Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Nagel

What is it like to be a bat? What is it like for a bat to be a bat?

Thomas Paine

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

Timothy Leary

LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.

Timothy Leary

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Thomas Sowell

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Walt Whitman

I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

Saul Bellow

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.

Saul Bellow

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Sarah Jessica Parker

He's the funniest, smartest person I know. It doesn't mean he doesn't bug me and I'm sure I bug him sometimes.

Sandra Bullock

Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'

Roseanne Barr

I know how to do anything, I'm a mom.

Roseanne Barr

The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.

Roseanne Barr

My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.

Roseanne Barr

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

A lot of people wonder how you can tell if you're really in love. Just ask yourself this question: 'Would I mind being financially destroyed by this person?'

Roger Ebert

Here's how much I know about hockey. Mike Royko and I were in a tiny bar one winter night, and the radio kept reporting goals by the Blackhawks. I mentioned how frequently the team was scoring. 'You're listening to the highlights,' Royko observed.

Rod Serling

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

Robert Quillen

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

Satchel Paige

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.

Satchel Paige

Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.

Satchel Paige

I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.

Satchel Paige

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

Sarah Vowell

I probably am a cranky writer, but I am actually a fairly nice, normal person. Since I'm a grouchy writer, of course I have friends whose books are doing way better than mine.

Sandra Boynton

Research tells us that fourteen out of any ten individuals like chocolate.

Samuel Johnson

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Ricky Davis

I thought LeBron James was just going to be another addition to help me score

Richard Lewis

I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.

Richard Lewis

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

Richard Lerner

AT&T to wed T-Mobile. Following the ceremony there will be no reception.

Richard M. Nixon

Solutions are not the answer.

Richard M. Nixon

I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes.

Richard M. Nixon

This is a great day for France!

Richard M. Nixon

Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use.