Famous Quotes & Sayings

T. Boone Pickens

Fundamentals make the market.

T. Harv Eker

Do you want a successful career or a close relationship with your family? Both! Do you want a focus on business or have fun and play? Both! Do you want money or meaning in your life? Both! Do you want to earn a fortune or do the work you love? Both! Poor people always choose one, rich people choose both.

T. S. Eliot

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'

T. S. Eliot

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

T. S. Eliot

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

Sydney Pollack

I love having made a film and watching it when it affects audiences in a positive way. It was always fun for me to hide in the back of a theater and watch Tootsie with an audience and hear them laugh. And it's gratifying 20 years later to imagine that they still can find it amusing.

Sydney J. Harris

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'

Sydney J. Harris

When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?

Sydney J. Harris

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

Sylvester Stallone

Boxing is a great exercise ... as long as you can yell "cut" whenever you want to.

Susan Sontag

Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get on a television show to reveal.

Susan Sontag

Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.

Susan Sontag

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Taylor Kitsch

My sister is 16 and I tell her to take risks. Really explore and meet as many people as you can. Do as much as you can before reality kicks in. Have fun.

Scott Westerfeld

Making ourselves feel ugly is not fun." "We are ugly.

Scott Westerfeld

You're insane!" she shouted. "Pretty cool, huh?" "No!"Tally yelled. "Why didn't you tell me it was broken?" Shay shrugged. "More fun that way?" "More fun?" Her heart beating fast,her vision strangely clear. She was full of anger and relief and...joy. "Well, kind of. But you suck!

Scott Westerfeld

the parties are no fun until everyone gets drunk

Scott Westerfeld

I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.

Scott Adams

If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it.

Scott Adams

No matter how many times I visit New York City, I am always struck by the same thing - a yellow taxicab.

Scott Adams

I wish I were dumber so I could be more certain about my opinions. It looks fun.

Scott Adams

As a fan, I'm distraught, but as a cartoonist looking at new vacant spaces in 2400 newspapers, well, behind me, my cats are dancing a conga line.

Scott Adams

I never knew what an engineer did for a living when I was a kid. I still don't.

Scott Adams

There's a fine line between marketing and grand theft.

Scott Adams

Crackpot is an excellent job because the expectations are so low. No one ever tells crackpots that they should be doing more.

Scott Adams

The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.

Scott Adams

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Joseph Epstein

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

Joss Whedon

There's a reason Tony Stark makes fun of 'Thor,' and mentions 'Shakespeare' in the park in 'The Avengers.' It's great to play high drama and comedy alongside a modern story.

Joss Whedon

When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?' Obviously there are differences between men and women - that's what makes it all fun. But we're all people. There's a lot of good writers who are very humanist, but still manage to kind of skip fifty-five per cent of the race. And I just don't get that. Not to be able to write an entire gender? To me, the question isn't how do you do it? It's how can you possibly avoid doing it?

Joss Whedon

Every writer loves the idea of being able to go in and fix a problem and then leave without obligation. It's fun!

Joss Whedon

If the apocalypse comes...beep me!

Joss Whedon

TV's like whitewater rafting: Without rocks, there wouldn't be rapids, and it wouldn't be as much fun.