Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.

Michel Onfray

By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of futility in the present. If the prospect of getting taken up to paradise generates joy, it is the mindless joy of a baby picked up from his crib.

Bill Maher

Politicians will promise some pretty ridiculous things. They will promise a chicken in every pot. They'll promise that they'll keep Social Security solvent. They'll promise drugs for old people. They'll promise lots of stuff. But it doesn't come near the kind of promises that religion makes. The Mormons promise that if you're good while you're on Earth, you get to rule over your own planet in the afterlife. Now, there's an entitlement that goes a little bit beyond prescription drugs for old people.

Anton Chekhov

Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.

Bonnie Raitt

I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.

Art Buchwald

... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.

Don Yaeger

Magic Johnson was in the seventh year of his Hall of Fame career when thoughts of his basketball afterlife led him to the office of uber-executive Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Hollywood's most powerful agency.

Drew Barrymore

I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my luck, I'll get myself to that perfect goal weight, and I'll get hit by a bus. Then I'll be like... looking at myself from some afterlife going, 'You idiot. You could have had that agnolotti, dummy.'

Charles Stross

For a sampler, you could try my short story collection "Wireless". Which contains one novella that scooped a Locus award, and one that won a Hugo, and covers a range of different styles.

Guy Pearce

The reality is that we have all these awards and all these festivals that give out awards, so you sort of go, 'okay, well, people liked the film, and I think it's a good film, and it's up for an award - well, I guess it should win the award then.'

Chantal Kreviazuk

Actually, no, because awards don't spark sales as much as you'd think.

Jason Aldean

It's the only time that I'm ever nervous on stage, is when we're doing live TV. Especially an awards show, because I know you can't fix it.

Alan Bennett

I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.

Charlize Theron

I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious.

Jane Kaczmarek

Awards shows are my greatest inducement to get back into shape.

Bill Murray

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.

Charles Ives

Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.

Carol Moseley Braun

The reason that minorities and women dont have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.

Agnes Repplier

It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.

Alan Ladd

It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office

Alan Keyes

The person you call 'President Obama" and I frankly refuse to call him that... at the moment, he is somebody who is kind of an 'alleged usurper' who is alleged to be someone who is occupying that office without constitutional warrant to do so.

Charlie Crist

Crist noted that his office has received multiple fraud complaints in which potential buyers said they lost thousands of dollars. I don't know if we've seen anything of this exact nature before, .. We won't tolerate it.

Charles Sumner

The phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property.

Charles Edison

Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey.

Charles Caleb Colton

The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing which we most want, happens to be the only thing we never purchase--our coffin.

Charles Dickens

... No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me.