Famous Quotes & Sayings

John B. S. Haldane

If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.

Johan Santana

My changeup looks like a fastball, but one goes straight and the other goes away from the righthanded hitter. Sometimes it cuts by itself, and I don't know where it's going.

Joe Jonas

I had a bowl cut for years, and glasses. When Harry Potter became famous, I looked just like him.

Frank Lloyd Wright

If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!

Geena Davis

I meet Susan [Saradon], and she was amazing. We sit down to go through the script [Thelma & Louise]. I swear, I think it was page one - she says, "So my first line, I don't think we need that line. Or we could put it on page two. Cut this ..." And I was just like ... My jaw was to the ground.

Gayle Forman

But then Mason touches my neck, to the spot on it where the cut from that night has since healed, and I pull away. He was right, after all; it didn't leave a scar, though part of me wishes it had. At least I'd have some evidence, some justification of this permanence. Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.

Gary David Goldberg

At the end of the seven years, 'Family Ties' voluntarily went off the air. And, we went off as the #1 show on TV that week. We cut down the nets on stage 24 and moved on with the rest of our lives. Always to carry with us the blessing of what we had gone through together.

Elayne Boosler

While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their own throats; they keep reducing space for the one feature that attracts new young readers in the first place; the comic strips.

Edie Falco

It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.

Eckhart Tolle

Humans eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Suddenly, they start cutting reality up into bits and pieces, which is what the thinking mind does.

Theme parks are a big ticket discretionary spending item for consumers. And people are cutting back on discretionary spending items.

Holly Black

More and more I feel like the boy who cut off his nose to spite his face.

Holly Black

I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up. He called it his second smile.

Jonathan Swift

It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge.

Kevin Rudd

The alternatives [to the stimulus packages] were to do nothing or, worse, effectively replicate the Premiers' Plan of 1931 when governments cut expenditure, thereby compounding the problems created by a private sector already in retreat. The result, of course, was an economic rout, appalling unemployment and a decade of negligible growth through the 1930s

Kay Bailey Hutchison

People can't imagine an enemy that would cut someone's head off before a video camera and spread it out across the world. But that has happened with the kind of enemy we are now facing.

Katie Aselton

When you're generating your own stuff, you can never have too much money around, because you've already sacrificed so much and cut your budget so much that everything's taking a hit.

Kurt Fuller

The best thing to do, if you really want to be good, is drink vodka all day, from the second you get up to the second they say, "Cut!"

Khaled Hosseini

The finger cut, to save the hand.

Khaled Hosseini

The impact had cut your upper lip in two, he had said, clean down the middle. Clean down the middle. Like a harelip.

Khalil Gibran

Disagreement may be the shortest cut between two minds.

Kenneth Lonergan

There's a few people who I've accumulated over the years who I really trust to show a first cut to and to be helpful rather than unhelpful.

Jonathan Swift

When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your worst clothes, and the worse the better; for an author, like a limbeck, will yield the better for having a rag about him: besides that, I have observed a gardener cut the outward rind of a tree (which is the surtout of it) to make it bear well; and this is a natural account of the usual poverty of poets, and is an argument why wits, of all men living, ought to be ill clad.

Jonathan Sacks

Volunteering has been undervalued in Britain for a long time. Often it has been seen as a kind of cut-price, amateur version of work that would be better done by the state. When politicians speak about it, people hear in the background the sound of budgets being cut.

Jonathan Sacks

A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so they can build dams, but in reality it's because their teeth never stop growing, and if they didn't constantly file them down by cutting through all of those trees, their teeth would start to grow into their own faces, which would kill them. That's how my brain was.

Naomi Wolf

Modern cosmetic surgeons have a direct financial interest in a social role for women that requires them to feel ugly. They do not simply advertise for a share of a market that already exists: Their advertisements create new markets. It is a boom industry because it is influentially placed to create its own demand through the pairing of text with ads in women's magazines. The industry takes out ads and gets coverage; women get cut open. They pay their money and they takes their chances. As surgeons grow richer, they are able to command larger and brighter ad spaces.

Narendra Modi

We need to cut subsidy leakages, not subsidies themselves.

Napoleon Hill

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.

Lucas Papademos

More cuts were needed to avoid exiting the eurozone.

Loretta Napoleoni

Europe has been in the grip of a very serious economic crisis for few years, so there have been major cuts to anti-terrorist funding, to intelligence funding. So we do not have the manpower to carry on this kind of monitoring.

M. Night Shyamalan

I'm so consistent that my director's cuts are usually 20-25 minutes longer than the released version of the movies.