Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zach Galifianakis

Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.

Rick Riordan

A tinkerer,” snapped Pasiphaë. “Even worse. I knew Daedalus. His inventions brought me nothing but trouble.” Leo blinked. “Daedalus…like, the Daedalus? Well, then, you should know all about us tinkerers. We’re more into fixing, building, occasionally sticking wads of oilcloth in the mouths of rude ladies—

Mallory Ortberg

Letting events end is not rude. Everything ends.

Cassandra Clare

She warned me about Mr. Herondale, though, said he’d likely be rude to me, and familiar. She said I could be rude right back, that nobody would mind.” “Someone ought to be rude to him. He’s rude enough to everyone else.

Muriel Spark

Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.

Neal A. Maxwell

Love, patience, and meekness can be just as contagious as rudeness and crudeness.

Lisa Kleypas

Does he behave in rude or improper ways?" "He's a Bowman. We don't know any better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

Lee Ryan

I have a rude thought every three seconds!

Rodney Mullen

Don't let anything poison your individuality. Break away & look in, not outward.

Sasha Alexander

I don't know that you can compare it to another show because each show has its own individuality.

Sarah Vowell

You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.

Rudolf Steiner

We differ from one another in our individual gifts which, however, belong to our inner nature.

Walt Disney

I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control, I would be restrained.

Walt Whitman

The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.

William Butler Yeats

Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.

Johannes Stark

Moreover, the abundance of chemical compounds and their importance in daily life hindered the chemist from investigating the question, in what does the individuality of the atoms of different elements consist.

Oliver Goldsmith

Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.

Mark Richt

He's a big-league talent. I wish he wasn't a freshman. Hopefully, we won't have to play him for a while.

Woody Allen

If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something.

William James

If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

Roald Dahl

I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody.

Robert Smith

In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it.

Sara Shepard

My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true

Samuel Johnson

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Samuel Richardson

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.