Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Rick Reilly

The best thing to ever happen to marriage is the pause-live-TV button.

The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.

Cheri Oteri

The funny thing is, I was never purposely blonde. I just got highlights, and then you get highlights over highlights, and then it looks like you're blonde.

Chad Brown

The funny thing is, I've watched games from last year, practices from last year,

Jerry Bailey

The funny thing is, he went out, so I was losing more ground the first 50 or 60 yards. But once I got him going, he settled down. He was pretty relaxed.

The funny thing is, ... Colleen, Margo and I all sat together. You could see us on the tape, right there in the bottom-right corner. Every time I watch it, I see us there together.

The funny thing is 99 percent of the responses we've gotten have all been congratulatory or offers to work with us.

Andre Gide

The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.

Maria Sharapova

The funny thing was, he started clapping for me after that. I think he got scared. Then when I was waving to that side (after winning), he's like.

LeAnn Rimes

The funny thing is the songs that people think are about me probably aren't. And the songs that are probably are the ones they wouldn't think... so that's where it kind of is funny.

Edward de Bono

I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

John F. Kennedy

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

John F. Kennedy

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Jonathan Franzen

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

Jonathan Demme

It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a fictional film you want it to feel as realistic as a documentary film.

Jon Stewart

We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea.

Jon Stewart

Here’s how bizarre the war is that we’re in in Iraq, and we should have known this right from the get-go: When we first went into Iraq, Germany didn’t want to go. Germany. The Michael Jordan of war took a pass.

Jon Stewart

That's the beauty of our show. Comedy or politics. We're sort of a mix. A space age polymer of both. A synthetic comedy-like material.

Jon Stewart

Happy Valentine's Day! And if this is news to you, my guess is you're probably alone. Valentine's Day is often times a, well, it's a manufactured day that really doesn't mean anything.

Jon Stewart

We declared war on terror-it's not even a noun, so, good luck.