Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

He was as shy as a newspaper is when referring to its own merits

Benjamin Disraeli

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

Atharva Veda

May we imbibe all those qualities and sublime merits possessed by gods.

Ben Affleck

I've learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I'm going to do so on the merit of my own instincts.

Jean Giraudoux

Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman.

M. Wolfe

we should note that there will never be merit raises.

Claude Monet

The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.

Stephen Jay Gould

The great merit of Stephen Gould's account of the disastrous history of phychometrics is that he shifts the argument from a sterile contest between environmentalists and hereditarians and turns it into an argument between those who are impressed with what our biology stops us doing and those who are impressed with what it allows us to do.

Petrarch

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

B. B. King

Notes are expensive... spend them wisely

Bharati Mukherjee

I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money. You know, there was always a couple of bodyguards behind me, who took care if I wanted... I needed pencils for school, I needed a notebook, they were the ones who were taking out the money. I was constantly guarded.

Bill Bryson

When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. "Oh, that's not necessary," he replied . "It's so seldom I have one.

Bernadette Peters

It was like being high when you reach those high notes.

David Bernstein

He used no notes and yet his speech was passionate and moving. It was very impressive.

Steve Miller

I get many notes from hourly workers, a lot of them angry. And they say some unkind things about me,

AJ Punjabi

We're offering a reminder service. If you sign up for our e-mail subscription list, the notes are going to automatically be in your e-mail box.

Alan Cropsey

When he was in the United States Senate, he was noted as an intellectual powerhouse,

Channing Tatum

I've cried a hundred times at The Notebook. My wife cries and that makes me cry, and she makes me promise we're going to die in bed together. I'm like: "That's weird, I don't want to talk about that."