Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian MacKaye

The archiving industry, much like the funeral industry and the wedding industry, these industries can be very exploitative.

Hugh Hefner

In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.

Hugh Jackman

If you get too heavy with the nods and winks, people get a sense that they're excluded from something. If they're in screenings and everyone's laughing, and they don't know what the hell it's about, somehow you feel excluded from the party, or like you're not in the inner circle. As a performer, that's the worst thing you can do to an audience. It's fun, but you have to be very careful with it.

Hugh Jackman

Boring' can be a lot of fun. Especially if it's on your own terms.

Horace Walpole

Oh, we are ridiculous animals; and if the angels have any fun in them, how we must divert them!

Horace Walpole

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

Homer

Good things don't end in -eum; they end in -mania or -teria.

Homer

We live in a society of laws. Why do you think I took you to all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well, I didn't hear anybody laughing, did you?

Homer

If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing.

If it is a matter of funding we could find funding to do that. It's just too important.

If I waive funding for one student, I would have to waive it for all,

Jamal Crawford

If he is (worried), he's not really showing it. He's real relaxed and having fun. He's happy to be here.

Gloria Swanson

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.

Gloria Steinem

The problem is, for men and women, the idea that sexuality is about dominance and submission, when, in fact, cooperation is a lot more fun, to put it my way. So some of it, a lot of it, is just about empathy.

Gloria Steinem

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

Gioachino Rossini

Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

Geraldine Ferraro

It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods.

Geraldo Rivera

I'm tired of getting made fun of.

Geraldo Rivera

If you think is was an accident, applaud.

Geraldo Rivera

I've never quite been a peer of Donald [Trump]. When I knew him it was more in a social way. We were single at kind of the same time. You know having fun in that sense, but I've watched his career with great admiration, and now to really see him as an employee sees him as an aspirant within the corporate structure of the Trump enterprises is really fascinating.

Harry S Truman

Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.

Harry S Truman

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

Harry S Truman

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

Harry S Truman

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Harland Williams

I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life.

J Mascis

It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion.

J. Maarten Troost

I had grown accustomed to life being interesting and adventure ridden and, rather childishly, I refused to believe that this must necessarily come to an end and that the rest of my life should be a sort of penance for all the reckless, irresponsible, and immensely fun things I’d done before.

J. L. Austin

But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.

J. L. Austin

Why should it not be the whole function of a word to denote many things?

J. Paul Getty

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

J. Paul Getty

Money isn't everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children.

J. Michael Straczynski

A story is a story is a story. The only difference is in the techniques you bring to bear. There are always limitations on what you can and can't do. But I enjoy that. Just like when you write a sonnet or haiku, there are rules you have to abide by. And to me, playing within the rules is the fun part. It keeps the brain fresh.