Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Dr. Seuss

I am weird, you are weird. Everyone in this world is weird. One day two people come together in mutual weirdness and fall in love.

Dr. Seuss

People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.

Dr. Seuss

Sometimes you will never know the value of something,until it becomes a memory.

Dorothy Fields

I'm in the mood for love, simply because you're near me. Funny, but when you're near me I'm in the mood for love.

Dorothy Dunnett

Only common mortals like the Somervilles have good old rotten hates, dear,' said her mother. 'Sir Graham manages to love everybody and wouldn't know what you're talking about. Have a bun.' 'He doesn't love the Turks,' said Philippa. 'He kills them.' 'That isn't hate,' said Kate Somerville. 'That's simply hoeing among one's principles to keep them healthy and neat. I'm sure he would tell you he bears them no personal grudge; and they think they're going to Paradise anyway, so it does everyone good.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

Dorothy Day

The only solution is love.

Dorothy Day

The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Tommy Lee

That's the good part of having my past follow me, is that sometimes some of that stuff can help.

Tommy Lee Jones

My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.

Tom Wolfe

a perception of the cosmic unity of this higher level. And a feeling of timelessness, the feeling that what we know as time is only the result of a naive faith in causality - the notion that A in the past caused B in the present, which will cause C in the future, when actually A, B, and C are all part of a pattern that can be truly understood only by opening the doors of perception and experiencing it... in this moment... this supreme moment... this Kairos.

Steven Spielberg

I did not make this film about Frank Abagnale because of what he did . . but because of what he has done with his life the past 30 years.

Steven Johnson

Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about declining standards and dumbing-down, you have to do more intellectual work to make sense of today's television or games - much less the internet - than you did a few decades ago.

Steven Erikson

Ben Adaephon Delat," Pearl said plaintively, "see the last who comes. You send me to my death." "I know," Quick Ben whispered. "Flee, then. I will hold them enough to ensure your escape no more." Quick Ben sank down past the roof. Before he passed from sight Pearl spoke again. "Ben Adaephon Delat, do you pity me?" "Yes" he replied softly, then pivoted and dropped down into darkness.

Steve Martin

The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.

Steve Berry

It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.

Conor McGregor

I try to eat healthy all the time. I don't eat takeaways. I drink mostly water or coconut water.

Alan Watts

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

Sonia Sotomayor

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Victoria Woodhull

Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.

Laura Schlessinger

I'm not good at debating - I'm much better at pontificating.

Laura Schlessinger

I'm so happy, I can hardly spit.

Laura Schlessinger

If your life is going to be dictated by what's comfortable, your life will stink.

Laura Schlessinger

If you want a weak man, you might as well marry a woman.

Laura Schlessinger

I think I average one good sulk a week.

Laura Schlessinger

I haven't yelled at anybody today. It's been a slow day.

Laura Riding

Women, ever since there have been women, have had a way of being people.