Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristophanes

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

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.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I was struck all on a heap.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

He is the very pineapple of politeness.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Janet Jackson

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

Miley Cyrus

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

Miley Cyrus

Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly You won't know if you never try.

Maria Mitchell

I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal.

Daniel Radcliffe

Don't try too hard to be something you're not.

Courteney Cox

Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another.

Clive Bell

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

e. e. cummings

it's no use trying to pretend that mostpeople and ourselves are alike. Mostpeople have less in common with ourselves than thesquarerootofminusone. You and I are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.