Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Hoffer

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

Enoch Powell

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

Emo Philips

Interviewers always used to ask me about my pageboy haircut, and it drove me nuts: it almost made me suspect that there was something strange about it. So I cut off my pageboy...

Emo Philips

I was a cute baby. My mom said when I was born they threw away the mold. Some of it grew back.

The cut you're proposing isn't a paper cut, it's a guillotine.

The cutting out of the Office of Public Integrity really undermines this whole effort.

The cuts to Williams are a wrong message to send.

The cut can't hurt, but it's marginal as far as its impact.

The horse is sore but he is fine and will be okay. He had a nasty cut underneath on his tummy but will live to fight another day. He ran a blinder and from looking like he was only going to be fourth or fifth, fought back to get third, so it was a great performance.

The focus of our program is to cut the spending.

You can still cut prices and cut costs.

You can sit around at a show and look at cars, ... but if a cute-looking guy comes along, you can look at him, too.

Emmy Rossum

When a really cute dog shows up on your doorstep, you can't be like, Yeah, no. You're like, Oh, yay, puppy!

James F. Cooper

What will the axemen do, when they have cut their way from sea to sea?

James Franco

He was so. So dirty, and just moving in front of me, and cute. I was in love with him, especially because he was talking to me.

James Altucher

Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.

Jacques Pepin

It's more useful to have knowledge about cuts of meat than a lot of money.

Jacob Lew

I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut.

Henry Rollins

The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.

Henry Rollins

I do think that Americans are poorly served by their media, at times extremely poorly served by their elected officials who are non responsive to majority feelings and cut off to a certain degree from the affairs of the world.

Henry Rollins

I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.

Henry Adams

In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side of the cut has anything to do with anything on the other side.

Henry Adams

You may cut off the heads of every rich man now living--of every statesman--every literary, and every scientific authority, without in the least changing the social situation. Artists, of course, disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church. Corporations are not elevators, but levellers, as I see them.

Norman Borlaug

Even if you could use all the organic material that you have--the animal manures, the human waste, the plant residues--and get them back on the soil, you couldn't feed more than 4 billion people. In addition, if all agriculture were organic, you would have to increase cropland area dramatically, spreading out into marginal areas and cutting down millions of acres of forests.

Norm MacDonald

I'm not original, but I strive toward it as much as possible. I tried really hard on Weekend Update to do something that I considered original, which was, I tried to cut all cleverness out of the joke.

Nobu Matsuhisa

With sushi, it is all about balance. Sometimes they cut the fish too thick, sometimes too thin. Often the rice is overcooked or undercooked. Not enough rice vinegar or too much.

Neil Jordan

Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Cutting PBS support (0.012% of budget) to help balance the Federal budget is like deleting text files to make room on your 500Gig hard drive

Neil Gaiman

Sometimes the way to do what you hope to do will be clear cut, and sometimes it will be almost impossible to decide whether or not you are doing the correct thing, because you'll have to balance your goals and hopes with feeding yourself, paying debts, finding work, settling for what you can get.

Neil Gaiman

Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.

Neil Gaiman

The squirrel has not yet found the acorn that will grow to the oak that will be cut to form the cradle of the babe that will grow to slay me.

Neil Gaiman

I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the editor [Karen Berger]. She told me, "There's no masturbation in the DC Universe." To which my reaction was, "Well, that explains a lot about the DC Universe.

John Muir

No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.