Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Benn

I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.

Simone de Beauvoir

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

Simon Schama

Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is... difficult to think of a single natural system that has not, for better or worse, been substantially modified by human culture. The cultural habits of humanity have always made room for the sacredness of nature.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Mr. Speaker. I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member may place the punctuation where he pleases.

Tippi Hedren

Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older.

Tippi Hedren

One lion thinks it's just hilarious to tackle us. He's very funny about it... and we always know when it will happen.

Tippi Hedren

Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.

Robert A. Heinlein

Are you trying to tell all of us we have a bad signal-to-noise ratio?

Robert A. Heinlein

Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.

Robert A. Heinlein

If I had a Boy Scout I could make a fire by rubbing his hind legs together.

Robert A. Heinlein

There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled Nature.'" The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of "Nature" : but beavers and their dams are.

Rita Coolidge

Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Sophia Loren

Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.

Ruby Wax

I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced

Ross MacDonald

Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

Rosie Perez

In my circle of friends, I've always been loud and funny and talkative. But as soon as I step out of that circle, I get very quiet and introspective. I don't want the spotlight on me.

Ross Perot

This planet is our home. If we destroy the planet, we've destroyed our home, so it is fundamentally important.

Roger Daltrey

There is certainly more in the future now than back in 1964.

Rush Limbaugh

You know how old I am? I'm so old, I remember when Letterman used to be funny and it was presidents who were serious. That's how old I am.

Thomas Carlyle

A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.

Thomas Carlyle

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

Thomas Carlyle

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

Tommy Lasorda

I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.

Tommy Lasorda

I walk into the clubhouse today and it's like walking into the Mayo Clinic. We have four doctors, three therapists and five trainers. Back when I broke in, we had one trainer who carried a bottle of rubbing alcohol, and by the 7th inning he'd already drunk it.

Tommy Lasorda

Talking about your troubles is no good. Eighty percent of your friends don't care and the rest are glad.

Tom Wolfe

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Tom Waits

On my gravestone, I want it to say, "I told you I was sick."

Tom Waits

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

Tom Shales

"More fun than a barrel of monkeys." Has anyone ever stopped to think how cranky, if not downright vicious, a barrelful of monkeys would be, especially once released from the barrel?

Tom Sizemore

It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit.

Steven Spielberg

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

Steve Nash

I'm not going to retire because I want the money. We want honest athletes, but at the same time, you're going to have people saying, 'He's so greedy. He's made X amount of money, and he has to take that last little bit.' Yes, I do have to take that last little bit. I'm sorry if that is frustrating to some, but if they were in my shoes, they would do exactly the same thing.

Steve Martin

I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.