Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruno Julliard

Unfortunately I think that the young people must feel they are held in contempt by the president and not heard by him.

Edmund Burke

Contempt is not a thing to be despised.

Robert Ingersoll

There are some of his sayings which show him to have been a devout Jew, others that he wished to destroy Judaism, others showing that he held all people except the Jews in contempt and that the wished to save no others, others showing that he wished

Danny Green

I can't hold too much contempt for him, because naturally he would be disappointed.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control

Michel Faber

I think throughout the 20th century, for some reason, serious writers increasingly had contempt for the average reader. You can really see this in the letters of such people as Joyce and Virginia Woolf.

Jules Feiffer

I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father

Michael Hancock

If they haven't gone back to work by Thursday, then we're going to have a very significant penalty phase to deal with. The longer the strike goes, obviously the more serious the contempt is.

Zadie Smith

Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.

Thomas Gray

He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.

Thomas Middleton

A little too wise, they say, do ne'er live long.

Thomas Middleton

Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary.

Alice Meynell

Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

William Cowper

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

William Cowper

Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Matthew Prior

They talk most who have the least to say.

Matthew Prior

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Matthew Prior

And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.

Jimmy Williams

We are aggressively seeking all sources of funding. We are looking at grants and other options. We really don't have (funding) identified as of yet.

Debbie Horne

We grant wishes for 2- to 18-year-olds with life-threatening medical conditions.

Thomas Goodwin

Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham's seed as truly as they.

Jeff Lemire

When I approached 'Animal Man,' I approached it as if it wasn't a reboot, as if the Grant Morrison and Jamie Delano stuff happened. I mean, as much as I could make it all make sense, it still all happened.

Tom Wolfe

I hate stories in which a person has an occupation and you never see him working at it, like all those marvelous Cary Grant movies where he's a surgeon, and you never see him in the operating room.

Patrick McGurn

So many stock-option grants were made at the peak of the market that we'll be working our way through these sales for some time.

Amy McConnell

She was looking over our information and noticed we paid $700 a month in rent and that we qualified for a special grant through the state of Michigan. She wanted to know if we wanted to be homeowners.

Aaron Eckhart

I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.

Granth Sahib

O Lord, Life of the World, please shower me with Your Mercy; grant me the Sanctuary of the Guru

Michael Jackson

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. The truth will win this marathon in court.

Heather Ross

She (Victoria) can't lie to save her life. She takes responsibility for everything she does.

Bible Bible

When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

William Cowper

When this poor, lisping, stammering tongue/ Lies silent in the grave.

Bill Summee

We didn't think we should be the ones to tell him. We didn't lie to him, but we thought his parents should tell him.

Andre Hall

I can't lie to you. I wanted to size him up, see how tall he was, how much he really weighed. I just wanted to get my own view of him.

William Bastone

Frey lied to us, lied to his lawyers, and lied to his fans.

Bill Clinton

If a president of the United States ever lied to the American People, he should resign.

David Garrick

Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, and talkd like poor Poll.

Charles Dickens

Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.

Cary Elwes

It's true in life, as in the movies, that the greatest highs are often followed by the lowest lows.

Peter Speicher

We are at the low end of what we were predicting. It was a little better than expected, I guess. It was just so warm and wet. A lot of it was melting.

Leslie Cockburn

When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet people.

Ben Affleck

I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

William Shakespeare

How low am I, thou painted maypole? (Hermia to Helena)

Noreena Hertz

Most organisations do not actively seek out input from their lower echelons.

Mark Waggoner

We're going to move lower from here. It's not going to take months and months to get all these refineries back.

Scott Davis

When we get it down low to Ryan, we do pretty good.

James J. Gibson

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

Joseph Capriotti

We are police officers. We don't sit back and watch. We have to get out and do something. Being able to do something means a lot.

Tom Reilly

We're not going to propose a trail ... through the rifle range next year as a means to the end.

Dee Boersma

Whenever you do science it's important to know individuals. And that means you have to distinguish one from another, just like we give names to people we have to be able to give names to penguins. And we often do that with bands.

Shaw Wu

When everyone else is slowing and you're not, it means share gains.

Brian Eno

A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

Natalie Massenet

For Net-A-Porter and its customers, luxury means exceptional service, 24-7 - wherever they are, whenever they have time.

Chris Harper

We're so young that when they start to press, we think that means we need to speed up.

Sathya Baba

Unity is the secret of social progress, and service to society is the means to promote it.