Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woody Allen

See, I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because they, you know they crash their plane, they're self-destructive. But they crash into you, and you die along with them.

Vanessa Bayer

Sometimes the funniest people don't know that they're funny - like the administrators in my high school.

Robin Hobb

A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.

Virginia Woolf

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Samuel Smiles

Woman is the heart of humanity ... its grace, ornament, and solace.

Samuel Richardson

The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.

Salvador Dali

An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.

Robert E. Howard

Any but the most brutish of men must be touched with a certain awe or wonder at the baring of a woman's naked soul.

Willard Van Orman Quine

We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.

Poul Anderson

My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.

B. C. Forbes

The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

Otto von Bismarck

A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.

Joyce Meyer

When discipline is sown, like a good seed, it yields a harvest of things that fulfill and satisfy us-things that make us happy and release peace and joy in our lives.

Katharine Whitehorn

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.

John Denver

Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.

John Calvin

The poor yield to the rich, the common people to the upper ten, the servants to their masters, the ignorant to the scholars; but there is nobody who does not imagine that he is really better than others.

Malcolm Forbes

Generous gestures yield the most when that isn't their purpose.