Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Hope

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

Quentin Crisp

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.

Nathan Wolfe

About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.

Caroline Knapp

Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.

Preston Sturges

According to my mother, positively no one, least of all herself, had even the faintest suspicion that she was heavy with child at the time of my birth.

Buddy Hackett

A comic, you have to be looking down at him. My favorite rooms, the audience is above the stage, stadium-style.

Blanche Lincoln

A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.

Leo Rosten

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.

Dorothy L. Sayers

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

Gabrielle Union

A couple of my friends started having babies, and I thought, 'Maybe one day, with the right guy.' I have to find the guy first.

Anna Kournikova

A court is like a scene, people want to see attractive people.

Rodney Dangerfield

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

Jean Reno

Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.

Steven Weber

A culture cannot lie down with dogs and not become utterly infested with fleas. The dogs, in this case, are the mongrel media and the corporate overlords who have grown fat on manufactured controversy and fear mongering.

Maynard James Keenan

Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.

Henny Youngman

A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.

Lucy Larcom

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

Loretta Young

A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.

Bruce Wilkinson

Africa has lost its dream, and when people don't have a dream and don't pursue it, they flounder. People are shocked that I would move to Africa. But I say the place of greatest need is the place of greatest opportunity.

Phoebe Snow

A friend hipped me to hypoglycemia, which an article I read calls 'a disease for a nation of sugar junkies.' Who knows how many people in this country have it?

Cary Fukunaga

After 'Sin Nombre,' I just needed to take a break to go to completely different worlds.

Suzanne Somers

After working with many nutritionists, reading books, and practicing trial and error on my own body, I have finally found a way to control my weight without deprivation. I call my program 'Somersizing,' and Somersizing is not a diet. Diet is a nasty four-letter word that conjures up negative thoughts of sacrifice and obsession and guilt.

Andrew Bird

A good espresso to me is a little bit salty; you just become used to a good taste. Anytime I go into a new place and they don't clean their machine properly or the water temperature isn't right, it tastes awful.

Dwight L. Moody

A good example is far better than a good precept.

Robert Benchley

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.

Rainn Wilson

A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he's a 14-year-old boy.

Tom Hanks

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

Austin O'Malley

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

Jim Brown

AI don't make a big thing out of my race. If you try to preach, people give you a little sympathy and then they want to get out of the way. So you don't preach; you tell the story.

Lynn Schusterman

A Jewish community that is diverse and openly embraces all who seek to lead actively Jewish lives will be a Jewish community that is stronger and more enduring for generations to come.

Bob Dole

At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say.

Cheryl Hines

At my first tournament, about four years ago, I got four twos. Now I have a poker problem. I do win every so often, so that's what keeps me going.

James Monroe

At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.

Jerzy Kosinski

A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.

Julie Bishop

At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas.

Walter Pater

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

Claude Chabrol

A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.

Lawrence Durrell

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Daniel J. Boorstin

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

Antonio Munoz Molina

A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.

Ben Goldacre

Bad things happen when problems are protected by a force field of tediousness.

Trent Reznor

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

Eric Roberts

And then I bought my own horse, which I had until it died.

Russell Banks

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

And they said if we help with the crisis, they would do a lot of positive acts. After we helped in those crises, they showed negative acts and the Japanese and Turks were ashamed.

H. Rap Brown

And understand: class differences will not save you.

Charles Evers

And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.

Sanford I. Weill

And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you.

Philippe Perrin

And, you run also video because to fly this arm, you're relying mostly on some external camera views that may be coming from the arm itself or from the station.