Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Adornetto

Envy is a deadly sin!

Charles Olson

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

Democritus

Envy is the cause of political division.

George Will

Greed is envy with its sleeves rolled up.

Jim Parker

I was the envy of our neighborhood touch football gang.

Tom Stoppard

I have a spasm of envy for the person that was killed by a falling bookcase, as long as it doesn't happen prematurely.

Ned Zachar

I don't envy the FCC's job here. This is an incredibly tricky decision.

Catherine Hardwicke

I was always trying to do architectural jam sessions. But it's not quite as easy as singing or playing a guitar, so I would always see wonderful live musicians and just envy them that I wasn't in that medium.

Gregory Coupet

We need to judge our level, to learn. It will be a fine match. We have nothing to envy them ... except for their history. It will be 50-50.

Charles Spurgeon

Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.

Edgar Allan Poe

Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.

Eleanor Robson Belmont

There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.

Elbert Hubbard

History: gossip well told.

Elbert Hubbard

Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are male as well as female gossips.

Chogyam Trungpa

While you're meditating, all kinds of thoughts arise... You don't find your thoughts threatening or particularly helpful. They just become the general gossip of your thoughts. This traffic of your thoughts and the verbosity of your mind are simply part of the basic chatter that goes on in the universe. Just let it go through.

Dennis Miller

I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.