Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Ansen

Newman, with his clipped mustache and his whiskey-coated growl and his steely self-assurance, is an aristocrat of sleaze.

F. Sionil Jose

I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.

Michael Parenti

Julius Caesar was an aristocrat who sided with the Roman people. He's not my hero, but he was one of a long line of what we'll call 'populares,' which were popular leaders who tried to institute these reforms that the people were fighting for.

Dame Sitwell

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

Italo Calvino

Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.

Bea Arthur

Life is filled with a lot of stuff, you know. There is never a dull moment.

William Shakespeare

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man

Tina Brown

American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them.

Charles Spurgeon

All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

Joaquin Phoenix

I feel like everything you learn as an actor growing up is wrong. You're supposed to hit your mark, find your light and know your lines. Those are all things that just make things wooden, dull and boring.

Mark Sigana

She was never a dull moment. All she really needed was a pen and paper, and she could sit there and write for hours, or draw. In a way, she was artistic.

Samuel Johnson

Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great.

Mike Fontenot

We plan on networking at these shows as much as possible. People can't hear our music if we're not out there playing it. Plus, we'd like to think we have surprises waiting... never a dull moment with us.

Adam Mansbach

For me, graffiti writers were always the fascinating eccentrics of hip-hop culture. What they do is secretive by definition, and not remunerative in any way.

Epicurus

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship

John Olsen

On Long Island, rock radio is an important part of people's lives. K-Rock, to a lot of people, was Howard. He was such an indelible part of it. We're entirely different. Here you know you'll get music.

Chris Abani

My grand uncle was a traditional priest, and he would always say to me as a kid, 'We stand in our own light,' which essentially for him meant we were entirely responsible for a lot of what happens to us and for the ways in which our lives play out.

Mark Geragos

We might as well open it up entirely and pollute the entire state.

James Tate

I can't know entirely what's at stake beforehand; you find out as you go. I love to take a poem, for instance, that starts with something seemingly frivolous or inconsequential and then grows in gravity until by the end it's something very serious.

Wally Walker

If we had won 40 or 42 games (last season) instead of 52, it would have been an entirely different process.

Li Zhaoxing

China-Japanese relations are facing difficulties and the responsibility entirely lies with the Japanese side,

Walter Legge

I have little use for Grieg or my Concerto, this is not only extraordinary piano playing, it is an entirely new way of playing the piano.

Isabella Rossellini

That is the great pleasure of working with great directors. You get to look at the world through many different prisms. I guess I love talent, whatever form it takes.

Horace Horace

Let us my friends snatch our opportunity form the passing day.

Eric Kriss

made representations to us recently they are planning to modify that license, and we believe, if they do so in the way that we understand that they have spoken about...the next iteration of the Open Format standard will include some Microsoft proprietary formats.

Alfred Adler

Let yourself be guided in your pedagogic interventions especially by the observations you have made on the results of your former interventions.

Flavio Briatore

Let's put it this way: I am not even sure at the moment we will be in Formula One in 2008.

Jason Robert Brown

Leonard Bernstein was probably the most significant formative influence on me - he was such an encompassing musician. I spent my teenage years absorbing him, and my other interests stemmed off of that. Bernstein led me to Sondheim and to Gershwin, and Sondheim led me to listening to Joni Mitchell.

Sathya Baba

Love is the form of Brahman (The Supreme Reality)Brahman is love Divine.

Robert Taggart

Mr. Rizzo contended that he had given some $61,000 worth of jewelry and other gifts to his former girlfriend and that he wanted to compensated.

Juan Ferrero

My form is getting better day by day and I guess I am ready for my first title this year.

Robert Waters

I guess I'll just have to stop more frequently to get fuel little by little.

David A. Bednar

The Savior has suffered not just for our iniquities but also for the inequality, the unfairness, the pain, the anguish, and the emotional distresses that so frequently beset us.

Clint Eastwood

I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the '60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff.

Charles Francis Richter

There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the scale.'

Bill Owens

Government frequently has a problem recognizing perception versus reality.

