Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated.

Holly Lisle

I always wrote, you know, but it was just this thing I did; what I intended was to become a terribly famous artist, perhaps with a stopover as a singer.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Neither love me for Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry, A creature might forget to weep, who bore Thy comfort long, and lose thy love, thereby! But love me for love's sake, that evermore Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity.

Bertrand Russell

It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.

Martin Freeman

Whenever someone says to my mum: 'How's your son doing?' she says: 'Which one?' If you're a parent, you're not going to go: 'Oh I'll concentrate on the famous one.'

William Shakespeare

A merry heart goes all the way, - A sad one tires inan hour.

Neil Peart

Even as a kid, I never wanted to be famous; I wanted to be good.

Norman Wisdom

When you're as famous as I am, stories take on a life of their own.

Neil Peart

If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.

Sarah Churchwell

'Sesame Street' was a pioneering educational T.V. show, intended to help underprivileged children. But even those of us middle-class kids spoilt for pedagogical choice couldn't get enough of it.

Dorothy Young

She looked so beautiful. I was so moved. I intended to say a prayer, but I forgot.

Courtney Pratt

If other people see it differently, they'll see it the way they want to see it, but that's not what it's intended to do.

Mike Jones

I don't think it is right to use the petition system when you have no intention or likelihood of prevailing. That is not what the system was intended for and to misuse it now is reckless.

Ted Lavit

He never has, never intended to and never did.

Michael Garcia

He knowingly, willingly participated in this crime, ... He wanted to kill, he intended to kill, and he did kill.

Ken Johnson

Our programs were always intended as a safety net, but Medicare is taking over that role for older Americans.

Fred Haberman

Our motto: Pond hockey, the way nature intended it.

Chris Colfer

I almost shat my pants. Literally, the floor was almost covered in my shat.

David Morrissey

I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.

Bill Pullman

I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.

Eddie Izzard

They tend to come out a colour called 'Pants left in wash'

Ben Bernanke

Monetary policy is not a panacea.

Benny Hill

Those hot pants of hers were so damned tight, I could hardly breathe.

Piero Grasso

We'll be investigating how things pan out and trying to understand the new dynamics.

Aidan Quinn

I'd wear clogs, short pants and ladies' bracelets. I created this aura for myself.

Bret Easton Ellis

I am gripped by an existential panic.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.