Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ethan Hawke

The kindest compliments I have ever heard are when cops tell me Training Day and Assault on Precinct 13 inspired them to become cops. The funniest compliments I have ever heard are when people tell me that 'I love your band Sugar Ray.

Errol Flynn

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

Errol Flynn

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

Ernesto Sábato

The first time I passed through the country (Switzerland) I had the impression it was swept down with a broom from one end to the other every morning by housewives who dumped all the dirt in Italy.

Ernest Thompson Seton

Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dogs.

Ernest Shackleton

Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success.

Ernest Bevin

If you open that Pandora's Box you never know what Trojan 'orses will jump out.

Cassandra Clare

That sounds terrific, thought Cary, just you, your comatose wife your shell-shocked son, and your daughter who hates your guts. Not to mention that your two kids may be in love with each other. Yeah, that sounds like a perfect family reunion.

Cassandra Clare

If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you are now.

Caroline Rhea

Before we got engaged, he never farted. Now it's a second language.

Caroline Rhea

Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they're home. I'm that way at Saks.

Carmelo Anthony

I think I'm the most underrated superstar that's out there, but that doesn't matter to me.

Kai Ryssdal

The funny thing is, I really feel it if I don't run. I start getting sluggish, and I feel like I need to do it. That's how I know that the workouts are working - I miss them if I don't have them.

Eva Gabor

I believe in loyalty. When a woman reaches an age she likes, she should stick with it.

Jeremy Northam

The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.

Jeremy Paxman

The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.

Jenny McCarthy

I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don't know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh.

Glen Hansard

You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings. Like it's a collection of your diary entries and you pick which one's gonna make the most sense together and you put out a record and you sort of live it.

Glenn Close

Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.

Gilda Radner

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

Harry Vardon

Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.

Frank Zappa

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

Frank Zappa

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

Frank Zappa

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

Frank Zappa

If you really love guitar, you're going to spend every waking hour stroking the thing.

Frank Zappa

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

Frank Zappa

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

Frank Zappa

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

Frank Zappa

A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.