Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge because we are in an experience or to lack another kind because we are outside it. [. . .] Of this tragic dilemma myth is the partial solution. In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.

Agnes Repplier

It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.

Akshay Kumar

When you taste super-success after tasting super-failure, there is huge relief.

Charles Lamb

We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.

Edmund Spenser

There is no disputing about taste.

Bill Murray

I know how to be sour. I know that taste.

Bertolt Brecht

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

Dick Van Dyke

I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.

Edith Sitwell

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

Charles Lamb

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.

Diane Keaton

I don't carry little purses. I carry big duffels, always.

Dennis Weaver

If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.

Benjamin Franklin

Your best investment is to pour your purse into your head, and no one can take it away from you.

Benjamin Franklin

Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you are gonna wear gloves when you lift, just make sure they match your purse.

William Shakespeare

Put money in thy purse.

Charles Churchill

Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own.

Nia Vardalos

You're never too fat for a new purse.

James Lovegrove

The process of being filmed was, I found, peculiar but not discomfiting. At 13, you are malleable, adaptable, better able to take the unusual in your stride.

Djuna Barnes

One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

Howard Bloom

Our planet has a peculiar wobble - its precession. And that precession produces upheavals in our weather, weather alterations we cycle through every 22,000, 41,000 and 100,000 years.

Helen Vendler

I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.'

David Gerrold

Life has a peculiar habit -- once established, it stays. Sometimes it even thrives.

Evelyn Underhill

You don't have to be peculiar to find God,

Evan Esar

The word impossible is peculiar because if you examine it closely, you'll find that most of it is possible.

Flannery O'Connor

The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.