Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Gaiman

American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them.

Neil Gaiman

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

Virginia Woolf

As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world.

Virginia Woolf

A woman must have money and a room of her own.

George Eliot

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

Ian Fleming

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Jilly Cooper

You've simply got to go on and on with your family and friends and tell them how much you love them because you never know whether they'll be there tomorrow, do you?

Thomas Day

The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.

Thomas Day

In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.

Mark Harmon

I was raised with the idea of maximum effort: as long as you could look in the mirror and say, 'I gave it everything I had,' it was OK. But if you gave it less, that would disgrace you.

William Shakespeare

What a disgrace it is to me to remember thy name.

Steven Aftergood

A lot of what we think we know of our recent history may be mistaken, ... It is a disgrace that it should be so in a democracy, but it is.

Max Beerbohm

O the disgrace of it! - / The scandal, the incredible come-down!

Francesco Cece

A lie stands inside the liar, through grace and disgrace it will be confronted!

Bruce Barton

The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.

Lao Tzu

Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Sally Regenhard

We are hoping that the federal government will not leave these victims behind. This is not only a disgrace to the city, it's a disgrace to the nation.

Nora Roberts

There is no disgrace in staying behind, not when it's the right thing.

Leander Paes

If I have a reason to do something, and I have enough passion, I generally succeed.

Rick Glancey

When you think of the military that's generally what you think of, green style uniforms and green style armory.

Henry Samueli

The owner's job is to hire the general manager. The general manager's job is to run the hockey team.

Rick Adelman

We're not going to sit back and let this continue. We're not happy about what's going on, and I know Mr. Geoff Petrie (the general manager) is not happy either. We have too much talent for this.

Ron Gettelfinger

We've got a pretty unique situation involving General Motors . That's why I'm optimistic.

Phil Garner

We're going to leave that to our general manager. Sure, I'd like to have Clemens back.

Jim Harrison

We're generally opposed. We feel there is already a high return rate.

Keira Knightley

What's nice about playing somebody real is that generally there's more information about them, so a lot of the questions that you'd otherwise have to make up the answers to are already there.

Chip Hanlon

With the president, Republicans are of two minds. With national security, there is a level of content. But with economics, there is a general level of discontent.

Charles Dickens

But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.

Charles Dickens

I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart

Charles Dickens

He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.

Charles Dickens

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!

Charles Caleb Colton

Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it; and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions

Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction to none of them, and yet he is the only despot who can never die, while any of his subjects live.

Charles Caleb Colton

We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon our own case we are both judge, jury, and executioner, and where sophistry cannot overcome the first, or flattery the second, self-love is always ready to defeat the sentence by bribing the third.

Charles Caleb Colton

Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good; if meagre, muddy, vapid and sour, both are fit only to engender colic and wind; but if rich, generous and sparkling, they communicate a genial glow to the spirits, improve the taste, and expand the heart.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Chip Kidd

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

David Icke

A group of reptilian humanoids, called the Babylonian Brotherhood, control humanity.

David Hume

Custom is the great guide to human life.

Astro Teller

Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.

Hit-Boy

I had to learn how to think as a positive human being, before anything.

Herbert A. Simon

I like to think that since I was about 19, I have studied human decision-making and problem-solving.

Alan Rickman

You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.

Dennis Morgigno

We want to start talking (soon) and make sure we let them know we want them. They've let us know they're very interested in talking.

David Hockney

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

David Brin

But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.

Ben Whishaw

I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.

Beau Bridges

On the other side, if Im playing a good guy, then he has some problems too. Thats what makes people interesting, in life and in fiction.

Denzel Washington

When you make a movie it's always interesting, because you end up in places you never would as a normal visitor or tourist.

Deepa Mehta

The most interesting part of IIFA is that I get to meet filmmakers from India. I just attended a symposium on Satyajit Ray with Rituparno Ghosh and others. It was just so satisfying

Amanda Tate

We are seeing a lot of interest in the accessories.

Sibel Edmonds

When you think of al-Qaeda, you are not thinking of al-Qaeda in terms of one particular country, or one particular organization.

Jenni Allen

There is no preordained system of ranking of particular activities. Applications are weighed in total, and we don't privilege any one organization.

Kyle Williams

At a meet, if you need him in a particular event, he's there to step up and get points for you when you need them.

Tim Johnson

They seem to be targeting this particular group.

Jim Hackett

This particular trail is very heavily used, and the resurfacing is warranted.

Timothy Wu

This particular subpoena does not raise serious privacy issues.

David Strathairn

This movie isn't out to railroad you toward any particular bias, and that's where I think its power comes from,

Phil Klay

There's a very particular way that the military speaks. There's a lot of profanity and a lot of acronyms.

Scott Anderson

I try to find time to umpire and referee, but have had to reduce some of that, in particular the basketball.

Joseph Hume

So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced.

Oliver Goldsmith

Is he like Burke, who winds into a subject like a serpent?

Greg Brunner

You're going on a touchy subject for me here, man.

Arthur Schopenhauer

That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.

Elizabeth Bowen

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

Alton Brown

Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.

Stephen Chbosky

Movies, by nature, are not subjective, they're objective.

Soren Kierkegaard

Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

John Searle

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed

Larry Coker

We were totally inept, to put it bluntly.

Doug MacLean

Absolutely, absolutely, totally, totally false. I'm wondering how to say it any stronger.

Tom Petersen

They (the stores) don't have to be totally upscale, but we need some better things.

Helene Cixous

It is totally different from my philosophical work,

Shinji Mori

It's two totally different things. There was nothing wrong until I got injured.

Alan Mosley

This is totally unacceptable. This is going to have to be fixed, and right now.

Craig Venter

Once we all have our genomes, some of these extremely rare diseases are going to be totally predictable.

Amy Jordan

I wanted to do something totally out of the ordinary,

Calvin Klein

The woman is totally different. She's really sexy, she's really healthy, attractive. She's got a body,

Blaise Pascal

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

William Shakespeare

Alas, how love can trifle with itself!

Miguel de Cervantes

We must not stand upon trifles.

Emma Goldman

Let us not overlook vital things, because of the bulk of trifles confronting us.