Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Leifer

Long Island - if you're from out of town, how would I describe it? Well, every girl in my neighborhood looked like Kenny G.

Carol Leifer

Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.

Carol Leifer

Women in the workplace - we still have big strides to make. Girlfriend of mine just got a new job. First question the new boss asked her was if she could make a good cup of coffee... Yeah, she stormed right out of that Starbucks.

Carlos Mencia

Why did the 14-year old Mexican girl end up pregnant? Because her teacher told her to go do an essay.

Carl Andre

You can always find somebody to beat up. This goes back to the schoolyard. Most men would think, Don't chum with girls. But I chummed with girls.

Carl Andre

The girls you picked up from the bars were not the girls you took home to mother.

C. S. Lewis

All is summed up in the prayer which a young female human is said to have uttered recently: "O God, make me a normal twentieth-century girl!" Thanks to our labors, this will mean increasingly: "Make me a minx, a moron, and a parasite.

C. S. Lewis

I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor a girl dragged off to slavery from a taken city. If you heard the woman you most hate in the world weep so, you would go to comfort her. You would fight your way through fire and spears to reach her. And I knew who wept, and what had been done to her, and who had done it.

C. S. Lewis

I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms," said the Lion. It didn't say this as if it were boasting, nor as if it were sorry, nor as if it were angry. It just said it.

David Nicholls

I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.

Bill Bryson

Eating in Sweden is really just a series of heartbreaks.

Alexander Skarsgard

We don't have paparazzi following you in Sweden.

Daniel Ek

I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.

Eva Gabrielsson

Marriage is not common in Sweden.

Marcus Samuelsson

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden.

Milton Friedman

What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory.

Izabella Scorupco

You're not really supposed to like ABBA in Sweden. It's nerdy.

Bryan Ferry

Why should I spoil my mood by wearing an ugly suit?

Jane Gardam

The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we have always been an ugly tribe). We are engaged in indoor activity, haemorrhoidal, prone to chillblains, poor of circulation.

Bill Gates

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.

Eli Wallach

If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?

Eli Wallach

When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

Aisha Tyler

Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.

Edward Abbey

All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.

Benjamin Franklin

Vice knows [its] ugly, so [it] puts on [a] mask.

Benjamin Franklin

Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.