Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chelsea Clinton

I'm a big health food freak and a vegetarian devotee.

Charlyne Yi

Interviewing is tough, especially if you don't know what you're looking for.

John Desmond Bernal

The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes.

Jonathan Raban

I ain't sleeping. I'm just taking a good look at the insides of my eyelids.

Malcolm Forbes

The key to success is not through achievement, but through enthusiasm.

Malcolm Forbes

The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

Ellen DeGeneres

It must be around forty, when you're "over the hill." I don't even know what that means and why it's a bad thing. When I go hiking and I get over the hill, that means I'm past the hard part and there's a snack in my future. That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

Henri Matisse

When you're out of willpower you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

Edsger Dijkstra

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

H. L. Mencken

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

Erma Bombeck

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Henny Youngman

When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win.

Isaac Asimov

The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.

Ellen DeGeneres

I had no intention of becoming a comedian. I just wanted to make people happy. I tried everything-I shucked oysters, I painted houses, I sold vacuum cleaners. But there was always a voice saying, You should be doing something different. And it was usually my boss and I was being fired.

Jim Beaver

While I was drying off Maddie after her bath tonight, she said, 'I love you' to me for the first time. It sounded like 'All lub boo,' but I didn't care. To reciprocate, I showed her what an ex-Marine looks like when he cries.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Harriet Martineau

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

George Bernard Shaw

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

George Bernard Shaw

The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

Carly Fiorina

The data is clear: If you give a woman an opportunity, she will make a huge difference.

Frank Zappa

Don't mind your make-up, you'd better make your mind up.

Greg Mortenson

When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.

Jay Leno

You know what they say when a supermodel gets pregnant? Now she's eating for one.

Mindy Kaling

There are so many distractions you can face as a woman, either with relationships or worrying about, Should I go to this party? or, Should I be doing this to help me get ahead? All [success] is, is doing your work and staying focused. It's boring advice, but boring good advice is what you can get from me!

Kenneth Williams

The nicest thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.

H. L. Mencken

The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.

H. L. Mencken

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

Jessamyn West

A good time for laughing is when you can.

Hippocrates

Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.

Hippocrates

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.