Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Leifer

I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.

Carol Leifer

It was a mixed marriage. I'm human, and he was a Klingon.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Ask her to wait a moment I am almost done.

Agnes Repplier

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

Agnes Repplier

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Abba Eban

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Alan King

Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?

Alan Kay

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

Charlie Chaplin

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

C. S. Lewis

Oh Trees, Trees, Trees...wake. Don't you remember it? Don't you remember me? Dryads and hamadryads, come out, come [out] to me.

Charles Dickens

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

Jane Austen

I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.

Alan Watts

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

Chinua Achebe

When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.

Chinua Achebe

The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.

Cheryl Strayed

I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.

Chanakya

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

Charlaine Harris

Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me.

Charles de Gaulle

I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.

LeVar Burton

It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?

James Wolfensohn

Ownership is a sine qua non of sustainable development.

James Woods

So you can say whatever you want and quote me however you want about politics and make the next payday, and that's fine because I'm making that deal with you, but just mention the movie along the way, OK?

Alan Bradley

Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.

Martin L. Gross

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Brit Hume

How can we be isolating ourselves when it's 16 to 3 in NATO for what we want to do?

Brit Hume

It's not unilateral when it's 16 to 3! Can't you count?

Camille Paglia

[Sarah] Palin is solidifying her status as a bona fide American cultural heroine.