Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert M. Pirsig

The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

Virginia Woolf

The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.

Rebecca Solnit

If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.

Nelson Eddy

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

Nawal El Saadawi

I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

R. C. Sproul

The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The opposite of nature is impossible.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction.

Will Rogers

In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain't half has bad as the things they have been saying right out loud.

Walter Lord

It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more aware of it than they were in 1954, when I was doing my research.

Pierre Salinger

A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first.

Ken Dodd

Comedy should never be over-analysed. It's either funny or it isn't. There's a subtle difference between those who say funny things and those who say things funny.

Dean Koontz

And the funny thing was if you made the best of it, if you smiled through every storm, the bad things were never as terrible as you expected them to be, and the good things were better than anything you could have wished for yourself.

Dylan O'Brien

With TV, you just have to finish the days and get the episodes out. And it's always going to be an impossible schedule. That's the funny thing with TV that not a lot of people realize.

Raymond Carver

There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.

Ray Stevens

The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.

Richard Branson

The funny thing is people won't let me pay for things. I'll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, 'Oh no, it's on the house.'

Sarah Dessen

Quiet and incredible. I really envy that.

Roger Waters

Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?

Samuel Johnson

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Jonathan Swift

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

Mark Twain

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

Paulo Coelho

The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them.

Plutarch

Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.

Monica Bellucci

Envy is human nature.