Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Vonnegut

there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation swamped by unchecked plagues and superstition and illiteracy and hypnotic tv, with virtually no health services for the poor. where to go? what to do?

This ring means that three objects are entangled. If you pick up any one of them, the other two will follow. However, if you cut one of them off, the other two will fall apart. There is something magic about this number of three.

Paul Christopher

This report underscores or emphasizes that the Fed would be quite well justified for easing policy as early as next week, ... I'm not saying to expect a cut in rates, but perhaps they'll start with a move to a neutral bias, with a rate cut the next logical step in January.

There is a danger there: Gordon D'Arcy will cut you and I rate Shane Horgan as well.

Anne Lamott

Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.

Anna Chlumsky

Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright. But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy.

Albert Bushnell Hart

Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.

Albert Bandura

People who underestimate their capabilities also bear costs, although, as already noted, these are more likely to take self-limiting rather than aversive forms. By failing to cultivate personal potentialities and constricting their activities, such persons cut themselves off from many rewarding experiences. Should they attempt tasks having evaluative significance, they create internal obstacles to effective performance by approaching them with unnerving self-doubts

Albert Brooks

Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't see how they score, you don't see how they cast the rest of the movie.

Albert Camus

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

Albert Camus

how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!

Albert Camus

Mon cher ami, let's not give them any pretext, no matter how small, for judging us!!! Otherwise, we'll be left in shreds. We are forced to take the same precautions as the animal trainer. If, before going into the cage, he has the misfortune to cut himself while shaving, what a feast for the wild animals!!

Amelia Earhart

Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.

Amanda Hocking

Can I cut off your head?" "Are you asking for my permission?

Annie Lennox

What's really interesting is when you get a brand-new wave that has no connection to anything else. It always reflects society. The flappers would cut the dresses and make them looser, they smoked, their hair was short. It was a rebellion against the corset and the Edwardian era.

Annie Lennox

I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.

Annie Dillard

I had hopes for my rough edges. I wanted to use them as a can opener, to cut myself a hole in the world's surface and exit through it.

Annabelle Wallis

People are so ready to cut you down if you take a risk and leave your comfort zone.

Clayton Christensen

Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That's not management, that's deal making. Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession

Claire Danes

I was told that my going to college wouldn't be good for my career. I think that's nonsense. It's good to empower yourself by cutting yourself off from this business every once in a while.

Czeslaw Milosz

I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.

D. H. Lawrence

If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.

D. H. Lawrence

The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist.

We can all be proud we're the first here, and cutting new ground.

We aren't going to be cutting any residential trees. Upon further review of the science, the (U.S. Department of Agriculture) decided it would be would be pointless.... You just can't keep going into people's yards for the next 50 years.

Martin Kippenberger

I can't cut off an ear everyday. Do the Van Gogh here and the Mozart there. Anyway it's exhausting enough always having to check up on what one is really doing!.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

William Shakespeare

Thou call'st me dog before thou hadst a cause, But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.

The debate on interest-rate cuts is still a live one.

Phil Gramm

The debate here is not between reducing the debt and cutting taxes, ... The debate is between taxpayers spending money and Washington spending money.

Abbie Hoffman

I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.

Janeane Garofalo

The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

Adrienne Rich

A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.