Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy.

Petra Haden

Old film-noir movies. There's something comforting about watching black-and-white movies, and hearing this kind of music just puts me in a fantasy world. It's a really great escape for me.

We have had disappointing data in the United States this week and in the euro zone we have had comforting news. If we get a weak GDP number no one would want to hold onto long dollar positions next week.

It is comforting to know that you have found a lawyer.

I could see the unimaginable destruction, and then I saw those comforting hands.

I feel really good about this. It gives me a comforting feeling knowing he wants me in the game. I've been shooting well in practice, but I just rush my shots when I get into the game. Obviously I haven't been scoring much. I think I was just more relaxed.

Carl Sagan

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.

Don Wallace

We are lucky to have two strong lawmakers like Simpson and Peterson looking out for America's sugar producers and the policy on which they depend. Some sugar policy opponents want to put sugar farmers out of business, and it's comforting to know that our elected representatives will not let that happen.

William Shakespeare

There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.

Michael Keaton

If I'm going to meditate, there is a little church up in Montecito, California. It's an old Spanish mission, actually. I find it comforting in there.

Bill Watterson

Few things are less comforting than a tiger who's up too late.

Jason Bateman

It is one of the few elements in the process that a director really, really can't control: an actor's performance. If you have a director that understands that, it's comforting to an actor. You're starting the relationship more as a collaborator, rather than as an employee or some kind of a soldier trying to execute something you don't organically feel.

Eckhart Tolle

A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.

Jane Kaczmarek

There's something about this place, about Madison and Wisconsin and the Midwest, that's really comforting, ... Malcolm in the Middle.

Dean Koontz

The broom wasn't as comforting as a flamethrower would have been, but it was better than a mop and certainly more threatening than a feather duster.

Craig Ferguson

I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could be done, and, after all, many of them were recovering alcoholics themselves.

Vanessa Minnillo

It's a comforting thought to know that I've got my partner by my side walking through life and all the ups and the downs. I know we can handle it. There's nothing too big or too crazy that's going to tear us apart.

Today's market is comforting in that it's back a bit, but it just doesn't have the feel of yesterday having made a bottom.

Just for six weeks, one time. A lighthouse keeps sailors from danger, to navigate from danger out there. The light is a comforting thing to see.

Kids find the setting of limits comforting and soothing. They need to know that (the parent is) in control.

Alice Sebold

In this deeply nuanced portrait of an American family, Bret Anthony Johnston fearlessly explores the truth behind a mythic happy ending. In Remember Me Like This, Johnston presents an incisive dismantling of an all-too-comforting fallacy: that in being found we are no longer lost.

Jean Schmidt

The fact that a lot of legislators live here makes it comforting to me,

Colin Powell

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.

May you, my friend, find God sends comforting warmth, to speed you back to your rekindled and welcoming hearth.

David Nicholls

…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.

Helen Keller

It gives me a deep comforting sense that "things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

Tommy Bowden

That's a pretty comforting feeling, as far as going in there knowing you're probably going to get three points.

The lake doesn't have a bacterial problem. That's the most comforting thing.

Lofa Tatupu

It's comforting to know that you are not in one of those dictatorships, where you just fall in line. He lets the players know he's there for them.

It's comforting to know that we have a replacement of the quality of Nicky.

Adam Kennedy

It's very comforting to look in today's starters and see his name.

Raymond Aubrac

It's very comforting to know that you are faced with a difficult job. If someone gives you a job which shows every sign of being easy, then you are a prisoner of effortlessness.

Willie Randolph

It's very comforting to have him. He wants to be the best, and we're glad to have him.