Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Robson

We haven't paid 25 million and 10 million and all the dazzling figures you see being banded about for strikers at the moment. We've been very clever and frugal in our dealings. He's not cheap, he's not for nothing, but we're very happy with the deal.

Robert A. Heinlein

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

Robert A. Heinlein

A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being 'frank'.

Thomas Mann

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

Thomas Carlyle

I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.

Tom Shippey

Many sci-fi authors, we know, are as clever and tricky as so many Coyotes. Ms. Le Guin, though, has matured from the vividness and imagination she had from the beginning into wisdom and a clearsightedness that reaches past sympathy.

Steven Hall

There’s no way to really preserve a person when they’ve gone and that’s because whatever you write down it’s not the truth, it’s just a story. Stories are all we’re ever left with in our head or on paper: clever narratives put together from selected facts, legends, well edited tall tales with us in the starring roles

Roger Federer

I haven't had a cramp since '99. That was my only time, in Davis Cup, when I was panicky. I was young. I'm very proud of that. Never pulled out. Never had cramps. Never lost very much because of fitness, especially later on in my career where I knew I've put in the hard work. I've done that. I've been very fortunate and clever as well to understand how I need to work, when I need to work. So I'm very happy to have stayed injury free for so long. I hope I can still maintain a few good years on the tour. I really hope so.

Sally Potter

A narrative thread gives people permission to think about other things whilst being carried by its flow. It does not mean that one has to compromise one's vision, or question formal concerns. It's just being more subtle and clever by having one accessible thread.

Brad Thor

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

George Bernard Shaw

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

Gene Brown

If there were any justice in this world, people would occasionally be permitted to fly over pigeons.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power.

Franz Kafka

We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.

Jason Newsted

When I came into Metallica, I had to do justice to Cliff's work, but I also had to put my own signature on it. No one could be Cliff Burton; Cliff Burton was the Jimi Hendrix of bass.

Gina Jones

But I already knew what the truth was. Now the truth is out, and I want justice.

Bob Brown

But I did say to President Bush, 'Respect Australia. Return the Australians to this nation for justice and if you respect the world's laws, the world will respect you.'

Carl von Clausewitz

Criticism exists only to recognize the truth, not to act as judge.

Sophocles

It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.

Sophocles

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!

Stephen King

Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

Tammy Faye Bakker

The Bible says, Judge not lest ye be judged. Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.

Tammy Bruce

Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.

Tom Ford

It's really never fair to judge people because none of us know what's going on inside anyone else's head.

Tom Baker

When judging others it's the intangibles that we often miss.

Tommy Wiseau

As a director and an actor, it is very difficult to say "this person was better than another person." I judge by chemistry of the actors but it is difficult being a judge. I will never bash any of the actors.