Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Hiddleston

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

Tom Hiddleston

Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.

Tom Cruise

Being a Scientologist, when you drive past an accident... you know you have to do something about it because you know you're the only one that can really help.

Sloan Wilson

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Sinclair Lewis

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

Sinclair Lewis

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

James Russell Lowell

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of the oncoming train.

James Russell Lowell

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

Laurence J. Peter

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Laurence J. Peter

Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.

Laurence J. Peter

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Laurence J. Peter

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

Laurence Sterne

Upon looking back from the end of the last chapter and surveying the texture of what has been wrote, it is necessary, that upon this page and the five following, a good quantity of heterogeneous matter be inserted, to keep up that just balance betwixt wisdom and folly, without which a book would not hold together a single year.

Laurence Sterne

There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.

Laura Dern

You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin

Larry Gelbart

Television is a weapon of mass distractrion.

Larry Gelbart

Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Let me tell you, honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.

Socrates

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

Socrates

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

Mercedes McCambridge

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room

Michelle Pfeiffer

Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.

Sheryl Crow

People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I'm too young, too smart and too good-looking to die.

Terry Pratchett

The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

Terry Pratchett

...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.

Nigella Lawson

If I could go into the woods and kill a bear myself, I'd wear it proudly as a trophy.

Nicolas Chamfort

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Nicolas Chamfort

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

Nicolas Chamfort

Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

Nicolas Chamfort

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.

Nicolas Chamfort

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.