Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seth Godin

Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.

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.

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.

John Peers

Never stand between a dog and the hydrant.

John Paxson

Magic Johnson is the best player who plays on the ground, and Michael Jordan is the best player who plays in the air.

Norman Douglas

Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.

Norman Chad

If you wagered $5,000 on each of my winning NFL picks in 2012 and $500 ($550) on each of my losing picks, you'd be ahead $70,050. Wow.

Norman Chad

Nate Silver is now forecasting Oscar winners. The only area of life in which he has no expertise, ironically, is life itself.

Norman Chad

If one official signals Falcons ball and Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson signals Seahawks ball, is it a jump ball?

Norman Chad

Seahawks beat Cardinals, 58-0. If Patriots beat Texans, 58-0, it will be first time in NFL history there were two 58-0 games in same week.

Norm Crosby

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

Norm MacDonald

My dad died, and my grandfather died, and my great-grandfather died. And the guy before him, I don't know. Probably died.

Norm MacDonald

My dad had this thing - everyone in Canada wants to play hockey; that's all they want to do. So when I was a kid, whenever we skated my dad would not let us on the ice without hockey sticks, because of this insane fear we would become figure skaters!

Noel Coward

I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) . . . I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night after night to the theatre and know so little about it.

Noel Coward

Never trust a man with short legs. His brains are too near his bottom.

Noel Coward

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Noel Coward

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.

Noel Coward

The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the Upper Classes, Have still the Upper Hand.

Noel Coward

It's like this, dear boy, the one in front is blind and the kind one behind is pushing him.

Noel Coward

I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.

Noel Coward

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Mike Tyson

My main objective is to be professional but to kill him.

Miguel de Cervantes

All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.

Miguel de Cervantes

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

Miguel de Cervantes

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.