Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger.

Alan Greenspan

American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.

Alan Greenspan

We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.

Jamie Shea

We want them to have the benefit of summer months to help to rebuild their homes and lives. But obviously, we want them not to go back until there is a secure presence, to ensure that the refugee return can be done in an organized way.

James Hood

We want to stay in the port; we feel we have been a good tenant. We provide an economic benefit, a net positive revenue flow, which goes to the general revenue of the state.

Andrew Golden

We want to spend as much of the endowment as possible, subject to two constraints ? preserving purchasing power into perpetuity and assuring that the spending stream is relatively stable. Your great-grandchildren need to get the same economic benefit that you're getting now.

Pat Keliher

We want to see the biggest public benefit come out of this, but we have to take it at step at a time.

Louis Navellier

I want attractive stocks that will benefit from persistent institutional buying pressure.

Kevin Logan

The only reason we wouldn't be able to make it (to the benefit concert) is if Pete got listed and we needed to leave. As soon as they list him then we need to get him down immediately.

Louise Leakey

If you want to become a fossil, you actually need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface. And then you hope that one of us lot will walk around and find small pieces of you.

Blake Shelton

We all got a hillbilly bone down deep inside.

and City

When you're young, your whole life is about the pursuit of fun. Then, you grow up and learn to be cautious. You could break a bone or a heart. You look before you leap and sometimes you don't leap at all because there's not always someone there to catch you. And in life, there's no safety net. When did it stop being fun and start being scary?

Mark Robinson

Whale Bone Point was always the destination point they wanted to walk to and now they can.

Tom Rasmussen

We find holes in the ground and shattered bone around. It's a huge problem.

James Larkin

We are beaten, we will make no bones about it; but we are not too badly beaten still to fight.

Kate Forsyth

Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.

Samantha Shannon

I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interacting with the rest of the world.

Samantha Shannon

I've been writing since I was about thirteen but didn't start a book until 2007. I spent four years writing a sci-fi novel before I wrote 'The Bone Season' at nineteen.

Charles Caleb Colton

Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom; therefore, when we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained a something that will stay by us, and which will serve us again. But, if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought but borrowed it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Doubt is the vestibule of faith.

Charles Spurgeon

There will be no doubt about His having chosen you when you have chosen Him.

Alan Bennett

At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like 'I bet Tom Stoppard doesn't have to do this' or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling'.

Alan Arkin

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

Buenaventura Durruti

We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that.

Bryan Adams

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure.

Caroline B. Cooney

When in doubt, shut up.

Camille Paglia

When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde.

Mike Malone

But that's the furthest thing from the truth.

Mary Matalin

He is relentlessly even-keeled and is going to do what he's going to do. He's the furthest thing from a whiner.

Brian McKnight

I'm probably the furthest from being romantic that you've ever seen; I'm not even close to being romantic in any way until I have to be.

Gabe Norwood

That was the furthest thing on my mind two weeks ago. Two weeks ago, I was just hoping to get in. I thought of it every day since the day after we got in. When opportunity knocks, open the door. That's what we're trying to do, just walk through the door.

John Higgins

Snooker has just been a British-based sport for such a long time and when I started at 18 the furthest you'd go would be London.

Joseph Simmons

The wedding and the honeymoon are probably the furthest thing from marriage.

Andrea Dean

We have never had an incident like this. We are going to review our policies and our protocol.

E. L. Konigsburg

Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I know how things are going to end, and I know some important incidents along the way.

Ken Trump

When I looked at the incidents this year, it jumped right out.

Ben Carson

We have the purveyors of hatred who take every single incident between people of two races and try to make a race war out of it and drive wedges into people. And this does not need to be done.

Dave Bristow

We don't know if the two incidents are related, but it could be that the suspects were working with the two men who were arrested.

Lajos Egri

No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even a simple thought. This thought or incident grows, and the story slowly unfolds itself. You have time to find your premise in the mass of your material later. The important thing is to find it.

Matt Bryden

Because of the reduced U.N. presence on the border, any incident could be interpreted as a provocation.

LaNedra Carroll

I'd like to think it was an isolated incident because we've put the word out repeatedly.

Monte Mitchell

We've responded to nine incidents seven in the past two weeks.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Alan Rickman

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

Eric DiBiase

We've won nine of the last 11, so I like our chances.

Andrew Palmer

We want to show that we're no joke. People thought last year was a fluke. We can make improvements from last year. We're ready to see what's out there.

David Mitchell

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

David Sanborn

You're only as good as your last record.

Camille Paglia

The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I need some kind of... like... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!

Chief Joseph

Cursed be he that scalps the reputation of the dead.

William Shakespeare

You have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.

Elizabeth Arden

Repetition makes reputation.

Charles Dudley Warner

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

Baltasar Gracian

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Ariel Pink

I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.

Desiderius Erasmus

Concealed talent brings no reputation.

Blaise Pascal

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Sydney Smith

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.