Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lykke Li

I know that I'm dealing with some kind of wound through my music.

Lucy Fisher

I like all kinds of movies. I really do.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

We never change. Neither our socks nor our masters nor our opinions, or we're so slow about it that it's no use. We were born loyal and that's what killed us! Soldiers free of charge, heroes for everyone else, talking monkeys, tortured words, we are the minions of King Misery...It's not a life.

Liv Tyler

I was really blown away and inspired by everything that she [Audrey Hepburn] had done for children via and through UNICEF and I guess it really, really floored me in a way that I hadn't ever felt toward a public figure before. To see her kindness was inspiring and spoke to me as a person. She was so real and so elegant..I am also inspired by what Angelina Jolie is doing by traveling to places like Cambodia to help children by actually being there and being more involved.

Liz Callaway

There's just something that is kind of magical that happens when we sing live.

Liza Minnelli

Well, I'll tell you something, this wedding is something that I will always, always cherish. It was a show of love and support and kindness like I'd never seen from the people, and that's who I entertain. I entertain the people.

Liz Phair

I can't say I don't get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now.

Michael Jackson

There was Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, an aloof superstar who had everything and needed no one. And Michael Jackson, the shy kid under the mask, who lacked even a single real friend.

Michael Cunningham

She will remain sane and she will live as she was meant to live, richly and deeply, among others of her kind, in full possession and command of her gifts.

Michael Cunningham

These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.

Meshell Ndegeocello

Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.

Michael Winner

An OBE is what you get if you clean the toilets well at King's Cross station.

Michel de Montaigne

We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.

Michel de Montaigne

Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies.

Michel de Montaigne

Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.

Michel de Montaigne

Is it not a noble farce, where kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?

Michel de Montaigne

What we are told of the inhabitants of Brazil, that they never die but of old age, is attributed to the tranquility and serenity of their climate; I rather attribute it to the tranquility and serenity of their souls, which are free from all passion, thought, or any absorbing and unpleasant labors. Those people spend their lives in an admirable simplicity and ignorance, without letters, without law, without king, without any manner of religion.

Michel de Montaigne

There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.

Michael Novak

We talk about a civilization and love and we're seeing it at the end. So many people around the world are - that whole electronic band that Dostoyevsky imagined of love around the world - that every contribution, every moment of love, every act of kindness feeds that and is like a reservoir for somebody in need to draw upon.

Markus Zusak

Clearly," said Arthur,"you're an idiot- but you're our kind of idiot. Come on.

Markus Zusak

And I can promise you something, because it was a thing I saw many years later - a vision in the book thief herself - that as she knelt next to Hans Hubermann, she watched him stand and play the accordion. He stood and strapped it on in the alps of broken houses and played the accordion with kindness silver eyes and even a cigarette slouched on his lips. The bellows breathed and the tall man played for Liesel Meminger one last time as the sky was slowly taken away from her.

Mark Twain

The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.

Tim Smith

Low prices are king these days. But there are things that differentiate us.

Barry Switzer

Lovely? Well, thank you. That's kind of nice of you to say.

Last year we did 36 kinds of beer.

So Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son reigned in his stead.

Duke Ellington

There are two kinds of worries -- those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.

There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

Lane Kirkland

There are two kinds of people in the labor movement: women and people who like women,

Alexandre Dumas

Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.

Albert Schweitzer

All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind.

Charles Kennedy

Political parties need to look at the different kinds of support that people may need, suited to their way of life, and provide cost-effective solutions.

Bruce Springsteen

Poor men wanna be rich, rich men wanna be kings,And a king aint satisfied till he rules everything.