Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gretchen Rubin

I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly

Gretchen Rubin

What's fun for other people may not be fun for you- and vice versa.

Gretchen Rubin

I'm doing a lot of speaking and talking about habits, which is this subject that obsesses me. That's a lot of fun.

Gretchen Rubin

One of the things that surprised me the most is how often we assume that because something's fun for someone else, it makes somebody else happy, it will make us happy.

Gordon B. Hinckley

All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea.

Gordon B. Hinckley

In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.

Geri Halliwell

Yes, Sept 11th was unfortunate

Gerard Butler

I know I have within myself... a side of solitude. I think people who know me can see, but people who just meet me can't because I'm generally very fun and gregarious. I love to spend a lot of time on my own. I can seriously go into my own head and often love to let myself travel where I don't know where I'm going. I always felt that that was his kind of form of escape, in a way.

Gerard Butler

Theres a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role or an action-adventure or a real tough-guy role.

Gerard Butler

I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals.

Herman Melville

Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

I'll have that one, please.

Henry David Thoreau

Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.

Henry David Thoreau

Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.

Henry David Thoreau

When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey, etc, etc - I cannot but feel as I lived in a tamed, and, as it were, emasculated country.

Henry David Thoreau

I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

Henry David Thoreau

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

Henry David Thoreau

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

Henry David Thoreau

Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.

Henry David Thoreau

Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm.

H. L. Hunt

If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the beginning of the day.

Gypsy Rose Lee

The dog is dressed just like me at the climax of my act.

H. L. Mencken

Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.

H. L. Mencken

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

H. L. Mencken

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

H. L. Mencken

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

H. L. Mencken

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

H. L. Mencken

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

H. L. Mencken

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

H. L. Mencken

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Jill Wagner

I think that people love Wipeout simply because its just plain, simple fun.

Jillian Michaels

Many different factors make up a fitness phenomenon, but the most critical are a sense of community, a ton of fun, a sense of accomplishment, and an empowering component that makes people feel they can become or do anything they want.