Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Cavett

Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn't ailing.

Whether you like him or dislike him, Kobe is a special player. He has the killer instinct in him that a lot of the talented players don't have. When he smells blood, he goes for the jugular. That's a (Michael) Jordan-like quality.

Benjamin Franklin

It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped

Hoshyar Zebari

Make no mistake. We are here to stay, ... We are not temporary or interim leaders. After Saddam's topple, you have to live with these faces, whether you like them or you dislike them.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I find mirrors detestable; I dislike seeing myself. Of course, there's a mirror in the bathroom, but it's a magnifying one for shaving. Photographs are fine, but I don't like mirrors because they take you by surprise.

Dan Brown

She (Blythe Brown) dislikes the public attention, and I (see) no reason why she should be put through the stress that the glare of publicity would cause.

Oscar Wilde

There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope

Walter Kirn

She started out all excited and impressed. ... (She took an immediate dislike to Bill, who struck her as a narcissistic snake.)

What seems strange is that Obama elicits such extreme dislike when, in fact, he is an exemplary family man, and his policy positions would have made him a conventional liberal Republican not that long ago.

Ira Glass

I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.

Ben Shapiro

Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don't give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.

Tyler Hamilton

I knew that people disliked me, and there always will be, but that's the price you pay for being in the limelight, so to speak.

Dislike in yourself what you dislike in others.

Tamsin Greig

I think that if you take somebody out of their comfort zone, they're going to dislike people because they're not liking themselves in a situation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

Preston Sturges

Much as I disliked the un-American idea of marrying a lady with a dowry, I must admit that little Mrs. Godfrey's little private income put everything in a faintly different light.

Julian Fellowes

What I dislike about movie culture is that it often presents a parable of our problems - but the issues are all straightforward and the people are either nice or they're not. In real life, everyone falls between those perimeters, but not many American films operate in that grey area.

Richard Flanagan

I love all forms of music. I even like music I dislike, because the music you dislike is like going to a strange country, and it forces you to rethink everything and to appreciate its particular joys.

Cyril Connolly

I have always disliked myself at any given moment; the total of such moments is my life

Yotam Ottolenghi

I have an intense dislike of doctrines, because you will always end up eating your words.

Mal Peet

I find myself, by happy accident, writing 'Young Adult' fiction. However, I dislike such categories.

Charles Manson

I can't dislike you, but I will say this to you: you haven't got long before you are all going to kill yourselves, because you are all crazy. And you can project it back at me, but I am only what lives inside each and every one of you.

I dislike the VAT hike tremendously, I don't think it's necessary.

Jennifer Morrison

I dislike the online catalog; it's just easier to grab a printed schedule and look at it.

Hans Rosling

Well, the truth is I'm very scared for people to dislike me. I have conflict-avoidance.

What you're seeing in these recent remarks is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of how widely disliked Rumsfeld is.

Human rights are indivisible. Freedom and security are not alternatives, they go hand-in-hand ... Much as the public may dislike it, suspected terrorists have rights.

I would dislike seeing that yard full of cars. Vail doesn't want to park in their town.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

J. R. R. Tolkien

It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

Steve Spurrier

I think they dislike Florida, to tell you the truth, a lot more than me .... A few fans might want to yell some insults at me which is fine. I've heard it all before. Hurl insults, just don't hurl bottles, and I'll be fine.

I went into Xanadu going, 'I really dislike this movie - let me try to make it something wonderful,' but with 'The Band Wagon,' I really revere this movie. It's really a beautiful movie musical. And, yet, because I'm a writer and look at it that way, I see that there are faults in it.