Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernest Hemingway

When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely.

Ernest Hemingway

London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.

Fannie Lou Hamer

All of this is on account we want to register [sic], to become first-class citizens, and if the Freedom Democratic Party is not seated now, I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily because we want to live as decent human beings - in America?

Ezra Miller

I am very much in love with no one in particular.

George Washington

[The spirit of party] serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another.

George Washington

Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.

George Washington

I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally.

George Washington

To constitute a dispute there must be two parties. To understand it well, both parties and all the circumstances must be fully heard; and to accommodate the differences, temper and mutual forbearance are requisite.

George W. Bush

Hezbollah is not a state. They're a, you know, supposed political party that happens to be armed.

George W. Bush

I saw a threat in Saddam Hussein. Members of the United States Congress from both political parties saw that same threat. The United Nation's saw the threat. I made the right decision in getting Saddam Hussein out of power.

George Pataki

We are one America. If we work together across party lines, there's no problem we can't solve and the 21st century will be America's greatest century.

George Osborne

I did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party's economic policy at the moment.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Therefore, in my incontrovertible capacity as plaintiff and defendant judge and accused, I condemn this nature, which has so brazenly and unceremoniously inflicted this suffering... since I am unable to destroy Nature, I am destroying myself, solely out of weariness of having to endure a tyranny in which there is no guilty party.

Chris Isaak

I did all my guitar playing at my house. And then finally, I was throwing hay and stuff working in Stockton and somebody offered - somehow they had heard me singing at the house and said: Hey, I'll hire you for our fraternity party or sorority party. And I said: Well, are they going to pay me? And he said: Yeah, we'll pay you 50 bucks.

Chris Hayes

The Republican Party is officially a dumpster fire.

Chris Hayes

It`s basically a united [Republican ] party behind [Donald Trump] and Cruz`s numbers in Texas were plummeting and he was facing a possible primary challenge and this cements that this is the party of Trump.

George W. Bush

My administration has been calling upon all the leaders in the - in the Middle East to do everything they can to stop the violence, to tell the different parties involved that peace will never happen.

George Orwell

The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.

Jean Cocteau

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

George Carlin

Pardon me I've got nothing to say.

Henry Miller

It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris.

Henry Miller

Hell is probably quite similar to most Paris bistros ... a bit overheated, somewhat too crowded, and a little too noisy for my tastes. The waiters will surely treat you rudely and the cashiers will always add a few extra francs to your bill but ... and this is the important part ... the food will be marvelous.

Cassandra Clare

Not your parabatai any longer.

Fred Allen

Three million frogs' legs are served in Paris - daily. Nobody knows what became of the rest of the frogs.

Irving Fisher

If two parties, instead of being a bank and an individual, were an individual and an individual, they could not inflate the circulating medium by a loan transaction, for the simple reason that the lender could not lend what he didn't have, as banks can do. Only commercial banks and trust companies can lend money that they manufacture by lending it.

Jeff Lindsay

For my part, my interest in Paris had faded away completely long ago when I learned that it was in France.

Jim Carrey

I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.

Jen Kirkman

My joke is a picture of David Bowie on his balcony in the '70s in a suit in Paris, and unless that's you, I'm not interested. There are very few aesthetic types that I have, and people who look like that are not always necessarily good for me.

George Saunders

Based on the experience of my life, which I have not exactly hit out of the park, I tend to agree with that thing about, If it's not broke, don't fix it. And would go even further to: Even if it is broke, leave it alone, you'll probably make it worse.

Jeff Ross

South Park called...they want their everything back.

George Bernard Shaw

Paradoxes are the only truths.

Gena Showalter

Paris, the FedEx deliveryman of Pleasure and Fatality.