Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katharine Whitehorn

Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?

Katherine Anne Porter

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

Katherine Anne Porter

Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

Katherine Anne Porter

Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it.

George Burns

You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.

George Burns

The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

George Burns

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

You can be right or you can be happy.

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.

Genevieve Gorder

I had been to the South many times and I thought I knew what the South was, but not until you live with people and live through their lives do you know what it's really about.

Gene Tunney

One half-conscious thought was burned in my mind: stay on your feet.

Elizabeth Kenny

I came to America to teach my method - not to enter a research experiment.

George Jackson

They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.

George Armstrong Custer

Benteen, come on, big village, be quick. Bring packs.

Evan Bayh

America is stronger than ever. We will forever remember those we lost on September 11, 2001. In honoring their memory, we will remain true to our commitment to freedom and democracy.

George Steinbrenner

I think about the next season right away.

George Steinbrenner

As I've always said, the way New Yorkers back us we have to produce for them.

Gail Devers

It's a challenge between me and the hurdle, and the hurdle has always won.

Gary Allan

I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one.

Leslie Fiedler

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.

Lillian Gordy Carter

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.

Lillian Gish

Young man, if God had wanted you to see me that way, he would have put your eyes in your bellybutton.

Leona Helmsley

We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.

Leo Durocher

How you play the game is for college ball. When you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters.

Leo Durocher

You can't get any pictures from way back there.

Leo Durocher

You argue with the umpire because there is nothing else you can do about it.

Leo Durocher

Nobody ever won a pennant without a star shortstop.

Leo Durocher

As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it.

Leo Durocher

Win any way you can as long as you can get away with it.

Leo Durocher

Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.

Leo Rosten

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Leo Rosten

Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.