Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Mikes

The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.

G. H. Hardy

Good work is not done by 'humble' men

G. H. Hardy

Good work is no done by "humble" men. It is one of the first duties of a professor, for example, in any subject, to exaggerate a little both the importance of his subject and his own importance in it. A man who is always asking "Is what I do worth while?" and "Am I the right person to do it?" will always be ineffective himself and a discouragement to others. He must shut his eyes a little and think a little more of his subject and himself than they deserve. This is not too difficult: it is harder not to make his subject and himself ridiculous by shutting his eyes too tightly.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you.

Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.

George W. Bush

It was just inebriating what Midland was all about then.

George W. Bush

The only thing I know about Slovakia is what I learned first-hand from your foreign minister, who came to Texas.

George W. Bush

It's my first trip as president of the United States.

George W. Bush

I don't remember debates. I don't think we spent a lot of time debating it. Maybe we did, but I don't remember.

George W. Bush

I read the newspaper.

George W. Bush

Governor Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure.

George W. Bush

I hope we get to the bottom of the answer. It's what I'm interested to know.

George W. Bush

This is a world that is much more uncertain than the past. In the past we were certain, we were certain it was us versus the Russians in the past. We were certain, and therefore we had huge nuclear arsenals aimed at each other to keep the peace. That's what we were certain of... You see, even though it's an uncertain world, we're certain of some things. We're certain that even though the "evil empire" may have passed, evil still remains.

George W. Bush

There's not going to be enough people in the system to take advantage of people like me.

George W. Bush

This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at a lot. I understand the emotionality of death penalty cases.

George W. Bush

You might want to comment on that, Honorable.

George W. Bush

I want you to know that farmers are not going to be secondary thoughts to a Bush administration. They will be in the forethought of our thinking.

George W. Bush

I think he needs to stand up and say if he thought the president were wrong on policy and issues, he ought to say where.

George W. Bush

The point is, this is a way to help inoculate me about what has come and is coming.

George W. Bush

Listen, Al Gore is a very tough opponent. He is the incumbent. He represents the incumbency. And a challenger is somebody who generally comes from the pack and wins, if you're going to win. And that's where I'm coming from.

George W. Bush

That's Washington. That's the place where you find people getting ready to jump out of the foxholes before the first shot is fired.

George W. Bush

This is what I'm good at. I like meeting people, my fellow citizens, I like interfacing with them.

George W. Bush

Conspiracy theories abound in American politics. I don't think we need to be subliminable about the differences between our views on prescription drugs.

George W. Bush

What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position.

George W. Bush

You saw the president yesterday. I thought he was very forward-leaning, as they say in diplomatic nuanced circles.

George W. Bush

We've got a cultural issue in America. We've got to change the whole way the issue is looked at. That's the mission. Some in the political process don't have enough patience for that, and I probably don't either.

George Carlin

One of the first things they teach you in Driver's Ed is where to put your hands on the steering wheel. They tell you put 'em at ten o'clock and two o' clock. Never mind that . I put mine at 9:45 and 2:17. Gives me an extra half hour to get where I'm goin'.

George Carlin

They mention that it's a nonstop flight. Well, I must say I don't care for that sort of thing. Call me old fashioned, but I insist that my flight stop. Preferably at an airport.

George Carlin

I have a suggestion that I think would help fight serious crime. Signs. There are lots of signs for minor infractions: No Smoking, Stay Off the Grass, Keep Out, and they seem to work fairly well. I think we should also have signs for major crimes: Murder Strictly Prohibited, NO Raping People, Thank You for Not Kidnapping Anyone. It's certainly worth a try. I'm convinced Watergate would never have happened if there had just been a sign in the Oval Office that said, Malfeasance of Office Is Strictly Against the Law, or Thank You for Not Undermining the Constitution.

George Carlin

I don't understand why prostitution is illegal, Selling is legal, f***ing is legal. So why isn't it legal to sell f***ing? Why should it be illegal to sell something that's legal to give away?

Frank Spotnitz

Usually monsters are some aspect of human behavior or humanity at large.

Henning Mankell

He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.