Famous Quotes & Sayings

Camille Paglia

Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.

Camille Paglia

Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.

Bruno Schulz

In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.

Carl Hiaasen

Roy remembered the time he and his father had a talk about fighting. 'It's important to stand up for what's right,' Mr. Eberhardt had said, 'but sometimes there's a fine line between courage and stupidity.

William Shakespeare

My father names me Autolycus, who being, as I am, littered under Mercury, was likewise a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.

William Shakespeare

All surfeit is the father of much fast.

William Shakespeare

He must needs go that the devil drives.

William Shakespeare

I am thy father's spirit; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night And, for the day, confin'd to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burnt and purg'd away.

Louis C. K.

Fathers have skills that they never use at home. You run a landscaping business and you can't dress and feed a four-year-old? Take it on!

Louis C. K.

When my kids were younger, I used to avoid them. I used to sit on the toilet 'til my legs fell asleep. You want to know why your father spends so long in the toilet? Because he's not sure he wants to be a father.

Louis C. K.

I found out that I'm a pretty bad father. I make a lot of mistakes and I don't know what I'm doing. But my kids love me. Go figure.

Louis C. K.

If I do something for my kids, I get a medal, because most fathers don't.

Louis C. K.

I'm a good citizen. I'm a good father. I recycle and I masturbate.

Kurt Vonnegut

I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still. Another thing they taught was that no one was ridiculous or bad or disgusting. Shortly before my father died, he said to me, ‘You know – you never wrote a story with a villain in it.’ I told him that was one of the things I learned in college after the war.

Kurt Vonnegut

Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours.

Charley Reese

Our Founding Fathers were proud that Americans were trusted with arms because they knew that only when people are armed could they truly be thought of as free citizens. And that's where the circle closes. Those who want to deprive you of your right to keep and bear arms are intending to deprive you of your freedom, period. Like the criminals their policies encourage, these elitists know that it is always best to disarm victims before you enslave them.

Charley Pride

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

Charles Lindbergh

Peace is a virgin who dare not show her face without Strength, her father, for protection.

Charles Koch

My father wanted to instill the work ethic. And, because he knew if you don't learn to work to be more productive to improve your efficiency, to cooperate with other people at an early age, you may never learn those habits.

Charles Kuralt

When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.

Ai Weiwei

I always admire writers. My father was a writer, a poet. I always admire people who can clearly state their mind.

Bob Monkhouse

My father was ruined by hard drink - he sat on an icicle.

Bob Monkhouse

My father only hit me once, but he used a Volvo.

Bob Newhart

In today's world, you would call my father mostly unaccessible. I'm not sure that isn't true of most fathers at that time. He went through the Depression. I don't know what that would have done to my psyche.

Bill Paxton

Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate.

Bill Russell

My father once told me that anyone who worked for three dollars an hour owed it to himself to put in four dollars' worth of work.

Bill Joy

That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain.

For years I thought my father was a hunchback. Turns out he didn't know suspenders were adjustable.

Bill Johnson

Nothing compares with the satisfaction of pleasing the heart of our heavenly Father.

Bill Johnson

Our assignment is to see the dominion of God realized into people's lives. It is not an overpowering control, it is a life-giving, liberating experience with the almighty God, who is an ultimate, perfect Father who loves to bring liberty and freedom to His people.

Betty White

I've always had a bawdy sense of humor. My father was a traveling salesman and he would bring jokes home. He would say, "Honey, you can take this one to school, but you can't take that one to school."

Beyonce Knowles

He will change diapers, of course he will. He is going to be a very hands-on father.

Bernard Williams

The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate.