Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Cavett

Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.

John Grant

Something big, ... is about to happen at Notre Dame.

Alan Cumming

You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.

Bette Davis

I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

Frank Sinatra

You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.

Philip Larkin

One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do ourselves.

Miranda Richardson

And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna.

John Lahr

Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.

Lou Holtz

You don't go to Notre Dame to learn something, you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

Charlie Chaplin

In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.

Charles de Gaulle

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents

Charles de Lint

There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.

Charles de Lint

Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is.

Charles de Lint

It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.

Charles Dickens

There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more. Never has that curtain dropped so heavy and blank, as when my way in life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly-entered road of apprenticeship to Joe.

Charles Dickens

We went our several ways," said Lady Dedlock, "and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to be regretted, I suppose, but it could not be helped.

Alan Watts

Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.

Alan Moore

You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other.