Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Franken

Lies, and The Lying Liars who Tell Them

Eddie Vedder

I am a thief, I am a liar, I am George Bush and my son is an asshole.

Abraham Lincoln

The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.

Samuel Butler

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

Samuel Butler

Let every man be true and every god a liar.

Ludwig von Mises

The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly "progressive" policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas, all they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems. The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.

A. N. Wilson

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.

Alan Moore

Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, "I'm a Liar," right there on the dust jacket.

Chris Chelios

Guys like him ruin it for everybody else. It's just embarrassing. Or maybe he's not embarrassed because he probably believes he's not doing it-that's how liars are.

Michael Hagan

Let's get on with the nostalgia at the end of the season.

Charlie Chaplin

If anybody else says it's like old times, I'll jump out the window.

James Wolcott

Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.

Demetri Martin

I remember when I used to be really into nostalgia.

Andrei Codrescu

Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.

Abbie Hoffman

Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.

Irving Kristol

Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.

Jasper Fforde

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?

Simone Signoret

Nostalgia is not what it used to be (La nostalgie n'est plus ce qu'elle etait)

Bernhard Schlink

But then she was not awkward, she was slow-flowing, graceful, seductive - a seductiveness that had nothing to do with breast and hips and legs, but was an invitation to forget the world in the recesses of the body

Bertolt Brecht

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

Barbara Tuchman

Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.

Alice Munro

The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.

Donatella Versace

You can be too boring, but you can never be too seductive.

Colin Farrell

Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attractive, whether it's attractiveness that's born of just the physical attributes that they have - this kind of ethereal beauty or translucent pallor - or whether it is more to do with the way they carry themselves.

David Foster Wallace

...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.

Jack Kevorkian

Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.

Alexandra Adornetto

I have church on Sunday.” “Of course you do.” “You’re welcome to come along.” “Thanks, but I’m allergic to incense.” “That’s a shame.” “It’s the bane of my existence.” - Beth and Jake

Chris Evans

I always say that the times in my life when I've been happiest are the times when I've seen, like, a sunset.

Chris Evans

The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so great, because for a little bit I'm out of my brain, and it's got nothing to do with me.

Denis Hayes

The sunshine that strikes American roads each year contains more energy than all the fossil fuels used by the entire world.

Edgar Allan Poe

Read this and thought of you: Through joy and through sorrow, I wrote. Through hunger and through thirst, I wrote. Through good report and through ill report, I wrote. Through sunshine and through moonshine, I wrote. What I wrote it is unnecessary to say. ~ Edgar Allen Poe

Edward Abbey

Nature, like Miamonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

As women are taking an active part in pressing on the consideration of Congress many narrow sectarian measures, such as more rigid Sunday laws, the stopping of travel, the distribution of the mail on that day, and the introduction of the name of God into the Constitution; and as this action on the part of some women is used as an argument for the disfranchisement of all, I hope this convention will declare that the Woman Suffrage Association is opposed to all union of Church and State, and pledges itself as far as possible to maintain the secular nature of our Government.

Elfriede Jelinek

Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.

David Bowie

I'm really quite bipolar, and the depressed times, when everything felt like night, sometimes you get to such a low point that you physically beat at it until it bleeds - as you would say - bleeds till sunshine.