Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eddie Izzard

I saw something in a program on something in Miami, and they were saying, "We've redecorated this building to how it looked over 50 years ago!" And people were going, "No, surely not, no. No one was alive then."

David Hockney

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

Diablo Cody

There's something magical about spending a Sunday night watching real people at a deli, then watching fake people pretending to be real on TV, then engaging in (arguably) false interaction with (arguably) real people on the Internet. Never at any prior point in time has this been possible.

Cesar Romero

Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.

Betty Smith

I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.

William Shakespeare

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

Bertrand Russell

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Bryant H. McGill

We fake perfect so others don't have to experience any unpleasant realities, because their life is just as fake as ours.

Al Yankovic

You fake something until you're good at it.

Al Gore

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Janis Joplin

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

Anton Chekhov

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

Ben Hecht

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.

Daniel Schorr

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

Douglas Coupland

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

Aleister Crowley

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Adlai E. Stevenson

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

Dolly Parton

Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.

Dick Schaap

Sugar Ray and talked about doing some articles together or writing a book together but dealing with Sugar Ray was a lot like fighting him. He would fake you in and then he'd drop you.

Chuck Palahniuk

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.

Chuck Palahniuk

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

Chuck Klosterman

Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every comparison becomes impractical. This is why the impractical has become totally acceptable; impracticality almost seems cool.

Christopher Morley

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

Alice Cooper

He (Marilyn Manson) has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original.

Ann Wilson

You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair... If you're a woman it's even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s.

Alber Elbaz

In fashion, we have a reputation for being such a façade, fake people, but none of the fashion people who I know are fake.

Claire Bloom

You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.

Richard Bach

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

Robert Foster Bennett

If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.

Thomas Paine

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

Robert Kirkman

I'm only 24 so I like to think I'm still close enough to 17 to still remember what it was like. Besides, I could just fake it and get away with it... it's not like there are any teenagers that still read comics.

Raquel Welch

You can't fake listening. It shows.

Simone Weil

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.