Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Petty

If you're not getting older, you're dead.

Tom Peters

I found myself declaiming, full flower, for an hour on the "utmost importance and urgency" of Blogging, telling him in no uncertain terms that, especially in a high-end niche business, Blogging is "the premier way" to have "intimate conversations" with his Clients. Funny thing, I believe it!

Tom Robbins

There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance.

Tom Robbins

Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.

Tom Robbins

Well, there's one thing to be said for money. It can make you rich.

Tom Robbins

Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.

Tom Robbins

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

Tom Lehrer

The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.

Tom Lehrer

Be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.

Tom Lehrer

Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now, to quote myself at my most pretentious, is a nimiety of scurrility with a concomitant exiguity of taste.

Tom Lehrer

I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.

Tom Lehrer

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

Tom Arnold

My wife's nagging is like living near the airport. After a while you don't notice it any more.

Steve Wozniak

I think that the anti-Microsoft sentiment is simply due to their having been so successful selling a lot of crap.

Steve Allen

Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.

Stephen Crane

A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.

Vanilla Ice

I don't know all the certain words to word it.

V. S. Pritchett

The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour varies its note, changes its key, grows and spreads and deepens until it may indeed reach tragic depths.

Tucker Max

The haters always scream the loudest.

Suzanne Collins

Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.

Stevie Wonder

Time is long but life is short.

Stevie Wonder

Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.

Steven Moffat

It's a funny thing about stories. It doesn't feel like you make them up, more like you find them. You type and type and you know you haven't got it yet, because somewhere out there, there's that perfect thing -- the unexpected ending that was always going to happen. That place you've always been heading for, but never expected to go.

Susan Hayward

My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax.

Steven Weinberg

It does not matter whether you win or lose, what matters is whether I win or lose!

Robby Krieger

I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music.

Richard Simmons

One day I may be meeting you and hearing how you've changed your life by saying, "Farewell to Fat".

Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.

Redd Foxx

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

Red Skelton

She has an electric blender, electric toaster and electric bread maker. She said "There are too many gadgets and no place to sit down!" So I bought her an electric chair.

Red Skelton

I asked my wife where she wanted to go for our anniversary. 'Somewhere I haven't been in a long time!' she said. So I suggested the kitchen.

Red Skelton

Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.

Raymond Carver

There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.