Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Cosby

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

Bette Davis

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

Al Gore

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Bertrand Russell

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Bryant H. McGill

We fake perfect so others don't have to experience any unpleasant realities, because their life is just as fake as ours.

Al Yankovic

You fake something until you're good at it.

Ben Hecht

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.

Alexis de Tocqueville

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

Aleister Crowley

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Adlai E. Stevenson

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

A. N. Wilson

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

Adrienne Rich

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

Benjamin Disraeli

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

E. W. Howe

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Cleopatra

In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.

Billy Graham

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Alice Cooper

He (Marilyn Manson) has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original.

Ann Wilson

You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair... If you're a woman it's even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s.

Alber Elbaz

In fashion, we have a reputation for being such a façade, fake people, but none of the fashion people who I know are fake.

Daniel Schorr

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

Douglas Coupland

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

Dolly Parton

Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.

Dick Schaap

Sugar Ray and talked about doing some articles together or writing a book together but dealing with Sugar Ray was a lot like fighting him. He would fake you in and then he'd drop you.

Claire Bloom

You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.

Chuck Palahniuk

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.

Chuck Palahniuk

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

Chuck Klosterman

Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every comparison becomes impractical. This is why the impractical has become totally acceptable; impracticality almost seems cool.

Christopher Morley

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

Janis Joplin

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

Eddie Izzard

I saw something in a program on something in Miami, and they were saying, "We've redecorated this building to how it looked over 50 years ago!" And people were going, "No, surely not, no. No one was alive then."

David Hockney

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

Anton Chekhov

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

Elizabeth Taylor

I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.