Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bret Easton Ellis

I felt lethal, on the verge of frenzy. My nightly bloodlust overflowed into my days and I had to leave the city. My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation.

David Allen

Isn't it interesting that people feel best about themselves right before they go on vacation? They've cleared up all of their to-do piles, closed up transactions, renewed old promises with themselves. My most basic suggestion is that people should do that more than just once a year.

David Knopfler

Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations.

Dave Barry

During the warm season (August 8 and 9), Maine is a true vacation paradise, offering visitors a chance to jump into crystal-clear mountain lakes and see if they can get back out again before their bodily tissue is frozen as solid as a supermarket turkey.

Buddy Guy

Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime.

Chevy Chase

Every Vacation movie didn't just make the studio money. They each made the studio a lot of money.

Barbara Kingsolver

The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.

Ben Schwartz

The perfect thing for me is to be on something I love, where I'm doing it and have enough money not to be poor, and I'm allowed to go on vacation.

Ben Stein

My pals, such as they are, in Hollywood, ask me why I love to travel to D.C. so much, why it's a vacation destination for me. I say, 'Because I sometimes have perfect days there.'

Agnes Repplier

History is not written in the interests of morality.

Agnes Repplier

History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.

Agnes Repplier

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

Charles de Gaulle

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

Therese Fowler

The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo.

Sugar Ray Leonard

There will always be something about two men in the ring - a mystique because it's pure man-to-man competition. Because of the history boxing has and the tradition it holds, boxing will always have a that mystique.

Ashwin Sanghi

Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people actually believe.

Toyin Odutola

When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.

Thomas Starr King

What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other.

Carlos Mencia

Here, let's go to my dressing room, and I promise, I'll only put it in for a second.

Charles Caleb Colton

The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.

Charles Dickens

In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it.

Charles Stanley

God’s Word is absolutely true. You may not understand how God is going to bring about what He’s promised you, but He is keeping every promise that He has ever made. He will never deceive you or disappoint you, and He will never change His mind about what He’s told you.

Charles Spurgeon

Every threatening of God, as well as every promise shall be fulfilled.

Mike Singletary

We've set out to win the division. We're going to win the division, I promise you. Remember me when we do.

Dmitry Medvedev

The devaluation of words and promises regarding free enterprise is, in principle, worse than the devaluation of the rouble

Kourtney Kardashian

After my daughter was born, I made a promise to myself to live in the moment.

Jane Yolen

Storytelling is our oldest form of remembering the promises we have made to one another and to our various gods, and the promises given in return; it is a way of recording our human emotions and desires and taboos.