Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baruch Spinoza

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

Oliver Goldsmith

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative

Kurt Braunohler

I was writing this really long joke about the smell of poop, and I was like, 'What am I doing with my life?' I started to think about why I was a comedian, and then I came up with a reason for existence, which is: inserting absurdity or stupidity into strangers' lives in order to make the world a better place.

T. J. Miller

Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

Sir Eddington

I think there should be a law of Nature to prevent a star from behaving in this absurd way!

George Osborne

The allegations are completely untrue, and dredging up a photo from when I was 22 years old is pretty desperate stuff. This is merely part of an absurd smear campaign to divert attention from the issues that matter in this leadership contest.

Willie Geist

In a tradition second in wonderful absurdity only to 60-year-old baseball managers wearing uniforms and spikes in the dugout, golf spectators come dressed ready to play 18.

Elfriede Jelinek

was made into an award-winning film, ''for her musical flow of voices and countervoices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power.

Kele Okereke

It's absurd to think a band is something heroic. There is nothing heroic about being a band or making music. Heroic is doing a job that you hate every day in an office to support your family. It's carrying on in the face of that.

Carl Pettersson

It was a little easier in the dreams, ... It's nice to finish it off the way I did.

Ayumi Hamasaki

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.

Nido Qubein

This is a turning point for High Point University, ... Mr. Wilson's gift will enable us to fulfill many dreams and heighten our standards to new levels of excellence.

Bobby Byerly

Never did I think we'd score 15 runs on this bunch. Never in my wildest dreams.

Marguerite Gardiner

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

Gaby Bussell

The region (5) we are in now is not as intense. It was good to play some of our old rivals again. Going to state is helping to make all of our team's dreams come true.

Wale

I'm fortunate enough to be living my dreams and a lot of other peoples' dreams.

William Butler Yeats

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Frankie Valli

The way the lyric, ?you're just too good to be true I can't take my eyes off you.? It's just magical.

Rod Smith

We had a good season, but it's still a failure to me. That's in my eyes, that's nobody else's opinion, that's my opinion because I know what it's like to hold the trophy at the end. But anything less than that is a failure to me. . . . When we needed it the most, we didn't get it. Their team was better.

E. B. White

When it comes to Jasmine, I can't say enough about her. When she sees a zone, her eyes just light up.

RM Gayle

When it comes to children, I look at things differently. I see him locking his eyes in court, and I see the nervousness and trauma in the girl's eyes as she looks at him.

Jay Alford

I can see it in his eyes. He's itching to go out there, but they just won't let him.

Joe Girardi

He's got no fear. He could throw all of his pitches over at any time. He opened a lot of eyes this spring. He's come a long way in a short period of time.

Carl Sandberg

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning.

Sean Casey

You could see the sadness in their eyes,

Danielle Ward

The focus is there, the confidence. You can see it in everybody's eyes - the eagerness, the desire, the want.

Mikhail Youzhny

I am really happy because I finally won a tournament after two years, ... I had been playing well but, for some reason, I couldn't win a tournament.

Kiaran McLaughlin

She finished second so many times, and I'm glad she finally got a graded stakes win. She's a very good filly.

Jeff Probst

I finally met someone who could teach me about love.

Jerramy Stevens

I think so. We're finally getting that respect we've been wanting all year.

James Garner

I said, 'Well, I'll give myself five years to see if I can make a living at it.' And after five years I was 30 and I said, 'Yeah, I can go another five years on just the reputation I have now' and then I went another five, and another five, and another five, and finally -- at 50 years old -- I said 'You know, I think I have a career,'

M.I.A.

In my head, I actually think my songs are pop songs. I think, 'Damn, that's a pop song!' I can practice in front of the mirror with my hairbrush for as long as I want to. But when it finally comes out, it sounds avant-garde to people.

Chad Arko

It's nice for him to finally get rewarded.

Troy Smith

It's great that finally a single restaurant gets noticed in the D/FW area.

Scott Niedermayer

It was nice to finally win a game like that. It seems we've been on the short end of a lot of games like that.

Philip Glass

And then I went back to New York and found other people doing it. A handful of people.

Randy Ridley

This is the foundation of the whole season. These are the guys that we really want to look at who we feel will be an important part of our season.

Boris Kodjoe

I knew immediately that she was going to be in my life forever. I didn't know in what capacity, but I knew that I had found someone who was going to be close to me for a long time. We became great friends fast.

Russell Feingold

Even the Heritage Foundation is interested in that kind of approach,

Michael Franti

I've always found that the poorer the places that I go, the more smiles I see, and the more happiness I see.

Melvin Burgess

He'd come back, all open and helpless, and I suppose that's what won her around in the end. But it was so sad, because it was being himself that he found so difficult to cope with.

Manny Legace

(Los Angeles) played a very solid hockey game tonight. We just found a way and gutted out the win.

Robert Fulghum

Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.

Jonathan Gaw

Search has become that thing that we lost and now we've found again. It's a Prodigal Son.

O. Singh

Let everyone hail and praise the True Guru, who has led us to find the treasure of the Lord s devotional worship.

Richard Beymer

I was sort of caught up in my own web of illusion.

