Famous Quotes & Sayings

Calamity Jane

I'd punch that cocksucker in the balls before I'd cup him for comfort.

Caitlin Moran

I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.

Franz Beckenbauer

Unquestionably, it was also thanks to the World Cup win in 1974 that I was lucky enough to spend four years as a player in New York from 1977.

Lawrence Dallaglio

We started the (northern hemisphere) season by winning (November's World Cup final) in Australia, and we have to try and finish the season by winning in Australia,

Diego Maradona

I certainly have an advantage over some because I can pass on so much from the World Cups I played in.

Adrian Bevington

We have said that when the World Cup comes back to Europe it is something that we will give serious consideration to.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup.

Paul Guen

We were superb. We showed no weaknesses, it was a highly deserved success. Now we are going to try to take some rest before next week's French Cup match.

Diane Ackerman

Who would drink from a cup when they can drink from the source?

David McCullough

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David McCullough

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

C. Wright Mills

History is the shank of the social sciences.

Cesare Pavese

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

Cary Grant

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

E. Hicks

When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it.

Kurt Vonnegut

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

History! Read it and weep!

Edward Gibbon

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Alan Moore

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

E. B. White

We've won here now so we don't have to worry about the 15-year thing.

Bryce Courtenay

Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people.

Catherynne M. Valente

And it's the wonders I'm after, even if I have to bleed for them.

Casey Stengel

It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.

Jeff Murphy

We started off very slow. We had to refocus and get back to the things that won the first set for us.

Astrid Lindgren

Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.

Bill Nye

When or if answers are found, you can be assured those answers will lead to more questions. Is the troubling or wonderful? It depends on your view of your place in nature, your place among the stars; I suppose.