Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Thurber

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

James Thurber

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

James Stewart

I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella too.

James T. Farrell

There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.

Emily Dickinson

By Chivalries as tiny, A Blossom, or a Book, The seeds of smiles are planted- Which Blossom in the dark.

Ellsworth Huntington

It will be a vast boon to mankind when we learn to prophesy the precise dates when cycles of various kinds will reach definite stages.

Elliott Smith

I'm the wrong kind of person to be really big and famous.

Ellen Page

Sometimes I see movies and I get almost angry - because I'm like, I can never make that movie. It stems from a jealousy, but from a good kind of jealousy. It's inspirational.

Edward Boyden

It's actually kind of weird that we can comprehend the law of gravity, or that we can understand quantum mechanics, enough at least to make computers.

Edward Albee

I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.

Edward Albee

It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy - the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.

Eckhart Tolle

The word 'heart' can refer to an emotional bond between people, and also to the precious faculty of empathy, an 'open heart', which means sharing the feelings of another and includes an outflow of goodwill towards our fellow humans and all life forms. This, of course, is what the Dalai Lama refers to when he says "my religion is kindness", and is closely related to the ability to feel compassion.

Holland Taylor

I just never was the marrying kind.

Henry Van Dyke

be glαd of life, becαuse it gives you the chαnce to love αnd to work αnd to plαy αnd to look up αt the stαrs; to be sαtisfied with your posessions, to despise nothing in the world except fαlsehood αnd meαnness αnd to feαr nothing except cowαrdice; to be governed by your αdmirαtions rαther thαn by your disgusts, to covet nothing thαt is your neighbour's except his kindness of heαrt αnd gentleness of mαnners; to think seldom of your enemies, often of your friends and to spend αs much time αs you cαn with body αnd with spirit.

Henry Van Dyke

He that planteth a tree ...provideth a kindness for many generations.

Henry Rollins

I remain hopeful that science, innovation and kindness will come to the fore as things become more and more tense in parts of the world. I think what you are seeing in the world right now is kind of a leveling or an attempt to level the playing field.

Hayden Christensen

I've always been kind of a hermit.

Henry James

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

Johanna Braddy

I'm kind of scatterbrain and all over the place at times.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.

Haruki Murakami

Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.

Haruki Murakami

Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.

Haruki Murakami

We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.

Han Suyin

And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness.

Gustavo Santaolalla

I have produced all kinds of music because I love all kinds of music.

Grantland Rice

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.

John Dryden

Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle.

John Lyly

The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.

Jodie Foster

I'm kind of a chatterbox and I talk really fast.

Joanna Garcia

Am I a fool to hope for kindness/support from someone u have given nothing but that to?