Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baltasar Gracian

When everyone covets something, they are easily annoyed by it.

Asa Gray

Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The fact is, he is very much annoyed by it.

Alain de Botton

Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.

Alain de Botton

You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.

Blaise Pascal

Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world's most pointless forms of suffering.

Laura Anderson

I thought he'd split if he saw me, but he just looked at me and took another mouthful of bird feed from the ground. I banged on the glass thinking he'd just run right off, but he looked up at me as though I'd annoyed him.

Paul Lambert

I was annoyed to lose the goal with 30 seconds till half-time because I thought we were in it at 1-0.

Emily Stoecker

I was annoyed that he got to read them. This guy, they've really coddled him.

Charles W. Chesnutt

Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.

Charles Dickens

It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

Charles Dickens

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Charles Dickens

Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.

Charles Caleb Colton

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

Charles Dickens

When I speak of home, I speak of the place where in default of a better--those I love are gathered together; and if that place where a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.

Charles Dickens

Home is a word stronger than a magician ever spoke.

Charles Dickens

"We thought that, perhaps," said I, hesitating, "it is right to begin with the obligations of home, sir; and that, perhaps, while those are overlooked and neglected, no other duties can possibly be substituted for them."

Charles Stuart Calverley

I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.

Jon Hlafter

The interiors will be sheet-rock with skin plaster walls, like normal buildings, just like Bloomberg.

Diana Vreeland

I have always felt that the only great thing about an interview is the questions that are asked.

Charlie Rose

The person I've always wanted to interview but never met was Richard Burton.

Aubrey O'Day

I've never gone into an interview in my life and said that we can't talk about something.

Ramon Sanchez

The process of interviews is not working properly. The mistreatment of people is taking place out there.

Ben Harper

I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.

Karen Nelson

She said, 'After going through Rodeo Queen, job interviews are a breeze,'

Damon Lindelof

When someone says something in an interview, the beauty of Twitter is that it's a platform for instantaneous response.

Eli Wallach

Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.

Alice Lowe

For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.

Richard Durbin

He has the right to say what he believes, ... but all of us should be denouncing these remarks as totally irresponsible.

Charles Baudelaire

All the visible universe is nothing but a shop of images and signs.

A. J. McLean

I shop more than most women.

Etta James

I like to shop, but I don't like to go out to dances.

Richard Bach

Shop for security over happiness and we buy it at that price.

Akshay Kumar

When you taste super-success after tasting super-failure, there is huge relief.

Edith Sitwell

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

Edith Wharton

... naturalness is not always consonant with taste.

David Tudor

I am perfectly willing for my music to exist with somebody else's taste.

David Hume

Truth is disputable, not human taste.

David Hume

Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting.

Ben Wheatley

The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films.

Denis Leary

I eat meat because meat tastes like murder, and murder tastes pretty dam good!

Benjamin Franklin

The handshake of the host affects the taste of the roast