Famous Quotes & Sayings

Noam Chomsky

If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship

Noam Chomsky

Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.

Noam Chomsky

If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

Noam Chomsky

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

Mike Myers

I had done Shrek as a Canadian and I'm very proud to be Canadian, but I knew I could give more to it.

Mike Pence

The Trump Foundation is a private-family foundation. They give virtually every cent in the Trump Foundation to charitable causes.

Joey Bishop

A salesman called on my wife the other day and tried to sell her a freezer. You'll save a fortune on your food bills, he promised. I can't tell you how much you'll save. It'll be tremendous. Said my wife: I'm sure you're right, but we're already saving a fortune with our new car by not taking the bus. We're saving a fortune with our new washing machine by not sending out the laundry. We're saving a fortune with our new dishwasher by giving up the maid. The plain truth is that right now we just can't afford to save any more!

Joey Ramone

Hang in there. If you believe what you're doing is unique. Otherwise give up or sound like Nirvana or Pearl Jam.

Joe Scarborough

Good rule to follow: never reward someone's incivility by giving them the headline they seek.

Joe Morton

If someone wants to give me the lead in anyone of those films, and deal with those other complications, terrific, Im ready for them.

Joe DiMaggio

There’s nobody taking center from me until I give it up.

Jodi Picoult

Witness testimony is always flawed. It's better than circumstantial evidence, sure, but people aren't camcorders; they don't record every action and reaction, and the very act of remembering involves chosing words, actions and images. In other words, any witness who was supposed to be giving a court facts is really just giving them a version of fiction.

Jodi Picoult

Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.

Jodi Picoult

There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.

Jodi Picoult

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.

Jodi Picoult

You can be strapped to the most stable chair and still feel the world give way beneath you.

John Gray

Take time off to give to yourself, in a sense to fill yourself up to fullness, to where now you can overflow in giving.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Thanks to Allah, who gives the palm!

John Green

I’ll give you my strength if I can have your remission.

John Green

He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn't give it the power to kill him.

John Green

It always happened like this: he would look and look for the keys to Satan’s Hearse and then finally he’d just give up and say, “Fine. I’ll take the fugging bus,” and on his way out the door, he’d see the keys. Keys show up when you reconcile yourself to the bus; Katherines appear when you start to disbelieve the world contains another Katherine; and, sure enough, the Eureka moment arrived just as he began to accept it would never come.

Pat Summitt

I don't give out compliments easily.

Pat Robertson

Lord, give us righteous judges who will not try to legislate and dominate this society. Take control, Lord! We ask for additional vacancies on the court.

P. D. James

gossip ... was like any other commodity in the marketplace. You received it only if you had something of value to give.

P. J. O'Rourke

The poor of the world cannot be made rich by the redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their money and giving it as a reward to people who have failed to escape.

P. J. O'Rourke

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

P. J. O'Rourke

If I give up drinking, smoking, and fatty foods, I can add ten years to my life. Trouble is, I'll add it to the wrong end.

P. J. O'Rourke

Taxi drivers all over the world, by the way, are under Newspaper Guild contract to give easy quotes to foreign correspondents.

Mary Quant

Risk it, go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks.

Mary Baker Eddy

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

Mary Baker Eddy

Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action.

Martin Fleischmann

If it had been anything else, we would have said, 'People don't want us to do it. Forget it. Let's just leave it alone.' But this is not in that category. This is interesting science. New science. With a hint of a possibility of a very useful technology. Therefore, if you've got any integrity, you don't give up. You only give up if you find you are wrong. But as long as you believe that you are right, you have to continue. And you have to take the consequences.

Martin Feldstein

After all, an overvalued dollar gives us the ability to buy foreign goods at lower prices. And the existing volume of exports brings more yen and euros than they would if the dollar were more competitive.