Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Reagan

I know all the bad things that happened in that war. I was in uniform four years myself.

Ronald Reagan

... the moral equal of our Founding Fathers.

Ronald Reagan

I have a feeling that we are doing better in the war than the people have been told.

Ronald Reagan

I've said it before and I'll say it again. The U.S. Geological Survey has told me that the proven potential for oil in Alaska alone is greater than the proven reserves in Saudi Arabia.

Ronald Reagan

Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen.

Romain Rolland

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Sam Kinison

What happened? Satan was busy?

Sam Kinison

If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.

Sam Kinison

I called a detox center - just to see how much it would cost: $13,000 for three weeks! My friends, if you can come up with thirteen grand, you don't have a problem yet.

Sam Levenson

Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.

Sam Levenson

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.

Sam Levenson

The whole world is watching America, and America is watching TV.

Sam Levenson

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

Sally Phillips

I have a lot of funny friends, though not everyone's funny all the time. Doon Mackichan's my funniest friend in the pub; Nina Conti's the funniest with a monkey.

Tom Petty

It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.

Simone de Beauvoir

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

Simon Schama

Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is... difficult to think of a single natural system that has not, for better or worse, been substantially modified by human culture. The cultural habits of humanity have always made room for the sacredness of nature.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Mr. Speaker. I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member may place the punctuation where he pleases.

Remy de Gourmont

Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.

Richard Branson

The funny thing is people won't let me pay for things. I'll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, 'Oh no, it's on the house.'

Tippi Hedren

Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older.

Tippi Hedren

One lion thinks it's just hilarious to tackle us. He's very funny about it... and we always know when it will happen.

Tippi Hedren

Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.

Robert A. Heinlein

Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.

Robert A. Heinlein

Are you trying to tell all of us we have a bad signal-to-noise ratio?

Robert A. Heinlein

Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.

Robert A. Heinlein

If I had a Boy Scout I could make a fire by rubbing his hind legs together.

Robert A. Heinlein

There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled Nature.'" The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of "Nature" : but beavers and their dams are.

Rita Coolidge

Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Ringo Starr

America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.

Rihanna

My knees on the ground, dear father, don't let me break, please make me stronger.

Tim Allen

Can a woodchuck chuck wood? Because the question is, "how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if," so you haven't established or proved without any shadow of a doubt that a woodchuck could chuck wood. Frankly, I believe that they chew wood. I don't think they can chuck wood at all! I take offense to the whole chucking question.

Tim Allen

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.