Richard Adams

We can show that booking online frequently generates a 15 percent saving on ticket prices, and savings in travel management fees of approximately 50 percent.

Ben Carson

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

Yoshihiro Kawaoka

We don't know how frequently this kind of mutation can appear,

Brian Moehler

We're going to make mistakes. That's just the way it is. Hopefully you learn from those mistakes and don't make them as frequently as the year goes on.

Dick Vitale

Twelve for 23... It doesn't take a genius to see that's under 50 percent.

Edgar Allan Poe

The true genius shudders at incompleteness.

Deepak Chopra

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.

Abdul Kalam

A Fool can become a Genius when he understands he is a Fool but. A Genius can become a Fool when he understands he is a Genius.

Abraham Lincoln

Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.

Lao Tzu

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Fred Schneider

Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour.

Maude Adams

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.

Abigail Adams

These are the times when a genius wants to live.

Larry Mize

Obviously, it's an innocent mistake, and now they can rectify it. I think that's good.

Anna Faris

She's still the same old simple Cindy. She's just as innocent and naive as ever, just trying to save the world again.

Michael Paranzino

Since 1999 we've had 100,000 innocent people murdered in America. But nobody is planning on commemorating all those people killed.

Rick Watson

We're kind of in the position that everybody's innocent until proven guilty.

Shah Zaman

We are innocent but do not know as to why were we targeted.

Steven Cohen

We don't have little Miss Innocent who was sprayed for no reason at all.

Bertolt Brecht

The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.

Edwin Meese

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

Benjamin Franklin

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.

Busch Series

Man, I had no idea what to expect.

Rashad Bobino

Man, I can see why they're No. 1 in the nation.

Mario Bailey

Man, he's a senior. He's worked hard, and this is for him.

M.I.A.

Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

Rae Rosen

Manhattan is unique; the rest of the region is more like the nation.

Toba Beta

Man has to postulate weirdness, before reaching the new science.

William Burroughs

Man has sold his soul for time, language, tools, weapons, and dominance.

Pat Connors

Man has a very poor track record when it comes to nature.

Barry Alvarez

Man did he play. I was really proud of him. . . . I really thought he played exceptional for a young kid.

Tao Lin

I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.

Ralph Bellamy

Solemnity in politicians is not only tiresome but may even mask those twin sins - self-righteousness and intolerance - for the opinions of others. If I couldn't laugh, I couldn't live, especially in politics.

Maj. Pettai

We have very positive opinions from the Iraqis.

Melissa Merz

We have thousands of requests for opinions. We get through the opinions as quickly as we can.

Nick Pisca

We talk about everything. We give our opinions and theories of everything.

Anita Borg

It doesn't help to just get women's opinions and then turn them over to an all-white-male engineering team.

Clint Hurdle

My opinions, I'll keep to myself. The replay speaks for itself. We'll see how it unfolds.

John Roberts

I don't think you can read those opinions and say that these are the opinions of an ideologue,

Alan Sugar

The only people whose opinions I worry about are my wife, my children, and my employees.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

John Maynard Keynes

Regarded as a means, (the businessman) is tolerable; as an end, he is not so satisfactory

Isoroku Yamamoto

Japan has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments.

David Sanborn

While St. Louis is technically regarded as part of the Mid-West, it's actually - geographically and emotionally - more part of the South. I mean, the sensibility of St. Louis is really very much that of a Southern Mississippi river-town.

Katie Findlay

I don't know how to exist before 9 A.M. And without coffee, I'm not classified as a human. Actually, I could be regarded as a threat.

Sean Wilson

I don't want to come off that I'm whining about the situation, but I was disappointed. I've always regarded this as the tradition of a school.

Thomas Perls

These findings should be regarded as a warning: If you have Alzheimer's in the family, you have to take precautions.

George H. W. Bush

Mr. Castro, once, just once, show that you're unafraid of a real election.

Helmut Lang

Once I'm committed, I'm unafraid of the outcome.

Ed Peper

We are going to be unafraid to tell our story.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.