Famous Quotes & Sayings

William S. Burroughs

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

Rich Lowry

It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well.

Sai Baba

Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.

Jose Marti

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

Orson Welles

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

Benjamin Disraeli

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Ozzy Osbourne

Just take our name off the list. . . . The nomination is meaningless, because it's not voted on by the fans . . . .

Marquis de Sade

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.

Richard Selzer

You do not die all at once. Some tissues live on for minutes, even hours, giving still their little cellular shrieks, molecular echoes of the agony of the whole corpus.

Vera Wang

The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.

Robert Penn Warren

Everything seems an echo of something else.

Yannick Noah

You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.

William Hazlitt

The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice.

Jake Gyllenhaal

We all develop relationships with each other based on our first relationships, and then how we experience them. But inevitably they are echoes of earlier on. In my belief.

Eric Hoffer

Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.

Marshall McLuhan

The subliminal depths of radio are charged with the resonating echoes of tribal horns and antique drums. This is inherent in the very nature of this medium, with its power to turn the psyche and society into a single echo chamber.

Knut Hamsun

The writer must be able to revel and roll in the abundance of words; he must know not only the direct but also the secret power of a word. There are overtones and undertones to a word, and lateral echoes, too.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love.