Famous Quotes & Sayings

Catherine Crier

Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination.

Edmund Burke

The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these rude and fierce manners.

Edsger Dijkstra

So-called "natural language" is wonderful for the purposes it was created for, such as to be rude in, to tell jokes in, to cheat or to make love in (and Theorists of Literary Criticism can even be content-free in it), but it is hopelessly inadequate when we have to deal unambiguously with situations of great intricacy, situations which unavoidably arise in such activities as legislation, arbitration, mathematics or programming.

Ben Jonson

Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.

Barack Obama

The easiest way to get 15 minutes of fame is to be rude to somebody.

Brother Lawrence

Are we not rude and deserve blame, if we leave Him alone, to busy ourselves about trifles, which do not please Him and perhaps offend Him? 'Tis to be feared these trifles will one day cost us dear.

Bear Grylls

I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

Edgar Friedenberg

Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.

Bryant H. McGill

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

Biz Stone

In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.

Jodi Picoult

It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.

Katie Couric

I feel like a human pinata. The disappointing thing is, no candy is going to spill out.

Tim Tebow

The lows are disappointing but that makes the highs much sweeterThat's what drives you to compete.

Will Arnett

When it sort of finally sets in that you're not going to be doing that anymore... it's disappointing.

Aasif Mandvi

I said we are Ghodratis and there's nothing that Ghodratis like more than a bargain.

Charles Dickens

Least said, soonest mended

David Mitchell

Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't not do.

Brandon Sanderson

Ah, the outdoors,' Shallan said. 'I visited that mythical place once.

Birdman

A thing is a thing, not what is said of a thing

Bill Hicks

I've said all that I've had to say.

Diane Keaton

I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis.

Dennis Hastert

Too many employers have said that they are unable to find skilled workers.

Bo Burnham

I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me...