Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis C. K.

Every year white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was. I've heard educated white people say, 'slavery was 400 years ago.' No it very wasn't. It was 140 years ago...that's two 70-year-old ladies living and dying back to back. That's how recently you could buy a guy.

Kurt Vonnegut

This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you will avail yourself of it for mutual happiness and well-being. Therefore, let us explain as often as possible, and particularly at the departure of life, that we base our faith on firm foundations, on Truth for putting into action our ideas which do not depend on fables and ideas which Science has long ago proven to be false.

Charles Lyell

I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna.

Betty White

Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when you are on that many hours with no script, you know, you get very comfortable, maybe overly comfortable with that small audience.

Edward Hoagland

We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a rat and learn to do a disappearing act. Long ago we outgrew the need to be blowhards about our masculinity; we leave that to the Alaskans and Texans, who have more time for it.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.

Charles M. Schulz

I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me!

Arthur C. Clarke

. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.

Ayumi Hamasaki

I was forgiven by forgiving many things Including my long-ago childhood I was healed, but I intended [ to ] heal I've just noticed, the way I was saved by love Though I tried to keep love away.

Charles Dickens

Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman.

Alan Rickman

A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.

Chief Joseph

I will speak with a straight tongue.

William Shakespeare

In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence.

William Shakespeare

See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!

William Shakespeare

Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.

William Shakespeare

A maiden hath no tongue--but thought.

William Shakespeare

One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony.

Audre Lorde

Some words live in my throat breeding like adders. Others know sun seeking like gypsies over my tongue to explode through my lips

David Tepper

There is a time to make money and a time to not lose money.

Dee Dee Warwick

At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos.

Benjamin Franklin

Money makes money. And the money that makes money makes more money.

Balthazar Getty

Life started getting good when I started making money.

Bill Gurley

You can't make money with a consensus accurate prediction

Ben Stein

If there's a recession, I'd buy stocks. That's when you make money: when markets are spooked.

Dave Ramsey

Work is a surefire money-making scheme.

Adam Levine

Nothing wrong with making money,

Ann Wilson

Life can be dangerous; just let it be! When we shake off what we perceive as boundaries, that is where the bliss really is.