Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Riordan

Imitation is flattery

William Shenstone

Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.

Samuel Johnson

He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself.

William Feather

Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it....

William Hazlitt

There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.

Joseph Addison

The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.

Jorge Luis Borges

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

Jonathan Swift

Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.

Nick Lachey

It?s like, 'Surely this is going to be the last one? This will be the last one.' And they just keep putting them out. But I guess in some strange, twisted way it?s a form of flattery in that people are interested in what?s going on with us. But it is frustrating.

David Mellor

Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

Princess Diana

I'm as thick as a plank.

Luis Suarez

I've been booed in Holland and in Uruguay - as a professional footballer, you need to have thick skin and just get used to it.

Dave Craig

We also had to sandblast the floor, which is a 2-inch thick tile.

Jeremy Gilley

I always thought I was really thick.

J. K. Rowling

How thick can you get?

Bryce Dallas Howard

I'm a little Type A, and I have this really thick binder whenever I do a movie where I make a million notes, and in between takes, I'm checking it out.

Julie Harris

I liked Live and Let Die, where money was no object.

Hasso Plattner

Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects.

Thomas P. Campbell

Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions - the objects in museums are real. It's a way to get away from the overload of digital technology.

Henry Grunwald

A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.

Andre Bazin

Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.

Swami Vivekananda

Neither object nor time off, put up with what comes.

Thomas Carlyle

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning.

Roland Barthes

The Text is not a definitive object.

Martin Puryear

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.