Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

Anger is practical awkwardness.

Alanis Morissette

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

Alan Bleasdale

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Alan Alda

I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.

C. Wright Mills

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

Buddy Hackett

Why should I be angry at someone when they are out dancing?

Carl Hiaasen

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

Elliot Mintz

The possibility that many people would be reading her journal is really disquieting. She's feeling a combination of anger, certainly confusion, and just tremendous sadness.

Austin O'Malley

There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists.

Isaac Mayer Wise

In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.

Alice James

What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life.

Khalil Gibran

A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

Mahatma Gandhi

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

Orlando Gibbons

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.

Henry Fielding

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.

Mike Dunlap

Your success will be in direct proportion to how you spend your ‘free’ time.

Jay Anderson

The volume of traffic has reached a proportion that?s scary.

Josh Bernoff

With video moving onto the Web, the lines are getting more blurred and companies with a presence on both sides of the convergence will play from a position of strength.

Tom Shales

Perhaps unscripted reality shows and written fiction have already blurred together into some new amalgamated mush, just as the line between commercials and programs has been trashed.

Annika Sorenstam

Last year was a blur with all I was going through (off the course) and sometimes I don't know how I managed to stay focused when I was inside the ropes,

Neal Asher

When you reach the editing stage, it is often the case that you can get too involved with the story to detect errors. You can see words in your head that aren't actually there on the page, sentences blur together and errors escape you, and you follow plot threads and see only the images in your skull.

Liam Gallagher

Being a lad is what I'm about. I can tell you who isn't a lad - anyone from Blur.

David Tennant

When you're older, you want to be scared because you understand more where the boundaries between fantasy and reality are, and I suppose they are more blurred the younger you are.

Terence Winter

One of the nicest things I ever read about our show was that a critic felt 'Boardwalk Empire' could be the beginning of the blur between television and cinema, because the production values are so high and the storytelling is so compelling.

Wilfred Owen

Now rather thank I God there is no riskOf gravers scoring it with florid screed.Let my inscription be this soldier's disc.Wear it, sweet friend. Inscribe no date nor deed.But may thy heart-beat kiss it, night and day,Until the name grow blurred and fade away.

Grant Achatz

My life has been such a blur since I was 18, 19 years old. I haven't even had time to contemplate my own life. By forcing yourself to write your life story you learn a great deal about yourself.