Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Ball

Life is infinitely complex, and I feel like we live in a culture that really seems to want to simplify it into sound bites and bromides, and that does not work.

E. O. Wilson

She'd fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites

Emily Mortimer

I went to dinner with my mother-in-law and I just realized I was talking in sound bites to her and expecting her to laugh every time I said anything or be jotting something down in a notebook. So you have to kind of really have a talk with yourself after you've done a press tour and say, 'Chill out!'

English 16th Century Proverbs

A woman and a ship ever want mending.

Turkish Proverbs

Do what your teacher says but not what he does.

English 16th Century Proverbs

The tongue always returns to the sore tooth.

Turkish Proverb

If you are an anvil, be patient; if you are a hammer, be strong.

Arianna Huffington

Failure is not the opposite to success, it's a stepping stone to success. If our primary goal is to be approved of, then we are not going to take risks, we are not going to speak out, we are going to try to blend in.

Sonia Rykiel

Even if I'm in Japan and I don't speak Japanese and the woman facing me doesn't speak French but she's dressed in Rykiel, and she recognizes me, then we have a common language right away.

Gene Robinson

I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.

George W. Bush

My views are one that speaks to freedom.

Darian Townes

It's my first time to see him in person. I'm going to take some of what he speaks about and try to put it in my game.

Seth Vining

That speaks well of the team. But we still have a lot of work to do.

Chanakya

The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.

Chaka Khan

It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers.

Camille Paglia

We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first century. The reluctance of liberal professors to speak out against rampant abuses committed on their side (e.g., suppression of free speech, the excesses of women's studies and French theory) has simply increased the power of the right.

Brigid Brophy

We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over.

E. B. White

Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.

Anne Sexton

Let there be seasons so that our tongues will be rich in asparagus and limes.

Red Smith

The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.

Rumi

Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer.

Ray Bradbury

Those women like to see their tongues dance.

Matthew Hale

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.

Jennifer Weiner

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

Nancy Cartwright

I will not do that thing with my tongue