Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

So one time when I was working in this motel one of the toilets leaked and I had to replace the flapper ball. Here's what it said on the package; I kept it till I knew it by heart: 'Please Note. Parts are included for all installations, but no installation requires all of the parts.' That's kind of my philosophy about men. I don't think there's an installation out there that could use all my parts.

Baruch Spinoza

I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.

Ayelet Waldman

Those of us whose parenting style can be described as "a series of reflexes, instincts, and minute-by-minute adjustments," as Julie of A Little Pregnant puts it, rather than as a philosophy, are less invested in our own practices. What we do is often less a matter of conviction than one of convenience. What we need to remember is that there is no need to apologize for that, even in the face of the most red-faced outrage.

Ayn Rand

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

Brian Henson

And again, we're kind of trying to be in that place, that's just so absurd and irreverent and hysterical and it's something that at our company we're kind of, we're so irreverent about everything, we're sort of irreverent about the establishment, we're irreverent about civilization, we're irreverent about philosophy, we're irreverent about religion.

Jamie Sives

I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it's been the right one for me.

Janis Ian

Truth is not the enemy and whatever does not kill us, sets us free.

Gary L. Francione

Not only are the philosophies of animal rights and animal welfare separated by irreconcilable differences... the enactment of animal welfare measures actually impedes the achievement of animal rights... Welfare reforms, by their very nature, can only serve to retard the pace at which animal rights goals are achieved.

Bob Dylan

If I lived my life by what others were thinkin', the heart inside me would've died.

Claude Debussy

The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.

Desmond Tutu

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

Roger Griffith

She is recognized, she is signing autographs, there are crowds forming. People know who she is. It is unbelievably exciting. This is what we dreamed it could be when we selected her.

Ben Agosto

It's been one of the most exciting things for us to see, in the years that we've been competing, the level of interest growing, crowds being bigger.

P. T. Barnum

Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.

Larry the Cable Guy

When I look at my audience, I can tell better who's in the crowd and the kind of joke I shouldn't do. It's just complicated. I guess I sift through to make sure these jokes are a little different with not such a harsh edge to them. That's pretty much how I handle the crowd.

Derek Schiller

It's too early to predict a sellout. But we're highly optimistic that we're going to set some really big crowds that are pro-Braves.

Jon Lucas

This time of year is usually slow in the gaming industry, so it would be nice to have a soft opening, but I have a feeling we're going to have a lot of attention. We'll have good crowds on New Year's.

Ed Sheeran

I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.

Deng Xiaoping

If the masses feel some anger, we must let them express it.

Dule Hill

I could spend a whole day at a spa. Id get a facial, a scalp rub, massages, then eat some grapes and be good to go.

Thomas Jefferson

Never put off your massage until tomorrow if you can get it today.

George W. Bush

Any outlaw regime that has ties to terrorist groups or seeks to possess weapons of mass destruction is a grave danger to the civilised world and will be confronted.

George W. Bush

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

Freema Agyeman

I only unwind at facials and massages.

Walter Jon Williams

The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.

Galileo Galilei

The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.