Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cyrus Broacha

The first rule of comedy should be, you must be very lazy. Whoever works should be immediately removed.

Cynthia Ozick

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Cyril Connolly

Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.

Dar Williams

There's a marketing scheme that tells you that pregnancy and child rearing will make you into a moron, that your kids are only happy when you're buying them stuff. It's hard being a parent, but I laugh a lot and smile a lot and really enjoy it. The ratio of laughter to sadness is higher. There's part of me that wants to broadcast that. Parenting only affirmed what I already cared about, and that's good

Daniella Alonso

I really am happy that I met my agency and my management company, because they see me as a person and not just a Latin woman.

Dan Millman

Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.

Corrie Ten Boom

The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too busy. But he trembles when we pray-especially when we pray together.

Cliff Richard

I have tried to have a regular daily intake from my Bible, regardless of how late it is.

Dwight L. Moody

It is a favorite thing with infidels to set their own standard, to measure themsleves by other people. But that will not do in the Day of Judgment. Now we will use God's law as a balance weight.

Coventry Patmore

If we may credit certain hints contained in the lives of the saints, love raises the spirit above the sphere of reverence and worship into one of laughter and dalliance: a sphere in which the soul says: 'Shall I, a gnat which dances in Thy ray, Dare to be reverent?'

Coventry Patmore

A woman is a foreign land.

Courtney Love

I am God and my lawyers are my 12 disciples...do not f**k with me!

Colin Quinn

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

We shipped more units than we have ever shipped this last quarter.

The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness

Adam McKay

With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less.

Lou Holtz

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

Buzz Osborne

By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing.

Adam Schiff

Neither the University of Michigan nor its law school uses a quota system.

Jeff Cook

This will be one of our largest premarkets we've ever had.

Edward Felten

The paper would be unintelligible to a lay person,

This shows the labor market in not overheated. And you can see that in, yes, not a lot of people are getting raises.

When you get really mad, you also have really large cardiovascular responses.

Dan Kennedy

There are layers upon layers upon layers here.

We always offer bidding and we are always open to union labor.

Jim Morris

When you lay your life out there, you want it to be as true as possible.

Scott Drew

When you go through something like this, the worst end of it is often your second year rather than your first year. Last year we at least had some upperclassmen.

What Larry can get back, ... is his reputation.

Richard Moe

This swath of land has soaked up more of the blood, sweat and tears than any other region in the country.

Louis C. K.

I find that when people laugh really hard, it's usually because they're connecting and identifying in a way that they hadn't considered. That's my payoff.

When do we reach adulthood? It might be much later than we traditionally think.

We said all along: this is a land development.

We saw a lot of sunburn last year.