Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marshall McLuhan

Pornography and obscenity...work by specialism and fragmentation. They deal with a figure without a ground -- situations in which the human factor is suppressed in favor of sensations and kicks.

Publilius Syrus

He who boasts of a favor bestowed, would like it back again.

Publilius Syrus

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

Publilius Syrus

It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.

Publilius Syrus

The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.

Publilius Syrus

When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company.

Publilius Syrus

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

Neil Strauss

After all, everyone's favorite subject is themselves.

Kay Redfield Jamison

The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.

Kazuo Ishiguro

What I wished more than anything was that the thing hadn't happened at all, and I thought that by not mentioning it I'd be doing everyone else a favor.

Margaret Atwood

What is your favorite word?” “And. It is so hopeful.

Hillary Clinton

The deck is still stacked in favor of those already at the top. And there's something wrong with that. There's something wrong when CEOs make 300 times more than the typical worker.

Eugene Jarecki

To say that Reagan teaches us that we should be against amnesty for illegal immigrants is to contradict what Reagan himself stood for - that he was in favor of amnesty.

In my opinion, the virus is probably mutating in a manner favorable to humans.

Mike Krzyzewski

I just felt it (Friday) at practice, that we were finally in the NCAA Tournament. Southern did us a favor by playing so well. We needed to get on to the next thing.

Martin Freeman

I read 'Animal Farm' when I was 11, and it remained my favorite book, really.

Gary Johnson

I personally would not be in favor of those. My guess is they're always at a reasonably high rate.

Clay's the favorite to win discus and the shot put. He qualified for state as a sophomore last year in the discus.

I have to look at Jesuit right now as the favorites if I had to pick one. They'll be a good test.

Trevor Pryce

In the playoffs, there's such a thin needle between the teams, but that thin needle can become a machete very quickly when you're playing a lopsided crowd, lopsided game, lopsided place when everything's so out of favor, ... In the regular season, there's things in your favor - you're playing for a playoff spot, they might not be - there's things you can work with, something to grab onto. The playoffs you have nothing.

Greg Biffle

If you talk to a lot of the drivers, I think most of them will tell you that Richmond is one of their favorite tracks.

Frank Robinson

Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let that pitcher get me out. They say you can't hit if you're on your back, but I didn't hit on my back. I got up.

George Hickenlooper

Im very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.

Doc Rivers

Chicago's speed and their pick-and-roll has given Miami trouble in the past. At the end of the day though, size will win out and that will favor Miami.

Goodness gets a seat. - Igala, Nigeria. (Pachocinski, p. 224; explanation: good people will be shown favors and will live longer).

Mike Campbell

Caleb tried some things, and he got himself into a situation where it wasn't favorable for us.

Andrea Tantaros

He's saying favorable things. They have a good relationship.

I don't really have a favorite event, I like them all.

Jeaniene Frost

One of my favorite things about supernatural fiction is its vast array of creatures.

George Sand

Nature distributes her favors unequally.

Seth Godin

My new favorite word is 'awkward.'...Th e reason we need to be in search of awkward is that awkward is the barrier between us and excellence, between where we are and the remarkable. If it were easy, everyone would have done it already, and it wouldn't be worth the effort.

Seth Godin

The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately.

Mariano Rajoy

I am in favor of reducing all budget items. But the item I don't want to reduce is the pension expenditure because it affects the weakest part of society.