Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.

Marissa Mayer

Vince Lombardi says, you know, in my life there are three things: God, family, and the Green Bay Packers, in that order. For me, it's God, family, and Yahoo, in that order.

Maynard James Keenan

People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.

Socrates

The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.

Margaret Cho

I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself.

Mark Twain

Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.

Nicki Minaj

I'm in my dressing room about to play to a sold-out crowd at the O2 arena in Ireland. Name a female rapper who's ever done that and I will give you $100,000.

Geraldine Ferraro

It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods.

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.

Rajneesh

Laughing, how can you fall asleep? It brings a state of no-mind and no-thought, and does not allow you to fall asleep.

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.

Isaac Asimov

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

Harriet Martineau

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

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.

H. L. Mencken

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

Phil Rizzuto

I'm glad I don't play anymore. I could never learn all those handshakes.

John Desmond Bernal

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

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.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

John Kenneth Galbraith

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

Jonathan Raban

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

Robert A. Heinlein

Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.

Tom Jones

Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That's why I love vegetables, you know what they're about!

S. I. Hayakawa

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

Shania Twain

I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.

Savannah Guthrie

I've tried many different types of alarm apps, but the tried and true is the iPhone alarm. I like it because you can label your alarms. For my personal amusement, I've labeled them 3 a.m. for 'ridiculously early,' 3:30 is just 'early,' and 4 is 'slacker.'

Terry Pratchett

There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.

Pamela Anderson

Men hunt I think maybe because they have something wrong with their own equipment and they need something else to shoot.