Famous Quotes & Sayings

Morey Amsterdam

A Cannibal is a person who walks into a restaurant and orders a waiter.

Morey Amsterdam

My neighbor has two dogs. One of them says to the other, "Woof!" The other replies, "Moo!" The dog is perplexed. "Moo? Why did you say 'Moo'?" The other dog says, "I'm trying to learn a foreign language."

Mordecai Richler

Edmonton is not the end of the world but you can certainly see it from there.

Miles Davis

I would never try and play like Harry James, because I don't like his tone - for me. It's just white. You know what I mean? He has what we black trumpet players call a white sound. But it's for white music ... I can tell a white trumpet player, just listening to a record. There'll be something he'll do that'll let me know that he's white.

Miles Davis

You can't eat a winner's plaque.

Milan Kundera

The best actors do not let the wheels show.

Mike Leigh

Resolve was never stronger than in the morning, after the night, when it was never weaker

Joseph Addison

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Lauryn Hill

I consider myself a crayon... I may not be your favorite color but one day you'll need me to complete your picture.

Laura Kightlinger

I'm still going on bad dates when by now I should be in a bad marriage.

Lana Turner

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

Lance Berkman

It is, ... kind of a softball atmosphere out there.

Lisa Kudrow

Is it me? Is it like I have a beacon that only dogs and men with severe emotional problems can hear?

Johnny Depp

When I'm at our house in France I totally cut myself off from the rest of the world. I never have to listen to phones ringing and that's because - and Vanessa would confirm this - phones are banned from the house. We have a beautiful life and I feel that spending time in France has just calmed me down and made me stop worrying about things which aren't really important.

Johnny Depp

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

Johnny Depp

Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and in the end, gravity will get us all.

Johnny Depp

I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.

Johnny Depp

If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me.

John Rawls

Man is a historical being : The realisations of the powers of human individuals living at any one time takes the cooperation of many generations (or even societies) over a long period of time. By contrast with humankind, every individual animal can and does do what for the most part it might do, or what any other of its kind might or can do that lives at the same time.

John Otway

Every prosperous person who does not work has a creative scheme that does.

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.