Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zach Galifianakis

Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.

Rick Riordan

A tinkerer,” snapped Pasiphaë. “Even worse. I knew Daedalus. His inventions brought me nothing but trouble.” Leo blinked. “Daedalus…like, the Daedalus? Well, then, you should know all about us tinkerers. We’re more into fixing, building, occasionally sticking wads of oilcloth in the mouths of rude ladies—

Mallory Ortberg

Letting events end is not rude. Everything ends.

Cassandra Clare

She warned me about Mr. Herondale, though, said he’d likely be rude to me, and familiar. She said I could be rude right back, that nobody would mind.” “Someone ought to be rude to him. He’s rude enough to everyone else.

Lisa Kleypas

Does he behave in rude or improper ways?" "He's a Bowman. We don't know any better.

Catherine Crier

Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination.

Edgar Friedenberg

Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.

Amy Poehler

Our ego is a monster that loves to sit at the head of the table, and I have learned that my ego is just as rude and loud and hungry as everyone else's. It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.

Daniel Dennett

There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude,

Billy Sunday

If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

G. H. Hardy

I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All physicists, and a good many quite respectable mathematicians, are contemptuous about proof. I have heard Professor Eddington, for example, maintain that proof, as pure mathematicians understand it, is really quite uninteresting and unimportant, and that no one who is really certain that he has found something good should waste his time looking for proof.

Felipe Alou

Any time you put Matheny in, that's good managing.

Jeff Garlin

If you're gonna be a maniac, pyro's not a good maniac.

David Ogilvy

I always use my clients' products. This is not toady-ism, but elementary good manners.

Bryan Gilmore

I think that's overrated. Sage will be fine.

Richelle Mead

I don’t know, Sage. You threw yourself in the line of pepper spray for me. You must like me just a little bit.” “I— I figured it’d be a shame to ruin your pretty face,” I stammered.

Richelle Mead

You’re killing me here, Sage!” “I’m not doing anything.” “Exactly my point.

Zhuangzi

The Portal of God is nonexistence. All things sprang from nonexistence. Existence could not make existence existence. It must have proceeded from nonexistence, and nonexistence and nothing are one. Herein is the abiding place of the sage.

Publilius Syrus

He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.

Joseph Glanvill

The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis.

Ramana Maharshi

Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.

Maimonides

The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

Jason Chaffetz

The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.