Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Charles Sturt

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

Charles Spurgeon

Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.

Alan Moore

Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.

Alan Greenspan

The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.

Alan Greenspan

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.

Alan Bennett

The thing I think about is that once you've done it, you then start to think about what you're going to do next. It's much easier to follow something that's not been as successful as this.

Alan Ball

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

Alan Alda

We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.

Aristotle

My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.

Os Guinness

I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.

John McCain

I've seen enough killing in my life. I know how precious human life is and I don't need a lecture from you.

Hal Boyle

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

James Lasdun

The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.

Sinclair Lewis

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.

Michael Faraday

Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.

Witold Gombrowicz

I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.

Willa Cather

A watch is the most essential part of a lecture.

Abraham Lincoln

I was raised to farm work.

Elizabeth Taylor

I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.

Dixie Lee Ray

Nature did not make me willowy.

Janet Jackson

I like to read. Autobiographies.

Doris Lessing

An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

Clare Boothe Luce

All autobiographies are alibi-ographies.

Clare Boothe Luce

Autobiography is mostly alibiography.

Bill Burr

Ric Flair was so big I heard about him. I've read his autobiography and all that. He's huge.

Berenice Bejo

I read Gloria Swanson's autobiography just because I wanted to know what it was like in the time.