Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.

Becca Fitzpatrick

He grinned. “Busted. I’m a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless — and shockingly handsome — alter ego.” “And I’m on top of it,” she announced with witty triumph. “Is that a Freudian slip?” His bluntness caught her off guard. A self-conscious blush rose in her face.

Antoine Rivarol

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

Bill Bryson

I often feel I'm a disappointment to people because they expect me to be the guy in the books. When I sit next to someone at a dinner party I can see they expect me to be quick and witty, and I'm not at all.

Al Gore

A zebra does not change its spots.

Charles Pierce

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

Ayn Rand

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

Ayn Rand

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

Ayn Rand

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

Rasim Ljajic

Regardless of what happens, we must keep up this tempo of major operations to catch Mladic.

Robert Horry

Records are always going to be broken; I'm sure someone wanted to see him catch Wilt.

Pat McCutcheon

Our past sins are catching up to us." ()

Neel Mehta

Patch Tuesday. Because it is quiet, it does give people an opportunity to catch up and make sure they are protected.

Alain Vigneault

Part of gearing up for the playoffs is playing well. So we lost that game. We've got five more to play and if we catch up, we catch up. If we don't, we'll be third and finish from there.

Pete Long

Pasco was not feeling well, and he wasn't himself. But we got some good looks with our other guards and we didn't make them, especially early on in the game. We took some shots and we missed them. Our confidence went down and we decided that we were just going to play catch instead of stepping in and taking an open shot.

Sheryl Crow

Part of that is record labels continually try to work their catalog so they always have money coming in,

Dick Muir

Our likely team will also not be revealed when we play the Cats the following Wednesday in our final warm-up. Obviously we are going to have a few surprises and we would like to keep those to ourselves.

Gary Perlstein

Our law enforcement has a lousy record of catching these people. Unfortunately, I think the message you can take away from these indictments is that you can get away with these kind of crimes for a long time.

Jesse Toprak

I think the moral of the month was that the more gas-efficient models did well.

Alexandra Kosteniuk

I have never been a professional model; I have had some modeling sessions.

Vernor Vinge

It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.

Andie MacDowell

I think role models exist, but they usually don't get the light because people like scandal.

Naomi Campbell

I feel very responsible for young models of colour. They come to me and tell me they're not getting jobs, and I do what I can to speak up for them.

Kathy Martin

We put things in there that this is the right thing to teach. We as role models need to send that message.

Sophie Monk

You know all those models who say, 'I was so tall and lanky and everyone picked on me at school' - I was not that girl. I hear that and I'm like, 'Oh, you poor thing!'

Paul Marciano

When models started getting skinnier in the nineties and were becoming sick-looking, I didn't get it! I think that's sending a totally wrong message.

Donella Meadows

Models can easily become so complex that they are impenetrable, unexaminable, and virtually unalterable.