Famous Quotes & Sayings

Murray Kempton

We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.

Nina Totenberg

I didn't know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court.

Nina Totenberg

Well no administration ever wants an independent overseer, and there are very good career people who are in charge of this investigation, but it could get hairy.

Gene Fowler

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

Gene Fowler

Writing is easy. All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead.

Jim McKay

Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification.

Jerry Pournelle

We're basically after Joe's beer money, and Joe likes his beer, so you better make sure that what you give him is at least as pleasurable to him as having his six-pack of beer would be.

Nina Blackwood

I'm a little bit to the left of things anyway.

Nina Blackwood

When I worked for Entertainment Tonight I got to emcee Paul McCartney's press conference.

Alan Moore

All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day." The Joker - The Killing Joke

Al Roker

If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.

Chris Cleave

The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.

Chris Bangle

Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.

Chesty Puller

Where the hell do you put the bayonet?

Cathy Freeman

When I'm in a bad mood, I don't listen.

Casey Affleck

I have a very bad relationship with mice.

Michael Steele

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.

Jim Nicholson

We want to treat them with great dignity and respect,

Rick Dickson

We want to represent Tulane everywhere; our goal is to give hope to everyone, ... If we do that, and do it with dignity and serve the greater purpose, it'd be the greatest victory any of us had ever been a part of.

Beth Moore

To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.

Beth Moore

The only reason I can hold up my head is because when He set me free He gave me my dignity back.

Baltasar Gracian

It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions.

Sharon Stone

Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.

Ricky Gervais

That’s the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.

Bob Dylan

Sometimes I wonder what it's gonna take to find dignity.

Brigitte Bardot

There is a certain dignity to being French.

Charles Dickens

Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood... The yet unfinished and unopened Railway was in progress.

Alan Paton

One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.

Alan Rickman

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

Alan Alda

I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

Al Sharpton

If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.

Chris Christie

It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now and never let her get within 10 miles of the White House again.

Chris Christie

There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their Speaker, John Boehner.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out

Darren Shan

but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house

Charles Dickens

I am what you designed me to be.I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt

Charles Caleb Colton

We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree. The reason perhaps is this: when we find others that agree with us, we seldom trouble ourselves to confirm that agreement; but when we chance on those who differ from us, we are zealous both to convince and to convert them. Our pride is hurt by the failure, and disappointed pride engenders hatred.

Charles Dickens

I was so humiliated, hurt, spurned, offended, angry, sorry--I cannot hit upon the right name for the smart--God knows what its name was--that tears started to my eyes.

Charles Spurgeon

Don't just throw the seed at the people! Grind it into flour, bake it into bread, and slice it for them. And it wouldn't hurt to put a little honey on it

Charles Spurgeon

Nothing is improved by anger, unless it be the arch of a cat's back. A man with his back up is spoiling his figure. People look none the handsomer for being red in the face. It takes a great deal out of a man to get into a towering rage; it is almost as unhealthy as having a fit. . . . Whatever wrong I suffer, it can not do me half so much hurt as being angry about it.

Alanis Morissette

When I'm in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts.

Alan Moore

The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside.

Al Pacino

Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.

Akhil Sharma

Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?

Alan Watts

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

Alan Perlis

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

Alan Perlis

In English every word can be verbed.

Chogyam Trungpa

Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.

Dave Chappelle

The language you are about to hear... is disturbing.

David Mitchell

Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!

David Crystal

The internet is an amazing medium for languages,

David Crystal

Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.

Caitlin Thomas

resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.

Alan King

Modesty is not one of my virtues.

Balthazar Getty

I had a very modest upbringing.

Coco Chanel

Modesty is the highest elegance

Robert Buchanan

She just wore Enough for modesty - no more

William Collins

If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, / May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear.

Anne Frank

One gets on better in life if one is not over modest.

Drew Brees

I'm a very modest person.

David Halberstam

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

David Heyman

I thought if I was lucky it would be a nice, modest-sized, modest-budgeted film that would be a modest success. And then something happened.

Danny Hale

He was our punter. And had a real promising future.

Jeff Colton

It doesn't look promising for a wet spring at this point.

Richard Aboulafia

You're tapping in to the most promising revenue stream in the world.

Tom Joyner

It's just unbelievable that a talent so young and so promising is gone,

James Mason

I'm not promising a state championship, but we should go far.

Syvelle Newton

They were promising me that I could play anything I want to, just like I'm doing now,

Chris Williamson

This is quite unusual and it's a very promising result.

Erin McKean

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Abu Bakr

Youth is not restored by the dyeing of your hair.

Fred Jacobs

We need to take steps to restore credibility to the administration and accountability to the university, and we have to do it tangibly.

Kathleen Blanco

We have to restore the state and its people. This is important work you're about.

Isabella Rossellini

disappeared or haven't been restored or rights haven't cleared.

Michael Donovan

Everyone who could be restored has been restored.

Tom Vilsack

He steals second, and I hereby restore his voting rights.

Bo Ryan

This is all about trying to restore confidence.

Karen Woodall

You have to restore the outreach and you have to be in the community.

Alan Chambers

One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

Bernard Meltzer

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Aerin Lauder

I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.

George Wald

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

Tom Jenkinson

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

Jon Johansen

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

Allison Tolman

It's interesting to play a female character who's not ever using feminine wiles to get things done.

Charles Dickens

The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.

Alan Watts

Black implies white self implies other

Alan Bennett

It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.

Al Sharpton

There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.

Al Sharpton

Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.

Al Sharpton

What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?

Chico Hamilton

And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay.

Chiang Kai-shek

My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.

Dave Chappelle

All white people talk about when they get high is other times that they got high.