Famous Quotes & Sayings

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name.

Maurice Maeterlinck

No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own: and were some one from another world to descend and ask of the earth the most perfect creation of the logic of life, we should needs have to offer the humble comb of honey.

Rosecrans Baldwin

To be human is to have a collection of memories that tells you who you are and how you got there.

Roy Blount, Jr.

I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind.

Octavio Paz

Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.

Megan Fox

I could go days, weeks, without talking to another human being.

I feel very much that I am a human being, with human limitations, and I need to respect that.

Patricia Schroeder

I could not find any way that we could really run the kind of campaign I wanted to run if we were targeting delegates and still trying to talk to people, which is what keeps me going as a human being.

Milos Forman

Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.

I think superheroes are heroes with flaws, and in their flaws, there is a sense of humor.

Peter Senge

The most universal challenge that we face is the transition from seeing our human institutions as machines to seeing them as embodiments of nature.

Germaine Greer

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

Henry Cloud

Every human being must have boundaries in order to have successful relationships or a successful performance in life.

Deb Caletti

It's human nature to want to help and soothe and save with your love, but it's also arrogant.

Charles Stross

Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.

Ronda Rousey

Fighting is not a man's thing, it is a human thing.

Ian Frazier

With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.

David Cronenberg

I see technology as being an extension of the human body.

Florence King

Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.

Aldo Leopold

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

Don Johnson

This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being.

Clifton Fadiman

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

Clifton Fadiman

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

Doris Lessing

The human race has been telling stories since it began.

Ed Greenwood

I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.

Hill Harper

We are human beings. We operate from wanting to be rewarded.

Cindy Crawford

You don't have to do the picture, you have to do the autograph, but it's important to take that moment to make a human connection.

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom

With 31 sites of avian influenza, Romania runs the risk of human contamination at any moment.

Rufus Sewell

As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity.

Almost any job can make us better human beings if we do it with passion.

Dana Snyder

My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.

Dallas Willard

The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.