Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janis Joplin

At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.

Florence Nightingale

diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.

Gertrude Stein

There are a lot of other things besides nouns.

Kim Harrison

I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.

Joe Biden

Theres only three things [Giuliani] mentions in a sentence—a noun, a verb, and 9/11

Benjamin Whorf

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.

Rob Sheffield

I didn't know what I was. I didn't have a noun.

Edith Wharton

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.

Daymond John

You can make up your own opinion, but you can't make up your own facts, go sell.

David Bryant

God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know.

Antony Jay

The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.

Derek Jacobi

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

Bill O'Reilly

Have nothing to do with coaches. In fact, if you should see one coming, go and hide behind the pavilion until he goes away.

Bernard Baruch

Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.

C. S. Lewis

The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator—to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature. When it does so, it is good and happy.

Brett Hall

We have no interest in helping him (Coleman) be a martyr. He has demonstrated a lack of understanding of the facts in the past and probably misunderstands what this administration has accomplished in hiring minorities and women in the state work force.

Charles Simonyi

HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time.

Charles Spurgeon

I know perfectly well that, wherever I go and preach, there are many better preachers ... than I am; all that I can say about it is that the Lord uses me.

Charles Spurgeon

Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints of God than health has.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply.

Chogyam Trungpa

We should see money in terms of the expenditure of energy and how we are going to transmute that energy into a proper use.

Chinua Achebe

The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.

China Machado

I would never become a big, big model in the commercial sense because I was such a type; you couldn't use me in everything.

China Chow

I used to be more glamorous.

Edward Hirsch

Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends.