Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert A. Heinlein

Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate — and quickly.

Rip Torn

I used to be friends with Miles Davis. He didn't like many folks. I lived across the street from him.

Ringo Starr

Wake up meat head, don't pretend that you are dead.

Tim McGraw

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them. Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.

Thomas Watson, Jr.

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Steven Wright

A friend of mine is into Voodoo Acupuncture. You don't have to go. You'll just be walking down the street and . . . ooooohhhhhh, that's much better.

Steven Wright

My friend Sally is a nudist. I went to her house. The closets have no doors. The walls are covered with see-through wallpaper.

Raymond Burr

Mixing with groups of people can be enjoyed, it is pleasing in a way that cannot be explained other than the temptation to become closer to one or the other.

Toni Morrison

Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event.

Toni Morrison

The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.

Toni Morrison

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

Tom Vilsack

My friends, history, history calls us to this time and to this place. A solemn choice rests with us - where do we go from here? Do we move slowly and incrementally? Or do we seize the challenge of our time and tackle the great issues of our day.

Tom Monaghan

In regard to dogs, my most memorable thoughts concern my daughter's dog and her fondness for them. In fact, one day while working at the office, she hosted a birthday party for one of her Newfoundlands and the party was attended by dogs of other coworkers. It was a hectic few hours, but I believe the guests enjoyed themselves.

Tom Hayden

They motivate us to play, be affectionate, seek adventure and be loyal.

Tina Fey

I still want Oprah to play my best friend. I want to spend time with Oprah.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

Sylvia Plath

We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.

Sylvia Plath

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

Rosalind Wiseman

You can't make someone be your best friend.

Rollo May

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

Rumi

A generous friend gives life for a friend let's rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another

Rumi

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

Rumi

Stay with friends who support you in these. Talk with them about sacred texts, and how you are doing, and how they are doing, and keep your practices together.

Tom Peters

Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how "open" you are, you'll end up surrounded by "yes people." It's hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.

Toby Keith

There's some nights I can't remember with friends I can't forget.

Steve Lopez

.. a friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself..

Thomas Carlyle

How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the help man can yield to man.

Tommy Rettig

Yeah, dog was this man's best friend, for sure.

Tom Waits

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.

Steve Miller

Well you've got a job and I've heard it before, and you're in the same line as Pussy Galore.

Steve Miller

You better not brag, you're a hunky old hag, and that goes for your mother, too.

Steve Berry

If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I'd be at the bottom, hoping to catch them.