Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eleanor Mondale

I like being involved in the lighter side of journalism because it serves a purpose, and it's fun. And I can keep my opinions off camera if I want.

Eldridge Cleaver

Too much agreement kills a chat.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

Elbert Hubbard

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

Elbert Hubbard

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

Elbert Hubbard

Blessed is the man who has found someone to do his work.

Elbert Hubbard

The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.

Elbert Hubbard

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Elbert Hubbard

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

Elbert Hubbard

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Edsger Dijkstra

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

Edward Abbey

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.

Edward Abbey

The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.

Edward Abbey

So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probably be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.

Edward Abbey

A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.

Edward Abbey

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

Eddie Rickenbacker

The biggest lesson I've learned . . . was that if you have all the fresh water you want to drink and all the food you want to eat, you ought never to complain about anything.

Aubrey Beardsley

I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse myself, and if it has amused the public as well, so much the better for me.

Aubrey Plaza

It's such a thing now, people making fun of other people on the Internet.

Aristotle

The appropriate age for marrige is around eighteen and thirty-seven for man

Aristotle

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

Aristotle

Walked right by an ex-girlfriend today. Not on purpose, I just didn't recognize her with her mouth closed.

Ben Hogan

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?

Ben Harper

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

Ben Jonson

Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!

We're going down there with the idea he's a junior and let's have fun.

We're looking at using the funds strategically for market and merit raises.

We're looking at several different sources. We haven't secured a particular funding stream yet.

Alexandre Aja

It's always very interesting to bet who's going to go first and who is going to have the most unbelievable death. It's always fun to play with that and create more expectation. It's an interesting part of horror movie.

Alexandra Stoddard

The choices that make a significant difference in our lives are the tough ones. They're not often fun or easy, but they're the ones we have to make, and each is a deliberate step toward better understanding who we really are.

Alexandra Roach

I think the most important thing is to have fun, and not to take things too seriously. Once you start doing that, then you'll start to crumble.