Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Stoppard

Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self.

John Gardner

Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

Life in New York can be so, I don't know, chaotic, overwhelming, busy, frantic, and often, seniors can easily get overlooked.

Zubin Mehta

Open rehearsals reach people who might not otherwise hear the Philharmonic - people on fixed incomes, people who can't move easily at night, students.

The poise of this team was very good. We could have easily shut it down down four (points), but we didn't. That says a lot about this team.

Ira Glass

I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.

All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.

Lance Loud

I don't know if hep C is called 'the quiet killer,' but it easily could be, so unnoticeably does it nestle into your body before crankin' up the screws and letting you race to figure out what's going on.

John Spratt

What we've got now is a situation where none of this is easily possible,

Nasim Pedrad

I can easily connect with the prepubescent dork I spent much of my life being.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

Terence

You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.

William Collins

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.

Waris Ahluwalia

People who know me know that there's a light-hearted side, humour... But you could easily say I am cheeky.

Robert Adamson

Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned.

If Yucca Mountain had not been designated as a dumpsite for radioactive waste in 1987, it might easily have become a scenic overlook on the long drive between Tonopah and Las Vegas.

Charles Edward Montague

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

Kevin Whately

I feel very at home in woodlands and could easily live there. I should have been one of Robin Hood's men.

Caity Lotz

I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!

C. J. Mahaney

I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.

We probably have six who can score 18 to 20 points. We have five to six which can easily do it.

I thought we played extremely well. We were well prepared and the guys were focussed. We easily could have won the game, but I am comfortable with how we played.

I thought really at half-time they had the momentum swinging in their direction.... It easily could have been 21-21 at half-time.

Claudia Pechstein

I think any man would be happy about this time. I think she can skate easily to the title.

In the soil of ignorance, fear can easily be sown.

Francesca Annis

I can easily sleep from nine to 13 hours a night.

Florence Welch

I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

Thabo Mbeki

It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs.

I never do the cute thing with animals; they are interesting shapes. I just use their profile. Because German shepherds are so easily recognizable, they would fall outside my purview.

Billy Collins

I'm easily frightened, and I've also come to realize that old Catholic guilt or remorse is easily stimulated.

This report is largely an energy story, but the size of the increase can't be easily dismissed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

You have to be compassionate, not easily shocked, and very caring. It takes a very special disposition to work with those who have been handed a sentence of six months or less to live.