Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Gambon

I just hate the idea of being well known. I know that is almost impossible if you're an actor who has done okay, but I've always fought against it.

Michael Chiklis

I don't have hate in my heart. I don't hate any person, place or thing...but I hate the Yankees.

Michael Chabon

I hate to see great works of literature ghettoized, whereas others that conform to the rules, conventions, and procedures of the genre we call literary fiction get accorded greater esteem and privilege. I also have a problem with how books are marketed, with certain cover designs and typefaces. They're often stamped with an identity that has nothing to do with their effect on the reader.

Mia Wasikowska

I hate the feeling when I'm overseas, away from Australia, that I'm trapped, blocked by an ocean from getting to the people I love. That gives me anxiety.

Michel Houellebecq

The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.

Michel Houellebecq

In reality, the monotheist texts preach neither peace, love nor tolerance. They are texts of hate.

Michel Gondry

I don't like movies that are too manipulative. A lot of movies thrive on really pushing your buttons and making you hate the villain.

Michael K. Powell

We think the whole world's going to change, and forget that human beings are still human beings; we have the same five senses, we still interact the same way, we still love and hate the same way, but marketers lose track of that. But then it comes down to earth.

Michael Josephson

The key to a better life: Complain less, appreciate more. Whine less, laugh more. Talk less, listen more. Want less, give more. Hate less, love more. Scold less, praise more. Fear less, hope more.

Michael Jordan

I hate being out there with those garbage men. They don't get you the ball.

Michael Jordan

You have to be able to say, OK, that happened back then. Now let's take it from here and see what happens. It would be very easy to hate people for the rest of your life, and some people have done that. You've got to deal with what's happening now and try to make things better.

Martha Plimpton

I hate those people who say 'I don't own a television' - I own one and I watch it whenever I can.

Martha Plimpton

I would almost rather be in debt constantly than work with horrible people that I hate.

Martha Stewart

I live in an old house with no closets and no built-ins. I hate big cupboards.

Mark Potok

Hate speech is in the ear of the beholder.

Patricia McCormick

Long time I been on my own, but now really I'm alone. I survive the killing, the starving, all the hate of the Khmer Rouge, but I think maybe now I will die of this, of broken heart.

Oscar Wilde

You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden...

Oscar Wilde

Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

Oscar Wilde

A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.

Mae West

I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

Madonna Ciccone

In our house we don't use words like "despise" and 'hate,' we say "strongly dislike."

Madonna Ciccone

I hate polite conversation. I hate it when people stand around and go, 'Hi, how are you?' I hate words that don't have any reason or meaning. Also I hate it when people smoke in elevators and closed in places. It's just so rude.

Madonna Ciccone

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

Lydia Lunch

There is so much in the world to hate, why hate yourself?

Lykke Li

I hate the fact you always feel like you have to be going somewhere, like the end destination is to be finished, or to be happy. But the truth is a lot of us are completely lost, and we don’t know, and that is also a state of mind, to not know who you are and where you’re going.

L'Wren Scott

I hate how when I have a bunch of events going on and I have to get my hair done so much, [then] I have to wash it more often. It's definitely better not to.

Lucille Ball

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

Lucius Accius

Let people hate you so long as they fear you.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Man hardly comes in more than two varieties, wherever he is, whatever he does: workers and pimps ... they're either one or the other! ... and inventors, the worst kind of jobholder! ... they stand condemned! ... the writer who doesn't pimp along, peacefully plagiarizing, who doesn't pump out the pop stuff, he's had it! ... everybody hates him!

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.