Famous Quotes & Sayings

L. Neil Smith

As Al Franken has demonstrated, liberals give lousy talk radio.

L. Neil Smith

Economists tell us that the 'price' of an object and its 'value' have very little or nothing to do with one another. 'Value' is entirely subjective economic value, anyway while 'price' reflects whatever a buyer is willing to give up to get the object in question, and whatever the seller is willing to accept to give it up. Both are governed by the Law of Marginal Utility, which is actually a law of psychology, rather than economics. For government to attempt to dictate a 'fair price' betrays complete misunderstanding of the entire process.

L. Neil Smith

Know when to give up a lost cause. Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.

Lillian Gish

It had been drilled into us that when an audience pays to see a performance, it is entitled to the best performance you can give.Nothing in your personal life must interfere, neither fatigue, illness, nor anxiety--not even joy.

Lillian Gish

What you get is a living-what you give is a life.

P. J. O'Rourke

What use is it to endure the Dutch Rubs and Indian Rope Burns that are politics if you can't obtain mastery over people and give them noogies back?

P. J. O'Rourke

A firm, hearty handshake gives a good first impression, and you'll never be forgiven if you don't live up to it.

Pablo Picasso

Computers are useless - all they can give you are answers.

Pablo Picasso

The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.

Pablo Picasso

Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.

Paul Stanley

Whenever anybody comes to me with a way that I can give something back, it would be ungrateful at this point in my life to not say yes.

Paul Stanley

When you're in a position to have gotten so much, the gift at this point is giving back.

Paul Mellon

When you give away large sums of money, you can cause as much damage as you may do good.

I never wanted to do away with my intensity because I felt it was a gift that helped put fuel in my engine, giving me exceptional drive and energy.

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat.

Paul Celan

There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German.

Paul Cezanne

The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.

Patti LuPone

The only thing we are as actors are messengers. That's all we are. Correct? We are delivering the playwright's intention through the concept of the director. And I come on stage; if I feel confident in the role, then I give it away.

Patsy Cline

It sure gives me faith and a wonderful feeling to know how many fans and friends are wanting me well again.

Patricia MacLachlan

Sometimes poetry--words--give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough.

Patricia Velasquez

The universe always gives you what you need to grow into the person you are destined to become.

Patricia Velasquez

It takes one person to give you a big chance.

Patricia Velasquez

The universe only gives you what you can handle, so trust that whatever is happening to you is exactly what you need. Just trust. Have certainty!

Patricia Marx

What can you give a friend who has everything? Shelves.

Patricia Schroeder

Those who declared librarians obsolete when the Internet rage first appeared are now red-faced. We need them more than ever. The Internet is full of 'stuff' but its value and readability is often questionable. 'Stuff' doesn't give you a competitive edge, high-quality related information does.

Oscar Wilde

He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

Oscar Wilde

I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane. It never is, sir. Lane, you're a perfect pessimist. I do my best to give satisfaction, sir.

Oscar Wilde

because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.

Oscar Wilde

Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

Oscar Wilde

Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .

Oscar Wilde

One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

Oscar Wilde

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

Oscar Wilde

It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless.