Famous Quotes & Sayings

You'll look like you have lead weights strapped to your feet, ... The higher the heel, the more shape you're going to get to your calf.

Saddam Hussein

Will the performance of one who has sat an examination and passed it be higher and better, or lower and lesser?

Stewart Baker

Wiretapping has a long history of enthusiastic use in France.

We were looking for numbers of just over 7 percent growth. Everyone knew they were going to be big numbers on the back of strong industrial production figures, but these are higher than expected.

Russell Allen

We put a big sign in the window and hired a broker, so it's not like there was some secret deal.

We proved that we could play at high level. We can only get better from here.

H. G. Wells

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

Jay-Z

Got some, dirt on my shoulder, could you brush it off for me?

Jay London

I went out with a promiscuous impressionist. She did everybody.

Byron White

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

Ethan Coen

The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities.

What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket.

Ernest Renan

Getting its history wrong is part of being a nation.

Ernest Bevin

A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.

George Canning

I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.

Christina Aguilera

I wouldn't feel right wearing clothes covering my body.

Christian Louboutin

For me there ain't no high heel high enough.

Christian Louboutin

What is sexual in a high heel is the arch of the foot, because it is exactly the position of a woman's foot when she orgasms... So putting your foot in a heel, you are putting yourself in a possibly orgasmic situation.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

History does not belong to us; we belong to it.

Hal Borland

He who travels west travels not only with the sun but with history.

Herman Melville

If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet.

Henry David Thoreau

There is no history of how bad became better.

Henry David Thoreau

Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.

Henry David Thoreau

We perceive that the schemers return again and again to common sense and labor. Such is the evidence of history.

Henry David Thoreau

All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.

Henry David Thoreau

Going from--toward; it is the history of every one of us.

H. L. Mencken

On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.

Gretel Ehrlich

History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.

Hugh Blair

As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.

Hannah Arendt

The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time.

Guy de Maupassant

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

Jackie Evancho

My parents are OK with me wearing a small heel, up to 1.5 inches high. Heels give me height when I wear such long dresses. For me, they complete the outfit.

James Gleick

The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.