Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Sedaris

If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you scream, or would you innately understand that he meant you no harm?

Bo Burnham

I saw a giraffe with a short neck That was sad Or a deer

Audrey Meadows

Fans always ask, What did the bedroom look like? All they ever saw was Alice or Ralph going in and out.

Arnold Bennett

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

Deborah Harkness

You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it.

Dennis Hopper

I wanted to be an actor. I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.

Bill Murray

If you walk up to some random person on the street, grab them by the shoulder, and say 'Did you just see what I saw?!', you'll find that no-one wants to talk to you.

Carol Leifer

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

Charlie Crist

I was a Republican, and I saw the activists and what they were doing; it was intolerable to me.

Madeleine Albright

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.

Charlotte Bronte

You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred!

Diana Wynne Jones

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

George Gregan

We're focusing enough on doing what we have to do to get the right result and send him off with the fairytale end.

Kate Forsyth

Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

Sandra Cisneros

All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.

Brian Selznick

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Charles Perrault

Charm is the true gift of the Fairies.

Erin Morgenstern

I love that very traditional fairy tale where it's not all 'happily ever after.' I like all that old school, bloody, 'Brothers Grimm' sort of stuff. So you have all those shades of gray in there.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

Chinua Achebe

Poetry and slave trading cannot be bedfellows. That's where I stand.

Caleb Cushing

I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.

C. L. R. James

Dissimulation is the refuge of the slave.

Daymond John

Money is a great slave but a horrible master.

David Brooks

Freedom without structure is its own slavery.

Beau Willimon

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

Alan Keyes

In this respect, granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves.

Charles Guggenheim

There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it.