Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Charles Spurgeon

The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.

Dave Gorman

If a story is funny, and I made it up, then the big message is, `Aren't I clever?' .. If a story is funny and it actually happened, the big message is, `Isn't the world funny?' And actually I think that's a better message. I kind of want to think that about the world -- and it sounds less like boasting.

Bryan Adams

Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.

Cary Grant

...and there I suddenly found my articulate self in a dazzling land of smiling, jostling people wearing and not wearing all sorts of costumes and doing all sorts of clever things. And that's when I knew! What other life could there be but that of an actor?

C. Thomas Howell

My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.

Catherynne M. Valente

But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.

Catherynne M. Valente

Oh, I will be cruel to you, Marya Morevna. It will stop your breath, how cruel I can be. But you understand, don’t you? You are clever enough. I am a demanding creature. I am selfish and cruel and extremely unreasonable. But I am your servant. When you starve I will feed you; when you are sick I will tend you. I crawl at your feet; for before your love, your kisses, I am debased. For you alone I will be weak.

William Shakespeare

Twas a clever quibble. Here, a garment for it.

Charles Spurgeon

Do not fret over your heavy troubles, for they are the heralds of weighty mercies.

Al Pacino

You don't get to know anybody in a movie until after it's over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.

Carlos Castaneda

When you need an answer, look over your left shoulder and ask your death.

Charlie Munger

Once you get into debt, it’s hell to get out. Don’t let credit card debt carry over. You can’t get ahead paying eighteen percent.

Charles Garfield

Mission starts with determining what you really care about and want to accomplish and committing yourself to it. You can always develop expertise. First, discover your preference.

Beth Gibbons

I've had a wordless phase, and that's still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally meant that way, and you can hear that in the way it is sung.

Brad Pitt

Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.

Jamie Farr

When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do.

Dennis Crowley

I learned early on not to feel badly about reaching out for help, and not to feel embarrassed about saying that youre in over your head.

Caitlin Moran

I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained.

Louis C. K.

Misery is wasted on the miserable.

Arthur Golden

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

Blaise Pascal

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

Dear Abbey

There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.

Brooke Shields

You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.

Annie Dillard

Put yourself out of your misery.

Dalai Lama

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

Dodie Smith

extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.