Famous Quotes & Sayings

Boethius

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

Edmund Spenser

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

Amy Sedaris

I really don't like going out. I don't like restaurants because I don't like the idea of someone, a waitress, being responsible for my evening. I like seconds, and more, and lots of conversation, and I've always hated the idea that in a restaurant an evening just ends. I find that incredibly depressing.

Steve Jobs

It's not like Windows users don't have any power. I think they are happy with Windows, and that's an incredibly depressing thought

Matt Ridley

Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will.

Meg Cabot

It's kind of depressing, if you think about it. I mean, me being so young, and yet so cynical and suspicious.

Meg Cabot

Why should women have to fit into child sizes in order to be considered desirable? That is both sick and depressing.

Max Beckmann

It is, of course, a luxury to create art and, on top of this, to insist on expressing one's own artistic opinion. Nothing is more luxurious than this. It is a game and a good game, at least for me; one of the few games which make life, difficult and depressing as it is sometimes, a little more interesting.

Martin Scorsese

Actually, I was rock climbing on this film at 7 in the morning. It was quite unique! But in any event, the colour of the leaves disturbed me so we had to work on that. On the other hand, I didn't want to drench it in a kind of depressing tone.

Al Capone

Vote early and vote often.

Donald Barthelme

HENRY: Now it is necessary to court her, and win her, and put on this clean dressing gown, and cut my various nails, and drink something that will kill the millions of germs in my mouth, and say something flattering, and be witty and bonny, and hale and kinky, all just to ease this wrinkle in the groin. It seems a high price.

Tom Stoppard

The days of the digital watch are numbered.

Tom Stoppard

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

Tina Fey

Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.

George Eliot

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

Fionnula Flanagan

I think Irish women are strong as horses, incredibly loyal and for the most part, funny, witty, bright and optimistic in the face of devastating reality.

Henry Miller

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

George Eliot

Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Burt Reynolds

All you really have in the end are your stories.

Charles Colson

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

Eduardo Galeano

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

Tom T. Hall

I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.

Tibor Kalman

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.

S. Robson Walton

I went to Vortex and Vortex is a whole 'nother story.

Stephen Chbosky

Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it's no excuse.

Stephen Chbosky

The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. they had become stories