Stacy Kim

Probably the toughest part is knowing that I have to play well. That's the one skill that I am still working on.

Arthur Mitchell

Walk into a room, knowing you are somebody, somebody special. Don't ever let them smash that or pull you down.

Brian Johnson

My willingness to explore and work freely is not without risk, and at times, I find myself caught in a bind... Knowing I can fix whatever goes wrong allows me to paint, not without thought, but without hesitation.

Blaise Pascal

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.

Aristotle

Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.

Elizabeth Bowen

Plot is the knowing of destination.

Angie Stone

I get a special joy in knowing people feel comfortable if they see me in Wal-Mart or in a no-frills section trying to get something on a discount.

Amy Lee

Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all.

Ally Carter

But in the end she merely shrugged, knowing at the very least it would be interesting. Knowing, in her gut, it might just be the beginning.

Ruth J. Simmons

There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.

Kevin Logan

It's a very thin market. People don't want to take any risk because of the lack of liquidity.

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Edward Fitzgerald

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Baltasar Gracian

At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing.

O. Singh

I am still the man of the series, and you still remember it.

Mark Twain

But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

Stanley Asumnu

I faked my man and got around him. There was another man standing there but I just kind of went over him.

Bible Bible

If a man will not work, he shall not eat.

Joseph Addison

I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species

Tara Fisher

People need to know that predators aren't a man in the bushes. Eighty-five percent of the time you know your attacker.

Ben Okri

If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will...

Brendan Fraser

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash

Ken Starr

Rights are in the power of the people.

Charles R. Swindoll

Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.

Charles Darwin

Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural basis of sentiment for utilitarian morality," but on the previous page he says, "if, as is my own belief, the moral feelings are not innate, but acquired, they are not for that reason less natural." It is with hesitation that I venture to differ from so profound a thinker, but it can hardly be disputed that the social feelings are instinctive or innate in the lower animals; and why should they not be so in man?

Demian Bichir

Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.

Barbara Bush

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

Manny Fernandez

Every power play they got, they really bared down. They really got us.

Adlai Stevenson

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Sally Field

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person.

Shawn Miller

He started to raise it and we all ran. We scattered. It was panic.

David Rosen

I didn't inquire about any costs. If I did that, I wouldn't have had time to raise money.

Walter Mondale

Mr. Reagan will raise taxes; and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did.

W. Clement Stone

Stand up. Raise your arms. Repeat after me: I feel healthy! I feel happy! I feel terrific!

David Gregory

I will yell. If you want to use that podium to try to take shots at me personally, which I don't appreciate, then I will raise my voice, because that's wrong.

William Mapother

I'm ready for conventions. You know what's interesting, the sort of questions that Lost raises are of a different sort from this movie. In other words, Lost is about figuring out the world of the show, whereas this one seems to raise questions about the world that we know. But I'm happy to entertain both.

Scott Porter

I was raised around music.

Robert Thomas

It raised our spirits up and made us feel good. It makes us ready to play.

Barry Sanders

If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman, or somebody like Adrian Peterson.

Brian Andreas

We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own.

Channing Tatum

I grew up watching 'Braveheart' and 'Gladiator.' Those are my 'Star Wars.' They have values and traits about them that I wish I had.

Diana Wynne Jones

I could cut a star out of paper and drop it.

Damon Lindelof

Star Wars' is a galaxy a long time ago, far, far away. 'Star Wars' is not about our future.

Craig Ferguson

I wanted to be a rock star.

Brian Chesky

I think the next big thing in music, and it's kind of because I come from the tech industry, is actually, I think it's the platform... Spotify is incredibly interesting. I think the platform is becoming the star.

Boethius

Love binds people too, in matrimony's sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

I cannot find my way: there is no star In all the shrouded heavens anywhere

Elie Wiesel

The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes.

Miley Cyrus

This is a new point in my life, and things are totally changing. But like the sunsets I saw on Tybee Island, the miles I’ve already gone are going to stay with me.

Brian Clough

You don't want roast beef and Yorkshire every night and twice on Sunday.

Ana Castillo

Between the sun and poverty there was us for a little while.

Alexander Pope

The soul's calm sunshine and heartfelt joy.

Raoul Dufy

One must not imitate the sun, one must make oneself into a sun.

Thomas Jefferson

The sun - my almighty physician.

William Butler Yeats

Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun....

Zelda Fitzgerald

["The Sun Also Rises" is about] bullfighting, bullslinging and bullsh[*]t.

Mahatma Gandhi

Khadi will be the sun of the whole industrial solar system.

Jaime Contreras

Some days, work is truly a four-letter word.

Shaukat Aziz

This truly encapsulates China's world view in this century,

Nigella Lawson

There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.

Bette Davis

I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem.

Gregory Peck

If you have to tell them who you are, you aren't anybody.

Mark Twain

All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

Berthold Auerbach

The vain being is the really solitary being.

Rafe Spall

Theres nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.

Lewis B. Smedes

Because arrogance is born in personal vanity, arrogant people are driven without mercy. They can never get enough power to fill the soul's needs or enough respect to overcome the fear that they deserve less than they are getting.

Logan Pearsall Smith

One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.