Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Vorderman

I can't be bothered to go to the gym, though. I honestly just can't be bothered - it's the most boring thing on Earth. I have tried and every six months I go 'right, I'm going to the gym'. Then I do it for two weeks and get so bored by it.

Carlos Boozer

There are two ways to argue with a woman, and neither of them work.

C. S. Lewis

You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.

C. S. Lewis

At least he went on saying this till Aslan had loaded him up with three dwarfs, one dryad, two rabbits, and a hedgehog, that steadied him a bit.

Agnes Obel

The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.

Agnes Varda

To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.

Aaron Tveit

Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.

Aaron Sorkin

Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

Alan Sugar

There are two fools in every marketplace; one asks too little, one asks too much.

Charlotte Bronte

I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

Charles Caleb Colton

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

Alan Bradley

To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.

Edmund Burke

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Carolyn Wells

Invitation is the sincerest flattery.

Charles Lederer

Flattery'll get you anywhere.

Benjamin Franklin

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

Deborah Benaim

We have a special ceremony to give out the medals, complete with the Olympic fanfare music. At the end of the 11 weeks, the person who has lost the most weight out of the two teams wins a trip to Italy.

Russ Hellickson

We are proud to be able to honor Ray. We are looking forward to sharing this ceremony with all of his family. He certainly earned it.

Ron Walker

I am sure Queen Elizabeth II will be seated in comfort for the Opening Ceremony at the MCG.

William Shakespeare

Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere 'Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none.

Jim Rutherford

No ceremony could fully pay tribute to what Ron Francis meant to the Hurricanes organization and the National Hockey League.

Waisale Serevi

I have made up my mind for us not to be part of the opening ceremony since it will finish late. All of Team Fiji are there but we need to focus on the purpose of us being here.

Giselle Davies

The opening ceremony set the tone, and now there's a comfort factor. We can say we are seeing the Olympic Games getting into their stride.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment

Michael Dorf

We picked a radical. Someone not typically considered, someone who has never been honored by the UJA for any Jewish function. It's out of left field, and that allows us a lot of room to grow. At the same ceremony we will also be honoring Debbie Friedman; ours is a very wide definition of Jewish music.