Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Hazlitt

Those who object to wit are envious of it.

Maurice Cheeks

In the NBA, it?s a little different. It?s more of a job. I?m sure some NBA players -- I know myself -- are a little envious of just the feeling of it all. It?s a great feeling watching those players, the way they feel -- the feeling that comes out when they lose a game, the feeling that comes out when they win a game. It?s a great thing to watch.

Michael Keaton

I'm envious of writers and musicians. I think it must be so difficult. Not just the frustration, but the discipline.

Johnny Depp

You will not like me. The gentlemen will be envious and the ladies will be appalled.

William Shenstone

Sloth views the towers of Fame with envious eyes,Desirous still, still impotent to rise.

William Shenstone

Sloth views the towers of Fame with envious eyes, Desirous still, still impotent to rise.

Lloyd Bridges

As time went on, I got envious and wanted to do a lot of stunts myself

Frank Tyger

You can't be envious and happy at the same time

Jaime Ray Newman

I'm always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it is really fun playing lots of different characters.

Andruw Jones

Hank Aaron's in the Hall of Fame; it's a good record. But I don't worry about it. My goal this year was not to hit 40 home runs, but just to improve my consistency. When the season's over, that's when I'll look at that stuff.

Michael Irvin

He's a lock for the Hall of Fame.

Keith Jones

He seems to be a genuine person, what you see is what you get. I don't think fame was as important to him as family.

Gary Hatch

He's been one of my hall of fame guys. Stephen worked his tail off to become a starter. It didn't happen until his senior year.

Jerry Colangelo

He was looking though the glass at the photos that were up on the wall in their hall of fame. He said, 'Dad, I want to come here and do what you did to follow you.' I said, 'No, Bryan. That was my life. You're going to have to live your own life.

Ernie Harwell

He is a Hall of Fame broadcaster, and a Hall of Fame friend.

Rob Halford

I would love to be in the Hall Of Fame.

Richard O'Brien

I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.

Russell Brand

I'm famous now. But now that I've got fame and some of the other things I thought would make me happy - it ain't worked

Warren Buffett

Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style. The exception was Wells Fargo, a superbly-managed, high-return banking operation in which we increased our ownership to just under 10%, the most we can own without the approval of the Federal Reserve Board.

Warren Buffett

Lethargy, bordering on sloth should remain the cornerstone of an investment style.

Warren Buffett

Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process.

Wendy Wasserstein

Sloth is the fastest-growing lifestyle movement in the world, and that's because it is completely doable. If you embrace sloth, it's the last thing you'll ever have to do again.

Samuel Johnson

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.

Samuel Johnson

It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.

Yann Martel

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

Larry David

My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.

Leo Tolstoy

You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!

Marco Rubio

Just like Trump Tower, he [Donald Trump] must have hired a foreign worker to do his own tweets.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats.

Anthony Trollope

Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.

Clive James

Jack Aubrey is a tremendous tower of strength and you always want to read about him.

Thomas Gray

Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, With many a foul and midnight murder fed.

Stephen King

I hold to no God," Roland said. "I hold to the Tower, and won't pray to that.

Philippe Petit

Right after my Twin Towers walk, I was approached by hundreds of people, and I said no to all the offers. I could have become a millionaire overnight, obviously, but I said no, and I continue to be uninterested.

Harry Seidler

I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.

J. R. R. Tolkien

And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy?

Robert Collier

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Rob Zombie

When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

Richard P. Feynman

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

Richard Dawkins

We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.

Richard Whately

Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term.

Richelle Mead

We've had to deal with so many complications. We're still dealing with them. And what can we do? Nothing - well, unless we take your side's point of view and make deals with the devil. But why? Why can't we make deals with God? People do all the time. 'God, if you do this for me, I promise to be good.' Stuff like that. Yeah, but I don't see any contracts like you guys have. No hard evidence that it works. How come we can only get things we want by being bad? Why can't we get them by being good?

Rose Kennedy

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

Tyler Cowen

My view of the internet is that it is way overrated in what it’s done to date but considerably underrated in what it will do.