Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mel Gibson

I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No.

Hosea Ballou

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.

Horace

Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.

John Gay

Who talks much, must talk in vain.

Mary Howitt

To ask me is in vain; For who goes up your winding stair Can ne'er come down again.

Mark Twain

Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

Philip Sidney

Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.

Joseph Addison

Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.

Jean de la Bruyere

I never have wit until I am below stairs. [Fr., Je n'ai jamais d'esprit qu'au bas de l'escalier.]

Emma Watson

I didn't know there were so many ways you can walk down stairs until that day.

Mariah Carey

Apparently I don't do stairs, I won't walk on carpet and I refuse to walk on grass. How do I do to get around, hover?

Shaun White

I trip walking down the stairs, but I can skate them probably.

Chen Guangcheng

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.

Heinrich Heine

Ask me not what I have, but what I am.

Hans Christian Andersen

Don't ask me how I am! I understand nothing more!

Ozzy Osbourne

Don't ask me, I don't know

P. L. Travers

You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.

John Tortorella

Ask me a question. Don't say talk about it, ask me a question. I'm not going to talk about it if it isn't a question.

Richard Pryor

If you ask me about women's lib, I say I don't even know what that is.

Tom Felton

I'm not one generally to do that stuff anyway, and they didn't even ask me whether I'd seen the show [The Flash]. They didn't tell me anything about what I was going to play, they just inferred that there was going to be a lot of meat to sink my teeth into.