Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred Hitchcock

There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

Alfred Hitchcock

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.

Alfred Hitchcock

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

Alfred Hitchcock

Puns are the highest form of literature.

Alfred Hitchcock

I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

Alfred Hitchcock

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Alf Landon

Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.

Angela Carter

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Amy Vanderbilt

Everyone knows that a man can marry even if he reaches the age of 102, is penniless, and has all his facilities gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him.

Amy Schumer

I'll never forget how she told us. She took us all out to brunch, and she was like, 'You guys, I'm keeping this one.'

Amy Schumer

Don't feel bad for me. I think I'm, like, so pretty.

Amy Schumer

We had to break up, though. We wanted different things - like he wanted kids and I wanted him to hear.

Alphonse Allais

Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.

Anthony Burgess

We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.

Andy Summers

Aping what you've already done is just so dangerous and unrewarding.

Andy Samberg

I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops.

Andy Rooney

Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.

Andy Rooney

You really can't blame the military for wanting to go to war [in Iraq]. They've got all these new toys and they want to know whether they work or not.

Andy Rooney

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

Andy Rooney

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

Andy Warhol

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

Andy Warhol

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

Andy Warhol

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

Andy Warhol

I am a deeply superficial person.

Andre Dawson

I want all the kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I want all the kids to copulate me.

Andre Gide

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Aneurin Bevan

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.

Anatole France

To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.

Anatole France

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

Anatole France

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Amanda Seyfried

The funny thing is, the girls that I'm always up against for roles are pretty nice and cool, like Emma Watson. She's awesome.

Anjelica Huston

Of course drugs were fun. And that's what's so stupid about anti-drug campaigns: they don't admit that. I can't say I feel particularly scarred or lessened by my experimentation with drugs. They've gotten a very bad name.

Chuck Palahniuk

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.