Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thornton Wilder

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

Thornton Wilder

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

Thornton Wilder

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

Thornton Wilder

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.

Thomas Wolfe

Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.

Walter Wager

I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.

Walter Wager

I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.

Richard Wright

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.

Richard Wright

Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.

Timothy Noah

The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.

Ice Cube

South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out.

Will Sergeant

I am into drones and one chord freak outs and the paintings I am into are more minimal things the New York colour field painters and the soviet schools of the early/mid 20th century suprematism and constructionism.

Venus Williams

No TV, no acting for me. I'm kind of a more behind-the-scenes kind of woman even though what I do is very public. I'm really low-key and I don't need to be the center of attention.

Chuck Palahniuk

Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the king, but it's not the king any more.

Zubin Mehta

I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European.

Nik Nanos

The polling shows there's a very clear gender gap on this. It shows 52 per cent of men support more nuclear power while only 30 per cent of women want more nuclear power.

Doug Beard

The people at the Bradley Center have been tremendous to work with. Our event management experience certainly comes into play.

Ann Smith

The pen and pencil of the 21st century is the computer.

Colm Meaney

Which is good, in a way, because the danger in doing something like STAR TREK is that you end up in that pigeonhole and you're doing that the rest of your life.

Fred Wilson

The only dangerous hurricanes so far are the ones we've been drinking.

Fred Wilson

The only dangerous hurricanes so far are the ones we've been drinking. We can't get out, so we might as well have fun.

Leon Mbangwa

The patient is not in danger at all.

Bridget Kelly

Paris is a danger for people like me. We spend our rent money in Paris on clothes.

Bee Wilson

The danger of growing up surrounded by endless sweet and salty industrial concoctions is not that we are innately incapable of resisting them but that the more frequently we eat them, especially in childhood, the more they train us to expect all food to taste this way.

Walter Kirn

Statistics on the dangers guns pose to the health of their owners and those who live with them suggest that I'd be safer selling my guns than reserving them for 'Tombstone II.'

Nina Easton

I think the danger with the liberal Left is seeing the Republican Party as a monolith.

Oenone Wood

That was a very dangerous moment. Amber's a strong rider and she's won races like that before. The Germans did what they had to do, or maybe she might have been gone.

Thomas Tusser

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Bible Bible

He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.

Lord Chesterfield

Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools

Golda Meir

Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness

Benjamin Franklin

We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.

Nolan Bushnell

I never, ever, saw the evil Steve Jobs. He was always the most well-mannered and respectful guy I knew. And we got to be pretty good friends. He didn't suffer fools gladly. I guess he didn't think I was a fool.

Persius

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

Benjamin Franklin

Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enought to be honest

Joyce Kilmer

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Gin Wigmore

It's easy listening to a record, but a live performance is so personal and real.

Wentworth Miller

When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.'

Brian Harvey

I asked the question, 'Will I ever perform again?'

Brendon Urie

You can't just be a musician; you have to be an entertainer and perform and act just to hit the bar.

Viktor Vekselberg

My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.

Neal Asher

I have had periods when I've overused a word, 'candent' being one example, but I'm trying not to do that any more.

Ramana Maharshi

I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.

Carrie Preston

Alan Cumming is such an amazing performer and person.

David Bell

The Astros aren't going to win the rest of the way. We have a chance.

Peter O'Toole

There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.

Lee Humphrey

We've got some time to rest up. I think we'll be fine.

Larry Bowa

(Johnny) Damon and (Derek) Jeter won't need much coaching. They know how to run the bases. The rest of them will need a stop sign now and then.

Dwayne Hickman

Little did I know then that I would be tied to that role the rest of my life!

Robert Lang

It does get you going for the rest of the season.

Kerry Healey

I think I need to rest up for the big day.

Kathleen Blanco

We have to restore the state and its people. This is important work you're about.

Eric Brown

We're not trying to say these things aren't available. We didn't want to restrict the player.