Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Vorderman

There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years.

C. S. Lewis

At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague or subordinate. Not among Friends. It is an affair of disentangled, or stripped, minds. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Agnes Varda

I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn't think I should do less than my brothers.

Aaron Staton

I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before Mad Men.

Alan King

My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails.

Charlotte Bronte

My home is humble and unattractive to strangers, but to me it contains what I shall find nowhere else in the world - the ... affection which brothers and sisters feel for each other.

Charles Dickens

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed.

Charles Spurgeon

We must meditate, brothers. These grapes will yield no wine we tread upon it.

Chinua Achebe

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

Chinua Achebe

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

Chinua Achebe

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

Elie Wiesel

God made (human beings) because he loves stories.

Elie Wiesel

If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours.

Elie Wiesel

One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.

Brad Bird

Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level

Arthur C. Clarke

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

Arjun Rampal

I like my films to have a certain amount of realism - something that's thought provoking and intelligently written. More than the amount on the pay cheque, I look for a level of respectability as an actor.

Chris Kemoeatu

We were always the two fooling around in meetings.

Charles Dudley Warner

It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

Jerry Heinl

We know we'll never have 100% foolproof security, but we can keep the risk at acceptably low levels.

Dick Armey

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Darren Shan

Power always impresses the young and foolish.

David D. Burns

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.

Charles Spurgeon

He who is his own guide is guided by a fool.

Alan Paton

Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

Chris Cleave

And thus love makes fools of us all.