Famous Quotes & Sayings

Camilo Jose Cela

Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

Henry Miller

Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus right hygiene - nine-tenths of it!

Carter Burwell

I like business and personal life to be distinct.

Bill Bryson

As a rule of thumb, I would submit that if you need to call your floss provider, for any reason, you are probably not ready for this level of oral hygiene.

Aldous Huxley

Henri IV's feet and armpits enjoyed an international reputation.

George Henry Lewes

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

George Henry Lewes

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

Naguib Mahfouz

Without literature my life would be miserable.

Carlos Fuentes

By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.

C. S. Lewis

Here at last is the thing I was made for.

C. S. Lewis

Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things.

Agnetha Faltskog

Abba's last tour was a success but awful for me.

Alan Rudolph

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Brian Eno

Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.

Diane von Furstenberg

Don't talk about your diet. It's just boring, and the last thing you need when dieting is to be considered boring.

Anton Chekhov

In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish that is their strength.

A. N. Wilson

Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.

E. M. Forster

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

David Bailey

My paintings are rubbish.

Kingsley Amis

It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.

Eugene O'Neill

We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it.

Alan Shearer

It was a tremendous turnaround because we were rubbish in first half.

Richard Burton

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.

Morley Safer

Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.