Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Chris Stapleton

I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville.

Cate Blanchett

It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.

Carine Roitfeld

I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally.

Ron Shock

It has been a wonderful life for me. It's just been a blessing. I can't say I would have done it any other way. I have no regrets. I like what I do.

Rob Sheffield

'Revenge' is a shameless soap in the style of Eighties shoulder-pad slap-offs like 'Dallas,' 'Dynasty' and 'Falcon Crest.' Yet there's no wink-wink camp.

William Shenstone

Anger and the thirst of revenge are a kind of fever; fighting and lawsuits, bleeding,--at least, an evacuation. The latter occasions a dissipation of money; the former, of those fiery spirits which cause a preternatural fermentation.

Ricardo Montalban

Revenge is a dish best served cold

Robert Crumb

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

Samuel Johnson

To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.

Walt Whitman

God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.

Wislawa Szymborska

The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.

Wes Craven

I did have the resource of having taught Greek mythology and the history of Western civilization, and you can go back into the plays of Aeschylus and follow what happens when people seek revenge, and there are people plucking their eyes out. And Greek mythology is filled with all kinds of monsters and whatnot.

Yukio Mishima

I had long since insisted upon interpreting the things that Fate forced me to do as victories of my own will and intelligence, and now this bad habit had grown into a sort of frenzied arrogance. In the nature of what I was calling my intelligence there was a touch of something illegitimate, a touch of the sham pretender who has been placed on the throne by some freak chance. This dolt of a usurper could not foresee the revenge that would inevitably be wreaked upon his stupid despotism.

William Wallace

Incompetence is often highly regarded in governmental circles.

Robert Jordan

The Empress will follow where you go," she said. "So she will," Mat said. "As I'll follow where she goes, I suppose. I hope that doesn't lead us in too many circles.

Neale Donald Walsch

It graduates to 'our state is better than your state,' and 'our nation is better than your nation.' And it circles all the way around to where it started: 'Our God is better than your God.'

Joseph Addison

Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in.

Jonathan Swift

I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Inflation is probably the most important single factor in that vicious circle wherein one kind of government action makes more and more government control necessary. For this reason all those who wish to stop the drift toward increasing government control should concentrate their effort on monetary policy.

Friedrich Schiller

In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.

Sara Jones

Take it double time. Four circles left, four circles right.

Ann Snyder

It's hysterical to watch, as long as you're out of range, ... When they get excited they run around in circles doing one handstand after another.