Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Paul

Women have this obsession with shoes.

Diane Lane

So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.

Eddie Vedder

Isn't Timbaland a make of shoe? It's a producer? I don't know who that is. Oh well.

Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann

I don't speak up if I'm working. As a model, no one pays me for my opinion. I want to wear whatever will make a great photo, whether I like it or not. But if the shoes are too small, I will complain!

David Bowie

Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.

William Shakespeare

You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead.

Charlie Chaplin

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

Charles Caleb Colton

Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip. Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more. True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

Chogyam Trungpa

It's easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.

Bill Gurley

There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now,

Bill Gates

If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.

Helen Keller

I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.

Isabelle Huppert

If on paper one would say, "You're gonna spend three weeks in Death Valley," you say, "No, I'm not going to be able to." Very often, very quickly you forget about it.

Niklas Zennstrom

Silicon Valley is the best place to start a tech company in so many ways.

Jay Leno

106 [degrees] in the valley... I was sweating like Dan Rather checking for forged documents.

Mark Twain

What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.

George Herbert

Who hath no hast in his businesse, mountaines to him seeme valleys.

Gloria Grahame

You go through life in a series of peaks and valleys.

Mallory Ortberg

One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.

Horace Walpole

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Jean Bruyere

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.

Dave Foley

Maybe we will, and we'll take the entire comedy industry with us.

Joe Keenan

One hit can get the audience's faith back that a comedy can be good,

Arthur Marx

(My father) he would be surprised to know he was still popular today, ... He told me, when he was quitting the Marx Brothers, (that) their kind of comedy was old-fashioned.

Tom Stoppard

One of the attractions of translating 'Heroes' is that it's not the kind of play that I write. If it had been, I probably wouldn't have wanted to translate it. There are no one-liners. It's much more a truthful comedy than a play of dazzling wit.

Dick Van Dyke

There aren't many pratfalls in comedy anymore.

Diane Cilento

I did comedy Francaise acting. When I was in a play with Michael Redgrave, I learnt to take the stage and have control of what I was doing.