Famous Quotes & Sayings

Linus Torvalds

I love making friends.... it's people I can't stand.

Linus Torvalds

Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter what the circumstances.

Linus Torvalds

When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, for free.'

Linus Torvalds

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

Lindsay Lohan

I want to go to Egypt and Japan and open orphanages... a chain of them.

Lindsay Lohan

It was a sobering experience.

Linda Ellerbee

It's not brain surgery. It's not nuclear physics. It's television. It's only television.

Linda Evangelista

I can do anything you want me to do so long as I dont have to speak

Leo Tolstoy

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Leslie Nielsen

Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished.

Leo Buscaglia

The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all

Lee Trevino

There are two things that won't last long in this world, and that's dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars.

Lee Trevino

My wife doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I don't have a good time.

Lee Trevino

Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.

Lady Gaga

I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

Lewis Grizzard

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Lewis Grizzard

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'

Lewis Grizzard

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Lew Wasserman

To err is human, to forgive is against company policy.

Lew Wallace

A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

Lewis Black

Well first of all, I'd just like to say that 2005 was a great year, if you like swimming through crap.

Lewis Black

I don't believe pumpkin pie is even made from pumpkin. I mean, how can something that smells that shitty make a pie so sweet? There's not enough sugar in the universe.

Lewis Black

This book is dedicated to all of my friends who helped me get to where I am today - you know who you are... and when I find you I am going to kill you.

Lewis Black

I had more material on weather than anyone else, I guess, ... back when I was traveling a lot on the road as a standup comic, between airport security and the weather... I just wanted to be prepared for sitting in the airport.

Lewis Black

People go to Vegas, and they don't know what to do; here's what you do. You go to the casino in your hotel. On your arrival, you get $100 in quarters. Take that $100 back to your hotel room and stare at it for a long, long time. Why? Because you're never going to see them again. Then you take those quarters to the bathroom and you flush them, one by one by one. And the nice thing about that is that every so often the toilet will back up, and you'll feel like a WINNER!

Lewis Black

Can somebody explain to me why Pepsi and Coke advertise? Are we missing something? Seriously, everyone in this room has drank enough Pepsi and Coke in their lifetime they could piss it for a week.

Lewis Black

If I wanted to be bored by 6,000 pages of unreadable dreck, I'd read War and Peace four times.

Lewis Black

They've gotta stop reporting wind chill. That's nonsense. It really is. I don't know where they came up with it, why they came up with it, but it's a lie. They come on, "Well, it's 27 degrees today, but with the wind chill, it's minus 3." ... Well, then it's minus 3, asshole! I don't need to know what the weather was like if the conditions were perfect!

Lewis Black

It was the coldest winter ever! I thought last winter was the coldest winter ever, but I was wrong now wasn't I? You see because I travel all the time. So last winter, I'd be in the midwest, and the blizzard would hit. And then I'd fly home, AND THE BLIZZARD WOULD HIT AGAIN!

Lewis Black

Now, most of the time you couldn't be too sure of the quality of the drug. Although, in my experience the stuff was always of a very high quality, because back then we didn't have business majors peddling lower-quality stuff in an effort to increase profits.

Lewis Black

If you are an adult, and you are planning to dress up on Halloween...don't. I will find you. I will hurt you.

Lewis Black

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

Lewis Black

All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.