Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Fuentes

Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic, common sense, resilience, technology, and, if need be, racism and imperialism.

Carlos Castaneda

Don Juan assured me that in order to accomplish the feat of making myself miserable I had to work in the most intense fashion, and that it was absurd. I had now realized I could work just the same in making myself complete and strong. "The trick is in what one emphasizes," he said. "We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."

Carlos Castaneda

Hunting power is a very strange affair. There is no way to plan it ahead of time. That's what's exciting about it. A warrior proceeds as if he had a plan though, because he trusts his personal power. He knows for a fact that it will make him act in th emost appropriate fashion.

C. S. Lewis

Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.

Agnes Varda

I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo - and I kept it all my life!

Agnes Repplier

It is claimed that the United States gets the cleanest and purest tea in the market, and certainly it is too good to warrant the nervous apprehension which strains and dilutes it into nothingness. The English do not strain their tea in the fervid fashion we do. They like to see a few leaves dawdling about the cup. They like to know what they are drinking.

Aaron Tveit

Life doesn't move in a linear fashion. Life makes lefts and rights, and it doubles back.

Charlotte Bronte

Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though I had a string tied here under my left rib where my heart is, tightly knotted to you in a similar fashion. And when you go to Ireland, with all that distance between us, I am afraid that this cord will be snapped, and I shall bleed inwardly.

Charlie Cook

Walking is simple and second nature for most of us. It's an everyday kind of activity, not something that's frequently the rage of fashion or touted for its sex appeal. Yet few physical pursuits in this life are ultimately as rewarding. It's a wonderfully satisfying way to spend an hour, and afternoon, a day, or longer.

Catherynne M. Valente

Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.

Diana Wynne Jones

Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.

Diana Wynne Jones

You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!

Craig Kilborn

Apparently, six women claim that Arnold Schwarzenegger groped them while working on his movies. Hats off to these women who admit they worked on Arnold's movies.

Billy Beane

Certainly, you're not going to able to go and pull a Mark Mulder out of your hat somewhere.

John Salmons

When we went up early, I think we kind of thought that was it, that they were going to give up. You've got to take your hats off to them. They kept on fighting.

Bella Abzug

When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

Alan Arkin

I want to feel like I'm doing something creative and trying different things, putting different hats on and playing. I don't know what's the point otherwise; otherwise, it's just a job. You punch a time clock.

Susan Tsu

We had to find a way to make them work aesthetically and practically. I could tell which of the actresses had worn hats before, because as soon as they put them on, they started working them. Working it is part of wearing the hat.

Camille Claudel

I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it.

Claire Messud

I was funny -- ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense.

Benjamin Franklin

Tis a well spent penny that saves a groat.

Joe Flaherty

We have to stay open. We make pennies on the gallon.

Donald Trump

I'm not a schmuck. Even if the world goes to hell in a handbasket, I won't lose a penny.

Donald Trump

Every penny of the $7 billion going to Africa as per Obama will be stolen - corruption is rampant!

Ambrose Bierce

A penny saved is a penny to squander.

Andy Samberg

If had a penny for every strange look I've gotten from strangers on the street I'd have about 10 to 15 dollars, which is a lot when you're dealing with pennies.

Jesse Ventura

I have every right to know how my taxes are spent, how every single penny of it is spent. I have the right to know that.