Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Bowie

It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.

Edward Everett

You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest . . .

Bo Bice

My lifes a wreck, and I love it.

Donald Trump

[Ted] Cruz is going down. He looks like a nervous wreck.

Clarence Darrow

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

Corey Haim

I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.

Adrienne Rich

I came to explore the wreck.

Jack LaLanne

I can't afford to die. It would wreck my image.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I'm not great about putting on make-up, I look like a wreck half the time.

Tracy Brown

ODORS ARE ALWAYS OF QUESTIONABLE PARENTAGE AND NEVER OF NOBLE BIRTH.

Ben Jonson

It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.

Nisha Singhania

If they had a profession at all, it had to be a noble cause. Now, it is about glamour, money, and fame.

A. P. Herbert

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.

Cat Deeley

There actually isn't anything better than a noble failure. It will always teach you something and you will always learn from the experience.

Desiderius Erasmus

Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor.

Charles Kingsley

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

Blaise Pascal

Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

Brandon Sanderson

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

Damien Hirst

Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

Gregory Maguire

Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.

J. K. Rowling

It is not about striving for immortality, but about accepting mortality.

J. K. Rowling

But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality.

Theodore Parker

I am conscious of eternal life.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.

Socrates

I have good hope that there is something remaining for the dead.

Philip James Bailey

One thought settles a life, an immortality.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Opposition is dangerous to immortality.