Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Flora, always tall, had grown to be very broad too, and short of breath; but that was not much. Flora, whom he had left a lily, had become a peony; but that was not much. Flora, who had seemed enchanting in all she said and thought, was diffuse and silly. That was much. Flora, who had been spoiled and artless long ago, was determined to be spoiled and artless now. That was a fatal blow.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I think a lot of things can be misconstrued in a lot of ways. And I think if people open their minds more, and they try to look deeper into something than just something that is a very big, hot, fiery button to hide behind...I think if people looked into something bigger that I was trying to speak upon, they wouldn't be so easy to fire back silly, miscellaneous things.

Chogyam Trungpa

There is no promise of love and light or visions of any kind - no angels, no devils. Nothing happens: it is absolutely boring. Sometimes you feel silly. One often asks the question, "Who is kidding whom? Am I on to something or not?" You are not on to something. Traveling the path means you get off everything, there is no place to perch. Sit and feel your breath, be with it.

David Krumholtz

Halfway through Numbers, I got really jaded, and I had these unrealistic expectations about what Numbers could be. I thought it should be Emmy-nominated. I was in my mid-20s, so I was kind of shortsighted and silly.

Dave Barry

Perhaps you are thinking: 'But a tank costs several million dollars, not including floor mats. I don't have that kind of money.' Don't be silly. You're a consumer, right? You have credit cards, right? Perhaps you are thinking: 'Yes, but how am I going to pay the credit-card company?' Don't be silly. You have a tank, right?

Dave Barry

The method preferred by most balding men for making themselves look silly is called the comb over.

Dave Barry

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

David Sarnoff

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?

Cab Calloway

He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.

Brigitte Bardot

[Roger] Vadim became famous worldwide as a director, and I as an actress, but the other side of the coin was terrible. My life was totally turned upside down. I was followed, spied upon, adored, insulted. My private life became public.

Sammy Cahn

Do you think I'm wandering around all day thinking, 'I must write a song called 'Three Coins In The Fountain'?' Only an idiot would do that.

Banksy

Keep your coins, I want change.

William Shakespeare

Coins always make sound but currency notes are always silent, so when ever your value increases keep yourself calm and silent.

David Attenborough

The reverse side of the coin in having this extraordinary ability to go anywhere, is that no one anywhere is remote any more.

Alexander Pope

Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.

Cormac McCarthy

I got here the same way the coin did.

David Gemmell

It is a merchant's nature to quibble over coins. It is how we become rich and buy satin shirts. The problems of who governs this area is one for another day.

Paul Lewis

If we put all the coins in a line on the pavement, it would stretch over 1km down the road.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.

Charles Krauthammer

I distrust all multiculturalism, liberal or conservative. The Balkans amply demonstrate the perils of Balkanization.

Will Durant

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

Brian Sandoval

Fiscally I’m very conservative … others say that I’m socially moderate,

Benjamin Graham

Even the most conservative must realize that the recent transformation of surplus from an individual to a national disaster implies a scathing indictment of our capitalist system as it has now developed.

Edward Abbey

A true conservative must necessarily be a conservationalist.

Allan Lichtman

Even if I am being conservative, I don't see how Obama can lose.

Ann Coulter

Democrats always assure us that deterrence will work, but when the time comes to deter, they're against it.

Jason Chaffetz

I've always viewed Mitt Romney as a very conservative person.