Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Spurrier

What we know about them is they had a tough, struggling year last year, but that year is history.

Diane Abbott

There are 101 websites out there for debate - this was a blatant last attempt to get someone to stand against Gordon Brown.

Desi Arnaz

My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.

Demi Moore

I think that laughter and smiling are some of the best antidotes to ageing that you could possibly have. In general, I pretty much think of myself as still being about 5.

Dean Koontz

If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.

Dan Aykroyd

You know, even when the material wasn't so good, I've gotten to work with the greats, and I've always given it my best shot. I'm satisfied with my work. I could stop tomorrow, and if Bright Young Things was my last role, I could say I tidied it up with dignity.

Craig Ferguson

I'm not aware of having a creepy laugh, but apparently I do.

Conor McGregor

The term "trash talk" is such an American thing. I still laugh at it.

Coco Chanel

An elegant woman should be able to do her marketing without making housewives laugh. Those who laugh are always right.

Elizabeth Scott

Then I heard someone laugh. I wished I didn't know whose laugh it was, but I knew Will's laugh just like I knew he had a small scar right above his left elbow. You couldn't be reluctantly lust-ridden for someone without noticing stuff about them.

Ricky Gervais

I always chose all my friends on whether they were funny. What's a better way to pass the time than laughing or smiling?

Brian Eno

Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.

Bob Dylan

There's no liquor in the land that can stop your brain from bleedin

Billy Carter

Sometimes even lawyers need lawyers.

Billy Connolly

Politically correct is the language of cowardice.

Brigham Young

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Brian Regan

I do a few jokes about the economy but from an everyday person perspective. People like to laugh, and they especially like to laugh during difficult circumstances.

Blaise Pascal

Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance.

Bill James

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There's a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena and serious social issues and we never get to that intersection because serious people don't like to talk about that unattractive stuff.

I really like structured coats and layered scarves, and I especially love cashmere sweaters.

Thomas Friedman

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart.

Charles Spurgeon

If the giving of the Law, while it was yet unbroken, was attended with such a display of awe-inspiring power, what will that day be when the Lord shall, with flaming fire, take vengeance on those who have willfully broken that Law?

Diane Johnson

Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.

Diane Lane

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

Dennis Prager

America derives its laws from its Constitution. It derives its values from the Bible. We don't get inalienable rights from the Constitution; we get them from God.

Arthur Schopenhauer

How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study of its Persian Latin has become familiar with that incomparable book stirred by that spirit to the very depth of his Soul !

Aristophanes

An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.

Edmund Burke

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?

Elihu Root

I guess you will have to go to jail. If that is the result of not understanding the Income Tax Law, I will meet you there. We shall have a merry, merry time, for all our friends will be there. It will be an intellectual center, for no one understands the Income Tax Law except persons who have not sufficient intelligence to understand the questions that arise under it.

Elif Safak

Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo 's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough about economics to direct any criticism or praise at " capitalism " because you don't know what other people are referring to when they use that word .

Bruce Vilanch

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.

Brian Greene

If string theory is right, the microscopic fabric of our universe is a richly intertwined multidimensional labyrinth within which the strings of the universe endlessly twist and vibrate, rhythmically beating out the laws of the cosmos.