ambrose Bierce

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Alice Paul

This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.

Alice McDermott

The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed.

Alice Munro

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Anne Michaels

Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can push me back into the world.

Ann Voskamp

Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things

Ann Voskamp

In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.