Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. J. Jacobs

There's a lot of food restriction in the Bible, but it does say you're allowed to eat crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts. I decided to take advantage of that and eat a cricket. It was chocolate-covered, and I'm not sure that's the way they were served in Moses' time. But this was a rule that seemed crazy on the outside, then actually turned out to be pragmatic and compassionate.

Abbie Hoffman

Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks.

Aeschylus

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

Tadashi Yanai

You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.

(Nobody else from Baylor is going to Mercer) that I know of. I guess I'm the only one crazy enough to go.

Menopause is a perfectly natural process. As family members and friends recognize that this is a normal process and learn about the normal, natural symptoms, they will then treat the woman like she's normal and natural rather than a crazy woman.

My kids used to tease me and say the neighbor kids probably called me 'the crazy gourd lady' because of the gourds taking over the place. It really was a funny sight.

Netanyahu must stop his crazy policies in East Jerusalem, ... The reaction, the riots, the demonstrations are the result of these policies.

Noone questions why we were so crazy the first week of January, we're giving back some of the fluff rally.

We are here to teach. It's what we like to do -- it keeps us crazy and sane at the same time.

Jandy Nelson

That's exactly it—I am crazy sad, and somewhere deep inside, all I want is to fly.

Jandy Nelson

He's bent over the strings tuning his guitar with such passionate attention I almost feel I should look away but I can't. In fact I'm full on gawking wondering what it would be like to be cool and casual and fearless and passionate and so freaking alive just like he is- and for a split second I want to play with him. I want to disturb the birds. Later as he plays and plays as all the fog burns away I think he's right. That's exactly it- I am crazy sad and somewhere deep inside all I want is to fly.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I want to be older. I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. I feel way better now than I did when I was 20. I'm stronger, I'm smarter in every way, I'm so much less crazy than I was then.

Jami Attenberg

I'd love to be able to write crazy epic plots. I'm working on it.

James Young

It's crazy how every guitarist is their own worst critic in many ways.

Jason David Frank

It's not an option that you have to buy something in my line. You can hang out, take pictures, shoot video, shout out loud all crazy, whatever you want really, because it's not about money for me. I'm happy to do what I do!

Jason Biggs

Well, I'm proud to say American Pie was the kind of crazy, gross-out film that guys thought was the greatest.

Jason Bateman

I don't really find a problem with technology or television, or anything. I'm a product of it. I grew up watching TV, and I don't think I'm too dumb or too crazy.

Janina Gavankar

Pilot season is always crazy because you audition for a million things, and really, in the end, it's not up to you.

Jane Wagner

Frankly, goin' crazy was the best thing that ever happened to me. I don't say it's for everybody; some people couldn't cope.

Milan Kundera

Yes, it's crazy. Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all.

Dwyane Wade

But it won't be crazy like the regular season. I'll make sure everything is under control.

I'm always looking for wild and crazy people. They're so much fun. My family is so sane.

Morale is very high after all the victories and with the crazy support we'll have, we're going to do everything we can to win.

My grandmother was crying because she was saying out of her whole 71 years, she's never seen anything like that. There are a whole lot of crazy things going on down there. I just want them out of there.

My favorite memory of Dave was up in Duluth when he had, like, 27 in the second half. It was just crazy watching that. He was just going off. You just sat there in awe.

No, I don't know any of the players now. They're new coaches. It was fun to play them. We're going to try to play them more. We're so close, it's crazy not to.

I don't think it's going to be as easy as that sounds. I'm going to try to take it in stride and do my best. It's going to be a crazy week, and I want to try to enjoy it.

Jake Epstein

I did 'Degrassi' for five years in Toronto, and I made the decision to quit the show to go to theatre school, which a lot of people thought I was really crazy to do, but it was one of those major decisions in my life that I haven't regretted - hopefully I won't! I really wanted to go to school.

Eva Green

I don't have a problem with someone having plastic surgery, but I think it's crazy for everyone to have the same body.

E. B. White

I'd like it to be the other way sometimes, ... I've got a crazy metabolism. I get (the weight) and it goes right down as soon as I start running. It's hard for me to put on weight. You just try to work at it and eat as much as you can, try to do the things that will get you there.

I don't get crazy with it. The competitive eating thing is a weekend hobby.

Kenneth Koch

I discovered modern poetry I think quite late, when I was 17, through an anthology, a Louis Untermeyer anthology. Of course, I was crazy about modern poetry as soon as I discovered it.