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.

David Taras

Whoever wants to push him out would embarrass themselves.

Monte Towe

We didn't embarrass ourselves, but we didn't get the win, either, so I am disappointed.

Ray Moore

I don't want people to think this is a sleazy place. I'm not going to embarrass Liberty. I don't want a strip club, and you have my word that's not going to happen.

Chad Moeller

He's a great communicator and motivator. You know he's got your back. You know if he has something to do with you, it's going to be done in an office instead of in public. He's not there to embarrass you. He's got your back, and for that reason, you've got his.

Johnny Damon

I think it's going to be like the postseason. The last thing we want to do is embarrass our country.

Mark Goulston

The purpose of the quiz is not to shame or embarrass anyone, but to make sure everyone is on the same page.

Eric Johnson

He did not repeat the language that he used, which would embarrass me as an old salt.

Jerrold Nadler

He is unwilling to do anything that might embarrass the administration.

Mark Connor

He needs to recognize when he throws a good pitch, he doesn't need to throw a better one. You just have to get a hitter out, you don't have to embarrass him.

Inga Cadranel

When we were growing up, we had all these crazy, in-your-face guys around the house. For us, it was like, 'Ugh! Actors again.'

Ziggy Marley

Even if I wasn't in music, even if my father was a carpenter, some guy in Jamaica would go 'You're just like Bob. You're just like your father.' That happens in Jamaica all the time.

William E. Conway, Jr.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world, and I am going to give away every penny before I die.

Val Kilmer

I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.

Chuck Palahniuk

I get a lot of letters from women who insist that 'Fight Club' is not just a guy thing. They insist that women have the same rage and need the same outlet.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.'

will.i.am

When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.

Clay Shirky

Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem.

Evel Knievel

Nothing's worse than a guy who loses fair and square and then whines about it.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.

Phil Schiller

There were so many things of value in the original Mac that it is still recognizable.

Wally Schirra

John's going to get some unbelievable surprises, ... Some people get quite sick in space and it's quite normal. It's not a macho thing -- it's something that can happen.

Mitt Romney

I have a PC. My sons have a Mac and swear by it, but I have a couple PC's.

Steve Jobs

We know Mac OS X is not perfect,

Mike Wallace

Whether it's $200 or $300 is not going to matter. Nintendo and Microsoft are going to sell every machine they can put on the shelves.

Rick Cooper

Ninety-eight percent of the work is done by machine. Machines make up for 1,000 people.

Steve Ruggiero

For the slot machine manufacturers, Pennsylvania is a no-brainer.

Evel Knievel

I can't keep track of my hospital time. It all sort of blurs together.

Rosamund Pike

Looking back, I just think I was a really average sort of girl.

Peter Cardillo

We'll probably see some sort of a pullback.

John Byrd

We're waiting to see what happens. It's still sort of experimental.

Penn Badgley

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.

Pablo Schreiber

I got nominated for a Tony in my Broadway debut, which was fascinating and thrilling and sort of unbelievable all at the same time.

Peter Jackson

'Bad Taste' was - it was, in many respects, my sort of, my, I guess, my single-minded desire to want to break into the film industry when New Zealand didn't really have a film industry to break into.

Jay Frank

We have one person in custody. They are still trying to sort things out.

Glen Mathison

I think it would be irresponsible to speculate at all that this was some sort of attack.