Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woody Allen

The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion.

Samuel Richardson

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

Roger Ebert

James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.

Samuel Johnson

The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the interest of learning requires that they should be discovered and stigmatized, before they have the sanction of antiquity conferred upon them, and become precedents of indisputable authority.

Samuel Johnson

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

Ronald Reagan

Excellence does not begin in Washington.

Alan Alda

Others will step in and do his job with excellence. But no one can replace the unique person that was Peter.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

The banker, therefore, is not so much primarily a middleman in the commodity "purchasing power" as a producer of this commodity. However, since all reserve funds and savings today usually flow to him, and the total demand for free purchasing power, whether existing or to be created, concentrates on him, he has either replaced private capitalists or become their agent; he has himself become the capitalist par excellence.

Benjamin Franklin

The excellency of hogs is fatness, of men virtue

Richard Dawkins

Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing to add to that knowledge, as we still know nothing about the creation of that intelligence.

Richard Ayoade

A writer/director is a tough thing to gauge when someone hasn't directed a movie before. You just don't know. Sometimes it will be a great script that's written beautifully, and then the director who has also written it does not have the facility to translate it.

Russell Banks

Nobody does anything for one reason.

Russell Brand

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.

Woodrow Wilson

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know

William Wycherley

Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.

William Shenstone

Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.

William J. Clinton

I like that about the Republicans; the evidence does not faze them, they are not bothered at all by the facts.

Bill Bradley

If you're timid in your candidacy, you're going to be timid in your presidency and that's not why I want to be president.

Orrin Hatch

then I have to tell you I think that this presidency will be over.

David Gergen

Think of that, the split-screen sense. That's the problem this presidency has ... it's being split down the middle.

Paul Ashley

Three years ago, the presidency was his to lose.

Jan Balkenende

Now it's up to the presidency to work on its proposals.

Ricardo Lagos

Turning the presidency over to a woman of Michelle's stature will be a privilege.

Gloria Allred

Well, let me just say - I mean, I'm not a person who's going to vote for any of the potential Republican nominees for the presidency of the United States.

Stephen Hess

The president was still Ike, and the presidency went on.