Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Thompson

Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.

W. Averell Harriman

Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.

Tim Conway

Actually, we've done 75 of these shows and every one of them has sold out. But then we buy all the tickets.

Ben Lovett

A Deap Vally renaissance is going to begin next year and will be our focus for the start of 2013. They will blow the cobwebs off a music scene that has become just a little bit stale.

Thomas Fuller

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

Richard Armitage

Adults will not necessarily laugh at the same thing as their children.

Carl Honore

Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season.

Ivan Glasenberg

Africa is where commodities are found, so it is vital that Glencore and other miners are there to develop those resources, helping Africa itself to grow at the same time.

Bernie Sanders

After all, Wall Street is clearly the most powerful lobbying force on Capitol Hill. From 1998 through 2008, the financial sector spent over $5 billion in lobbying and campaign contributions to deregulate Wall Street.

Gene Cernan

After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a space-faring nation, but threw it away. We have sacrificed space exploration for space exploitation, which is interesting but scarcely visionary.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression.

Peter Capaldi

A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I married her.

Henry Fielding

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

Christian Louboutin

A good pump is a silhouette, like the bone structure of the face. It's like a beautiful face with no make-up. You can cover a not-so-beautiful face with make-up, but it is just a mask - it is the same with shoes.

John Henry Newman

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

John Updike

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

Whittaker Chambers

At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.

Tucker Max

At some point in their life, everyone thinks they should go to law school. You may in fact think you want to go to law school now.

Nick Cave

At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration.

Anita Roddick

At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that.

Tim O'Brien

At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.

Oliver Reed

At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.

Marian McPartland

At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours.

Terence Stamp

At this point, it's either for fun or it's for money. I don't take movies that I don't really like.

Baltasar Gracian

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

John Calvin

Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.

Erin Heatherton

Australian people are dope. They're so fun. They want to just have a good time, and they have a great sense of humour.

Queen Rania of Jordan

A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.

Taraji P. Henson

A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man's position is to protect her, help her up stairs, make sure she's in the car safely first. Take good care of your woman, and the sky's the limit!

Rudyard Kipling

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

Karl Kraus

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

Richard Flanagan

A writer should never mark the page with their own tears.

Don Shula

And then to end up with a total of 347 wins, averaging 10 regular season wins for 33 years and the best winning percentage, and I'm very proud of this, of any professional team from 1970 to 1996.

Nolan Ryan

And to play as long as I did and to have a family you have to be very blessed and I was with my wife Ruth. Ruth, I appreciate the job you did, and my three fine children, Reid, Reese, and Wendy.

Richard Branson

And you know, I've had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on.

Daymond John

An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made.

Ramez Naam

A new idea - whether it's a way to collect solar energy more efficiently or a cheaper way to desalinate sea water or a new seed to boost the amount of food we can grow - can stretch the physical resources we have, or even multiply them. And the ideas themselves don't ever wear out.

Harry Houdini

Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.

E. O. Wilson

Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.

Tracey Gold

Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity.

Nicole Ari Parker

Any actor will tell you that you go where the work is, especially when you have children.

Nicholas Hoult

Anybody who has a problem with 'Skins' obviously doesn't understand teenage life.

Henrik Fisker

Any car designer always dreams about designing their own car - if they say they don't, they're lying... For me, it was never about starting my own company just to make another car.

Lukas Foss

Any creator owes a debt to past creation.

J. G. Ballard

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country.

Jerry Saltz

Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage for the showing of art on one New York block - West 24th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues - than in all of Amsterdam's or Hamburg's galleries.

Theodore C. Sorensen

Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don't pay attention and reverse our course.

Alexander Pope

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.