Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Franken

At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.

Charles Kettering

You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.

Blaise Pascal

From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is because a cripple sees that we go right, and a distorted mind says that it is we who go astray. But for that we should have more pity and less rage.

Edward Norton

I studied French forever, and when do I ever speak French? I clearly should have studied Spanish. I wish I had stuck with music, because that would still be great. I really wish I had learned to surf earlier in my life.

Brian May

To my mind Keep Yourself Alive was never really satisfactory. Never had that magic that it should have had.

Charles Bukowski

We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting

Charles Bukowski

I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.

Benjamin Franklin

Anyone can complain, and they should have the right to, but if you want to see change you must act. Actions speak louder than words. Don't complain about things, change things.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.

Bela Fleck

Everybody should have a documentary made about themselves. It's amazing what you see and what you learn.

Diane Arbus

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw. It's just extraordinary that we should have been given these peculiarities. Something is ironic in the world and it has to do with the fact that what you intend never comes out like you intend it.

Daniel Goleman

But the rational mind usually doesn't decide what emotions we "should" have !

Billy Collins

I'm very conscious of the fact that every line should have a cadence to it. It should contribute to the progress of the poem. And that the ending of the line is a way of turning the reader's attention back into the interior of the poem.

Billy Connolly

I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.

Antonin Scalia

Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what to do about the Act's limitation of tax credits to state Exchanges.

Deb Caletti

We should have the right to have someone leave when we want, to only allow those in who we want in. But the truth is, people can force their way into your life whenever they choose. If they want to remind you forevermore that they exist, they will. They can reappear in a card or call or a "chance" meeting, they can remember your birthday or the day you met with some innocuous small note. No matter how little they matter in your new life, they can insist on being seen and recognized and remembered.

Dennis Kozlowski

I should have known. The first tip I got was when she rarely showed up in court for the second trial.

Eamon

Kewell should have been yanked off the pitch at half time and put in a hot bath, a boiling hot bath.

Edmund Waller

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

Audie Murphy

I never liked being called the 'most decorated' soldier. There were so many guys who should have gotten medals and never did-- guys who were killed.

Carey Lowell

I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.

Dan Ariely

When you get a checking account, you should have a savings account, and the number for the savings account should be one off of your checking account.

Elizabeth Scott

I felt nothing all the time, and it had started to feel normal. It should have scared me, but it didn't.

Elias Canetti

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

Alfred Rosenberg

We let 50,000 Jewish intellectuals get across the border. Just as I wanted Lebensraum for Germany, I thought Jews should have a Lebensraum for themselves--outside of Germany.

Albert Einstein

[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]

Ally Carter

But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second.

Adam Lambert

The way I look at it is everybody should have the right to get married, if they so choose

Alice Cooper

Satan sent her from the bowels of hell, I should have recognized old Jezebel.

Andy Roddick

The key to the match might have been his serving. Maybe I should have concentrated harder on watching them go by me, I don't know.

Daniel Kahneman

In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas.

D. H. Lawrence

One should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God.

D. H. Lawrence

Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or less to the bedrock of belief that one should feel inside oneself for right or wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God. Now life interested him more.