Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eddie Murphy

Every bad decision I've made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects and you don't turn down money there. You take it, because you never know when it's all going to end. I made Cop III because they offered me $15 million. That $15 million was worth having Roger Ebert's thumb up my ass.

Ben Casnocha

Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.

Adam Schiff

Too much under the thumb of the Iranians.

Anne Sexton

Thumbs grow into my throat. I wear slaps like a spot of rouge.

David Lynch

If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.

Thomas Sowell

As a rule of thumb. Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan.

Tom Lehrer

Counting in octal is just likst counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs.

John Podhoretz

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

Isaac Newton

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

Alan Greenspan

The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I can zero in on a vision of where I want to be in the future. I can see it so clearly in front of me, when I daydream, it's almost a reality. Then I get this easy feeling, and I don't have to be uptight to get there because I already feel like I'm there, that it's just a matter of time.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.

I wasn't the greatest reporter in the world, but I wasn't starting at zero.

Ted Turner

Women? I love women. Life would have been virtually zero without them. Journalism? I really feel like I am a journalist... And courage? I had a boat named Courageous.

Bill Nighy

Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you've had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you're a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.

Alan Shepard

We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope with accelerations and decelerations and so on. So all of us trained so that we were probably in the best physical condition we had ever been in up until that point.

Charlaine Harris

Ha," I said. "Oh, ha-ha. Yeah, ’cause they love me. You see how many vampires are up here? Zero, right?" One," said Eric, stepping out of the stairwell.

Camille Paglia

In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

Catherynne M. Valente

I am a Prince," he replied, being rather dense. "It is the function of a Prince—value A—to kill monsters—value B—for the purpose of establishing order—value C—and maintaining a steady supply of maidens—value D. If one inserts the derivative of value A (Prince) into the equation y equals BC plus CD squared, and sets it equal to zero, giving the apex of the parabola, namely, the point of intersection between A (Prince) and B (Monster), one determines value E—a stable kingdom. It is all very complicated, and if you have a chart handy I can graph it for you.