Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Alvarez

It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money.

Juvenal

If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.

Tom Waits

Somebody said I sound like an old lady, and I was really insulted by that. I'm trying to sound like Skip James and Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye.

Demetri Martin

The easiest time to add insult to injury is when you're signing somebody's cast.

Asghar Farhadi

I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.

Amy Poehler

If you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with without denigrating them or insulting them, then you may actually be heard.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Scientists are not movie stars or politicians who will feel insulted if they are not showered with accolades. Scientists are not interested in accolades.

Joe Sinagra

Perhaps the taxpayers should also take it as personally insulting when they are being sold out.

Oscar Wilde

Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr. Whistler.

Jason Giambi

We always believed. We always thought we'd be here in the end and now we're not going to let our comeback be wasted.

Jim Bowden

We respect Sammy and what he has accomplished in the game. We wish him well and hope that he is able to come back and perform like he did a couple of years ago. As long as he is not in our division, we'll be rooting for him to win Comeback Player of the Year.

Tom Busta

What a comeback for Michelle! For her to win this race after her injury is a testament to her work ethic and her talent.

Christy Porter

We know we needed to stop those two girls. We knew Marlboro could make a comeback at any moment.

Buddy Carlisle

We made a great comeback to get within one at the half. We felt good going into the third and got off to a good start. Once they got in the lead they really took control of the game and they were hard to slow down.

Bobby Cox

We made a great comeback off Patterson, who was really on top of his game. It looked like he wasn't going to give up anything. Patterson was really dominant for seven innings.

Steve Botkin

She rehabbed really hard for six months, and she set her goal to comeback for the Flowing Wells Holiday Shoot-Out. She made it back for the last game of that tournament.

Fred Richter

She keyed the comeback in the second half.

Aretha Franklin

Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!

Charles Caleb Colton

Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.

Andrew Bernstein

Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression.

Andrew Solomon

Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.

Anna Sewell

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

Simone Beauvoir

Patience is one of those "feminine" qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation.

Jonathan Sacks

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.

Harry Belafonte

Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.

Terrence McNally

It was a time of oppression and you spoke up -- and we won. Without you, I wouldn't be standing up here either.