Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Adornetto

I suppose he'll just have to do," she amended. "You'll have to suffer in silence with your male model...I feel for you." "Oh, stop it, Molly.

Denis Diderot

I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.

Hebrew Proverb

If a word be worth one shekel, silence is worth two

Ben Jonson

Calumnies are answered best with silence.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Reticences are as revealing as avowals.

Elizabeth Bowen

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

Elizabeth Bowen

Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.

Elizabeth Bowen

Silences can be as different as sounds.

James Gray

I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera.

Diane Watson

Shame, shame on America. We were put to the test and we have failed.

bell hooks

Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.

Brene Brown

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.

Augusten Burroughs

There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.

Frank Lindh

He was treated in a way that was shameful to our country.

Craig Thompson

Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.

Douglas Coupland

There is no shame in impulse.

Amy Tan

Your only shame is to have shame.

Publius Tacitus

Love of fame is the last thing even the wise give up

Jay DeMarcus

Mohegan Sun Walk of Fame. It's been an incredible ride, and our fans have been a big part of it.

Jane Harman

Maybe it's my 15 minutes of fame, maybe it's longer.

Pablo Picasso

Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

Jean Lacordaire

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

Don King

gained his fame not by winning, but by losing.

David Bowie

Fame puts you there where things are hollow.

William Shakespeare

I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety.

Barry Bonds

I guess I'm in (the Hall of Fame) then, huh? Otherwise, I really don't have a comment.