Famous Quotes & Sayings

T. S. Eliot

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'

T. S. Eliot

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

Sydney J. Harris

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'

Sydney J. Harris

When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?

Sydney J. Harris

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

Sylvester Stallone

Boxing is a great exercise ... as long as you can yell "cut" whenever you want to.

Susan Sontag

Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get on a television show to reveal.

Susan Sontag

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Ronnie Barker

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.

Ron Atkinson

Well, Clive, it's all about the two Ms - movement and positioning.

Ron Atkinson

I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat.

Ron Atkinson

I'm going to make a prediction - it could go either way.

Truman Capote

It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.

Triple H

I'm bi-lots of things but lingual isn't one of them. Wait, did I mean to say that?

Rex Stout

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

Raymond Chandler

He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.

Raymond Chandler

It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.

Raymond Chandler

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.

Raymond Chandler

From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.

Rick Riordan

She said this in the same way you might say Fields of Punishment or Hades's gym shorts.

Tracey Ullman

I think serial monogamy says it all.

Tracey Ullman

It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.

Tracey Ullman

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

Tori Spelling

It would be pretty funny to see a Beverly Hills white girl with mad rap skills.

Veronica Roth

Can you be a girl for a few seconds?" "I'm always a girl" I frown. "You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girl" I twirl my hair around my finger. "Kay.

Robert Graves

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

Rudyard Kipling

I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.

Sugar Ray Robinson

You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid.

Sugar Ray Robinson

My business is hurting people.

Studs Terkel

The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners to come away with. What's it like to be that goofy little soldier, scared stiff, with his bayonet aimed at Christ? What's it like to have been a woman in a defense-plant job during World War II? What's it like to be a kid at the front lines? It's all funny and tragic at the same time.

Stewart Brand

Whenever I hear the word "share" I would reach for a gun if I had one. "Share" is frequently followed by the word "feelings", and I have enough of my own thank you; please do us both a favor and repress yours.

Steve Coogan

In my mind God made Adam and Eve, he didn't make Adam and Steve.