Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Wolfowitz

He's always been excruciatingly careful, which is ironic in his situation.

Rob Corddry

I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece.

Raymond Chandler

Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.

Samuel Johnson

Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt; that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls.

William Howard Taft

As a people, we have the problem of making our forests outlast this generation, or iron outlast this century, and our coal the next; not merely as a matter of convenience or comfort, but as a matter of stern necessity.

William Billings

Let tyrants shake their iron rod.

Wale

It's ironic how I drop some 'DOUGH' (Doh) when I got them Homer Simpsons.

Wally Lamb

Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I find it so ironic that all you do, for the earliest part of your life, is try to be like everybody else. And then you turn 30, and you realize all you want to do is distinguish yourself in some way.

Richard Perle

When you gaze into souls, it's something you should update periodically, because souls can change.

Richelle Mead

Poor Martin. Geek or no, committing his soul to eternal damnation was a helluva price to pay for six minutes.

Richelle Mead

I left her there crying as I walked toward the gate. A piece of my soul had died when Dimitri had fallen. Turning my back on her now, I felt another piece die as well. Soon there wouldn't be anything left inside me.

Richelle Mead

I don't care," said Seth. "I would have done it. I would have sold my soul for you. You and me...I told you. Something's always going to keep us near each other...even if we aren't together.

Richelle Mead

I've heard that the soul often recognizes truth when it hears it, even if the mind does not.

Richard Baxter

Sinners, hear and consider, if you wilfully condemn your souls to bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery.

Richard Bach

What was the question? ...Oh. Where do I get my crazy ideas? Answer: sleep-fairy, walk-fairy, shower-fairy. Book-fairy. And in these last few years, from my wife. Now when I have questions I ask her and she tells me the answer. If you haven't already, I'd suggest you want to find your soulmate, as soon as you can. Next question?

Richard Bach

What a story that would make! How many men and women go through the same rivers, menaced by the same sharp clichés, the same jagged dangers that have threatened us! If the idea stands up, I thought, it would be worth uncovering the typewriter! How Richard-years-ago would have wanted to know: What happens when we set off searching for a soulmate who doesn't exist, and find her?

Saint Augustine

If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon.

William Shenstone

A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.

Willa Cather

Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.

Plutarch

Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

Alfred North Whitehead

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

Tanith Lee

Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.

Oscar Wilde

The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

Chris Martin

The most extravagant thing I've ever bought is 95 tops all the same.

Imelda Marcos

Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life.