Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan King

Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.

Charles Edward Merriam

Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law.

Charles Dickens

And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.

Cheryl Richardson

You are an artist. The canvas is your life. Make something worth staring at.

Cheryl Mendelson

So many people imagine housekeeping to be boring, frustrating, repetitive, unintelligent drudgery. I cannot agree. In fact, having kept house, practiced law, taught, and done many other sorts of work, low and high-paid, I can assure you that it is actually lawyers who are most familiar with the experience of unintelligent drudgery.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

So far from genius discarding law, rather is it the supreme joy of genius to re-enact the eternal and unwritten law in the chamber of its own intel-lect.

Bob Barr

It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.

Bill Ayers

If you were against slavery in 1840 and a white person, you would have been against the law, the Bible, your church, your pastor, your parents, common sense, tradition, everything. You would have been against everything.

Beth Moore

Knowing we’re saved by grace but still living under the law makes for a spiritually neurotic person.

Bill Watterson

I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.

William Shakespeare

To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

There is no question in my mind that the law is being abused here.

Richard Jefferson

We're getting there. Late in the game, when we needed shots and we needed stops, they were there.

We're going to sit down later this year and come up with a list of the (water line problems) we know about that we just haven't done anything on.

What we're seeing right now this late in the year, it's unusual but not unprecedented.

What we're seeing is a reflection of what the market as a whole is seeing. You had techs rallying over the last two weeks, and now we're seeing some consolidation after those gains. It's just that techs are a lot more volatile.

Steve Spurrier

When we'd win the SEC we'd get back late and Deano would keep it open for us,

When we get to those last moments we have to trust each other out there. I think sometimes we get into situations where we don't trust each other on what can be accomplished.

Buddy Hackett

I found out that if you made people laugh, they like you. Most people got to like me because I made them laugh. When they didn't, I hit them.

Bryan Stevenson

Whenever society begins to create policies and laws rooted in fear and anger, there will be abuse and injustice.

Cesar Romero

We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.

Catherine Booth

If Christ cannot supersede the Law, then I am lost, and lost forever.

Catherine Deneuve

I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors.

Carlos Slim

I am convinced that all this poverty in Mexico and in Latin America, like it's happening in China is the opportunity to grow. It's an opportunity for investment; it's an economic activity and to take out poverty is the best investment any person or a person can do in any place.

Camille Paglia

In the west, Apollo and Dionysus strive for victory. Apollo makes the boundary lines that are civilization but that lead to convention, constraint, oppression. Dionysus is energy unbound, mad, callous, destructive, wasteful. Apollo is law, history, tradition, the dignity and safety of custom and form. Dionysus is the new, exhilarating but rude, sweeping all away to begin again. Apollo is a tyrant, Dionysus is a vandal.

Camille Paglia

Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees.

Carl Jung

At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness. Please, don't worry about my wanderings in these infinitudes. I shall return laden with rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche.

Callan McAuliffe

I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I was a little younger tried to change my accent gradually. But I've only ever really lived in Sydney and Los Angeles, so I haven't been influenced by the accents of some far-off land.

Calvin Trillin

"Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him a fool."

Jon Stewart

Wow. I can't wait till later when we see Oscar's salute to montages.

We've got a master trail system that has ? laid down on a map ? hundreds of miles of what will someday be trails.

We've wanted to come back here since the end of last year.

Billy Sunday

I pity anyone who can't laugh. There must be something wrong with their religion or their lives. The devil can't laugh.