Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Fuentes

The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats.

Charles Dickens

Their demeanor is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face of the earth, a people so entirely destitute of humor, vivacity, or the capacity for enjoyment.

Ricky Gervais

The service in L.A. is the best. You don't get sarcastic, surly, fed-up waiters and waitresses like you do in England. They're good at their job and they're there for the customer. The only depressing thing is a lot of them have written more screenplays than me.

Dave Barry

Please try not to be such a wiener-head.

Dave Barry

The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning “ability to,” and bics, meaning “withstand tremendous boredom.

Bryan Singer

Since I started making films, I've been a nut for dialogue. When I first saw Star Wars when I was 12 years old, I came home and recited all of the lines from it. Before I talked about Death Stars exploding and Tie Fighters I was talking about how funny Princess Leia was and how sarcastic Han Solo was. So to me that's always the most important thing, and I love hearing great actors say great lines.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I was very bored at school. I found it very easy and slow and grey. My teachers didn't really know how to handle me, because I was very sarcastic. I was over-confident, arrogant, a typical youngest child. I went through periods of withdrawing into myself and school psychologists tried to figure me out, work out why I didn't fit in. I found that irritating, too.

Alan Bennett

So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.

Alan Bennett

Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.

Carlos Fuentes

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

Carlos Fuentes

Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.

C. S. Lewis

Now sir, said the bulldog in his business-like way. 'Are you a animal, vegetable, or mineral?' - The Magician's Nephew

Karl Mayer

We have seen 60 or more animals in Moss Landing Harbor near the boat launch. If fishermen are speeding out of the north harbor in the dark at 5 a.m., the likelihood of boat strikes is fairly high.

Nick Brown

We have to get the time between the identification of the individual disease outbreaks and the slaughter of infected animals down as far as we can get it and to try and get it within twenty four hours.

Susan Basford

We have no intention of sending these animals to a sanctuary. I don't know why we would. I think a sanctuary is appropriate for old, sick, needy elephants.

Larry Lewis

When you see a moose cross the road, you tend to tunnel vision on that animal and don?t see the one that?s right behind it.

Ron Lind

We want precise land locations, where an animal was shot.

Alan Keyes

The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.

Brandi Carlile

The purpose of it all is love.

Brandi Carlile

There is a creator and a redeemer, and the purpose of it all is love.

David Kim

We were created for a purpose and when our underlying assumptions don't reflect this deeper purpose, we begin to whither as human beings.

David Kim

On the flip side, when we connect our work with a greater sense of purpose and calling beyond the paycheck, we begin to see the kind of flourishing that we were called to create.

David Graeber

Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.

Dave Barry

Infiniti ads are part of an exciting new trend called "Advertising Whose Sole Purpose Is to Irritate You."

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ.

Chinua Achebe

It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose! For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth, be it from mere incompetence or worse, from malice, horrors can descend again on mankind.

Mark Cuban

But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose.