Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Thomas Carlyle

A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.

Thomas Carlyle

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Thomas Carlyle

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

Thomas Carlyle

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

Tony Curtis

I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

Tommy Lasorda

I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.

Tommy Lasorda

I walk into the clubhouse today and it's like walking into the Mayo Clinic. We have four doctors, three therapists and five trainers. Back when I broke in, we had one trainer who carried a bottle of rubbing alcohol, and by the 7th inning he'd already drunk it.

Tommy Lasorda

Talking about your troubles is no good. Eighty percent of your friends don't care and the rest are glad.

Tom Wilson

I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.

Tom Wolfe

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Tom Waits

On my gravestone, I want it to say, "I told you I was sick."

Tom Waits

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

Tom Shales

"More fun than a barrel of monkeys." Has anyone ever stopped to think how cranky, if not downright vicious, a barrelful of monkeys would be, especially once released from the barrel?

Tom Sizemore

It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit.

Steven Spielberg

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

Steve McConnell

It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.

Steve McConnell

Good code is its own best documentation. As you're about to add a comment, ask yourself, "How can I improve the code so that this comment isn't needed?" Improve the code and then document it to make it even clearer.

Steve Nash

I'm not going to retire because I want the money. We want honest athletes, but at the same time, you're going to have people saying, 'He's so greedy. He's made X amount of money, and he has to take that last little bit.' Yes, I do have to take that last little bit. I'm sorry if that is frustrating to some, but if they were in my shoes, they would do exactly the same thing.

Steve Martin

I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.