Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dee Dee Ramone

Because I'm quiet, people think I'm really cold, or rude, or snobby. But I'm literally scared to talk to them.

Damian Lewis

Quiet people, people who arent given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - theyre also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.

Douglas Coupland

Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you.

Agatha Christie

It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.

Stephen Hawking

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Juliet Marillier

With respect," said Red, and his voice had gone so quiet people hushed each other to hear him, "my tale is yet unfinished; you should hear me out. And it is her answer I have come to hear, not yours.

Rumi

A circle of lovely, quiet people becomes the ring on my finger...

Patricia Highsmith

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

Joyce Carol Oates

The quiet people just do their work.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

I think we love bacon because it has all the qualities of an amazing sensory experience. When we cook it, the sizzling sound is so appetizing, the aroma is maddening, the crunch of the texture is so gratifying and the taste delivers every time.

Alexandra Paul

I don't think I miss anything by not watching television.

Alexandra Adornetto

Beth: "I don't think you realize what you're dealing with here. You can't just mess around with the forces of the universe!" Xavier: "What ever happened to free will? Or was that just a myth?

Alexandra Adornetto

What about this?" I held up a battered copy of Beauty and the Beast. "It sounds romantic." Xavier wrinkled his nose. "Disney... I don't think so." "Why not?" "Because if anyone found out, I'd never live it down." "I won't tell if you don't," I pleaded, and Xavier shook his head in defeat. "The things I do for you," He said with an exaggerated sigh.

Albert Schweitzer

The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.

David Houghton

Lyme Timber is really thinking about conservation -- they really want that to happen. Lyme Timber is exceptional on this.

Jerry Butler

McNabb has always been nonchalant about everything; thinking things will just go away, but things just don't go away,

Jerry Glanville

When you're 17 years old, you're just thinking about girls.

Chris Elliott

I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.

Edsger Dijkstra

So-called "natural language" is wonderful for the purposes it was created for, such as to be rude in, to tell jokes in, to cheat or to make love in (and Theorists of Literary Criticism can even be content-free in it), but it is hopelessly inadequate when we have to deal unambiguously with situations of great intricacy, situations which unavoidably arise in such activities as legislation, arbitration, mathematics or programming.

Ben Jonson

Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.

Catherine Crier

Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination.

Bear Grylls

I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

Edgar Friedenberg

Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.

Bryant H. McGill

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

Bryant H. McGill

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

Barack Obama

The easiest way to get 15 minutes of fame is to be rude to somebody.

Brother Lawrence

Are we not rude and deserve blame, if we leave Him alone, to busy ourselves about trifles, which do not please Him and perhaps offend Him? 'Tis to be feared these trifles will one day cost us dear.