Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.

Sylvia Plath

Look at that ugly dead mask here and do not forget it. It is a chalk mask with dead dry poison behind it, like the death angel. It is what I was this fall, and what I never want to be again. The pouting disconsolate mouth, the flat, bored, numb, expressionless eyes: symptoms of the foul decay within.

Sylvia Plath

When you are insane, you are busy being insane-all the time ... when I was crazy, that was all I was.

Judith Guest

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

P. G. Wodehouse

A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.

Milton Friedman

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

Keisha Buchanan

With depression, you can go in and out of it and not really know whether it's still there or not. Sometimes I'd find myself bursting into tears for no reason.

Kirstie Alley

For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.

Marian Keyes

I couldn’t be with people and I didn’t want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I was far out in space, watching the world. I could see millions and millions of people, all slotted into their lives; then I could see me—I’d lost my place in the universe. It had closed up and there was nowhere for me to be. I was more lost than I had known it was possible for any human being to be.

Noel Coward

I'm over-educated in the things I shouldn't have known at all.

Kiana Tom

Our viewers are very educated, they can tell if I train or not.

Philip Dick

The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.

Francis Bacon

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

Peter Schmitt

We have accomplished a lot together, And we are friends.

Janet Sacavage

I don't think I had any friends whose mother's worked.

Will Rogers

We can get mighty rich, but if we haven't got any friends, we will find we are poorer than anybody.

Joan Anderson

It's a great way to meet new friends.

Henry Renteria

That phone call, or registering on line, is a key step toward getting help.

Debby Ryan

I'm very, very low-key in general.

Drew Carey

Learn how to set goals. That's the key to everything. That includes designing your own success. You define what the goal is, it's not somebody else's goal, it's yours.

Susan Cain

Solitude is one of our great superpowers... Solitude is the key to being able to make effective decisions and then having the courage of convictions to stand behind those decisions.

Phil Jackson

For us tall people, the whole key is that your hips and your knees should form a right angle when you sit down. That's where backs and hips get to be problems for big guys.

Richard Gere

What I can do is find the keys that will plug into my own 30 years of training in Buddhism, and find things that are parallel or resonant in the work that I have done.

Eugene Levy

At the end of the day, even if my part is a bit goofy, the key thing is that I'm doing what I love to do, and that's to make people laugh.

Chucky Atkins

In the playoffs, the key for us is how tough we are and are we going to go get the rebounds.

Jim Fassel

I just keep trying a different key in that lock to see what can get us unlocked and going,

Tom Stern

It was tough for every wrestler to get through (to state). There are a lot of kids that aren't going who could be.

Bow Wow

My fans saw 'Roll Bounce,' but also that older crowd who might not have been familiar with me on the music tip saw 'Roll Bounce' and loved it. 'Roll Bounce' opened up that door for me to have older people love Bow Wow and opened up that door so all of the kids would love Bow Wow. My fan base is really diverse; it's all ages and all colors.

Jason Dominick

This win is a real tribute to our kids. We lost a lot from last season's team and these kids really put in the time during the summer in order to get back to this point.

Butch Cassidy

Kid, the next time I say let's go someplace like Bolivia. Let's go someplace like Bolivia.

Busy Philipps

I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid, and was always doing bits for my friends and family.

Demi Lovato

As a kid I'd play with homemade recipes, like putting pineapple on my face to exfoliate my skin and doing facial steams with lavender or peppermint oils. I just loved doing stuff like that. It's what motivated me to launch my skin care line.

Bobby Fischer

Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn't seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn't like that, so I decided I'd have to show them they weren't any better than me, you know? They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, 'He beat us at chess, but he's still just an uncouth kid.' So I decided to dress up.

Brian P. Cleary

Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you're a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation - that people's families and their young kids are being affected.

Tom Mashek

We wanted to be aggressive. We can't sit back and let things happen. I really liked our aggressiveness. We really went after it.

Ann Richards

I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the decisiveness of it.

Terry Stotts

I really liked the way we competed in the second half. With Michael and Mo out, I was really proud of the way our team competed.

B.o.B

I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.

Pat Robertson

Ashok means without sorrow, and he lives up to his name.

English 14th Century Proverbs

A reed before the wind lives on, while mighty oaks do fall.

William Blake

Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself.

Tamsin Greig

There's something in us that lives just beyond our normality - and I think we've all got a song in us. If only we could master that tiny muscle and make it sound listenable.

Mark Udall

We are, in sum, much safer than we were, and I say that as someone who lives just three miles from the site.

Lionel Richie

I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.

Gene Luen Yang

The project that I did between 'Boxer & Saints' was 'The Shadow Hero,' which is illustrated by Sonny Liew, an artist who lives in Singapore.

John Pomfret

But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are willing to risk their lives to tell you what they saw, even though they have no dog in the fight.

Andre Leon Talley

Stella McCartney, not only is she a designer, she is a mother of four, and she lives for practicality. She understands what a woman needs to wear to work and what a woman needs to wear when it's time to go out and put on the Ritz!

Frank Billingsley

This is one more reason to be downtown, in buildings, parks and public areas. It also sends a message that this is a progressive community.

Andy Stanley

Environments are the messages before the message.

Johnny Depp

If there is any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's ok to be different.

Christopher Klaus

If we in the U.S. can't protect ourselves, what message does that send to the rest of the world?

Brett Favre

I called back probably 30 minutes after I got that message and got Scott's voice mail.

William Thomas Stead

What is my message? That is what troubles me. I have not got a message.

H. Hunt

The messages can be tailored to how the parameters are defined.

Mahatma Gandhi

Your life is your message.

Ashleigh Brilliant

I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must have been from you.

Kathleen Hanna

Popularity is totally overrated.

Patrick Smith

That play took a lot out of us.

Alice Temperley

If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.

Tom Daschle

He took charge, and it made a big difference,

Kenoy Kennedy

I think I took off before he started to slide. I'll take a look at it on the film.

Pete Carroll

It took all day long to get this win, ... It took every second.

Hassan Adams

We were well-prepared. It took us a week to get ready.

Lydia M. Child

The United States is ... a warning rather than an example to the world.

J. William Fulbright

The American public has become so conditioned by crises, by warnings, by words, that there are few, other than the young, who protest against what is happening.

Bill McKibben

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.