Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Mankoff

Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes.

Wilfrid Sheed

Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.

Winston Churchill

No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives.

Libba Bray

If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didn’t plan to ask for either one.

Mike Huckabee

Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.

John Green

Youth is counted sweetest by those who are no longer young.

Shania Twain

Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind

Joshua Foer

How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to the human being across from us who is talking with us, by being so lazy that we're not willing to process deeply?

Larry McMurtry

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

Keith Haring

I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that.

Keith Haring

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.

Joe Henderson

I was joking but he took responded seriously: 'I would know, and I couldn't live with myself knowing that I'd only run 97 miles or whatever.'

Adrian Belew

King Crimson will soon be touring parts of Europe.

Ken Mehlman

Kerry's political attacks are not supported by reality, which shows rising employment and higher wages, and his policies -- higher taxes, increased regulation and bigger government -- would move America backward.

Amy Walter

Kerry's focus and his message has really been middle class, middle America, 'I'm standing up for the little guy' and middle class investors respond to that, but that raises the question of how do you go back and talk to the business community after that.

Colleen Atwood

Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were.

Judith Krantz

Knowing what I do now, I certainly wouldn't decide to write a first novel because I wouldn't have anything like the necessary life experience.

Carol Foreman

Kids are healthier these days... more kids are in school around the world, and partly that's because Australians have been willing to invest in aid.

Philippe Starck

Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary,

Mahathir Mohamad

Currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and totally immoral. It should be stopped.

Stephen Hawking

Theology is unnecessary.

Stephen Hawking

Science makes god unnecessary.

Sun Tzu

The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Florynce Kennedy

When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive

Enya

I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.

Buzz Bissinger

Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.