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.

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.

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.

Bobby Carpenter

We've done about 30 or so of these. Now, it's finally winding down.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Even theories must have foundations.

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.

Howard Rheingold

Knowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The Yiddish mentality is not haughty. It does not take victory for granted. It does not demand and command but it muddles through, sneaks by, smuggles itself amidst the powers of destruction, knowing somewhere that God's plan for Creation is still at the very beginning.

Ellen Bass

There is a comfort in knowing that you don’t have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.

Hugh Jackman

The hunger will give you everything and it will take from you, everything. It will cost you your life, and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it. But knowing this, of course, is what ultimately sets you free.

Keith Olbermann

If he does not sue, he is a drug user, a repeat steroid user, a knowing steroid user. He has to sue for everything that the next 50 years of merchandising is worth.

David Franks

If he could get it fixed, knowing Troy, he'll be back out there. But this is unfortunate. We'll just have to move forward.

Valerie Azlynn

I like a man with some extra padding.

Swami Vivekananda

What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.

Swami Vivekananda

To see God is the one goal. Power is not the goal.

Swami Vivekananda

Thought is like a bubble rising to the surface. When thought is joined to will, we call it power. That which strikes the sick person whom you are trying to help is not thought, but power.

Swami Vivekananda

There is no power on earth which can be kept long confined within a narrow limit. It cannot be kept compressed too long to allow of expansion at a subsequent period.

Swami Vivekananda

The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear.

Swami Vivekananda

Prana is the driving power of the world, and can be seen in every manifestation of life.

Swami Vivekananda

Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.

Swami Vivekananda

It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.

Swami Vivekananda

If one has got power, one must manifest it in action.

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.

Annie Dillard

You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.

Anna Quindlen

For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like weddings.

Angie Dickinson

I didn't care about being the 'star. ' I just wanted to make a living and have a consistent career.

Claire Bloom

When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press, who are even more vicious and cruel than the Americans. So I have been extremely guarded ever since.

Cindy Sheehan

I can't speak for the other people whose children have died, but I can speak for my family and the other members of Gold Star Families for Peace. We believe we're honoring our children by working for peace.

Chuck Norris

It's amazing because people come up to me and say, 'Chuck, you're the luckiest guy in the world to be a world karate champion and a movie and TV star.' When they say this to me, I kind of smile because luck had nothing to do with it; God had everything to do with it.

Alfred Bester

Gully Foyle is my name And Terra is my nation Deep space is my dwelling place The stars my destination

Alfred de Musset

I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them

Gregory Peck

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