Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert Gottfried

A lot of people who claim they're political comedians are just comedians who have opinions. But they stop being funny the minute they give their opinions.

Gilbert Gottfried

Every time I give a straight answer and read it in a magazine, I say, 'Ouch.' One day I'd like to talk to a psychoanalyst about why celebrities reveal so much of themselves in interviews.

Gerard Way

I just wanna kind of give the world something special.

Gerard Way

All we ever wanna do is inspire somebody to be who they wanna be and to give them a little bit of hope.

Havelock Ellis

One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.

Hayao Miyazaki

[on the future of hand-drawn animation] I'm actually not that worried. I wouldn't give up on it completely. Once in a while there are strange, rich people who like to invest in odd things. You're going to have people in the corners of garages making cartoons to please themselves. And I'm more interested in those people than I am in big business.

Hans Kung

That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.

Hans Christian Andersen

But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?

George Wald

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one. It can give us no protection-only the doubtful satisfaction of retaliation.

George Washington Carver

I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets . . .

George Washington Carver

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also – if you love them enough.

George Washington

One thing and only one thing a Masonic Lodge can give its members which they can get nowhere else in the world. That one thing is Masonry.

George Washington

Speak not injurious words, neither in jest nor earnest. Scoff at none though they give occasion.

George Washington

It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.

George Washington

In disputes, be not so desirous to overcome as to not give liberty to each one to deliver his opinion and submit to the judgment of the major part, especially if they are judges of the dispute.

George Washington

Give not advice without being asked, and when desired, do it briefly.

George Washington

Our Constitution gives to bigotry no sanction.

George Washington

I wish to walk in such a line as will give most general satisfaction.

George Washington

We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before, and it has changed for the better; so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise, we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times.

George Santayana

Any attempt to speak without speaking any particular language is not more hopeless than the attempt to have a religion that shall be no religion in particular.... Every living and healthy religion has a marked idiosyncrasy. Its power consists in its special and surprising message and the bias which that revelation gives to life.

George P. Shultz

If somebody had made that [deal] to me when I was a businessman, I would have said he proposed to give me the sleeves from his vest.

George Pataki

The expansion of tobacco cessation centers is an important part of our historic and continuing effort to help smokers quit. The expansion of these centers will give even more New Yorkers the help they need to quit once and for all.

George Meyer

Instead of three networks you have three hundred or three thousand. Audiences are inundated with programming, and that sometimes gives them a sense of petulant entitlement.

George Muller

God judges what we give by what we keep.

George Muller

Never give up praying until the answer comes.

G. Gordon Liddy

If the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms insists upon a firefight, give them a firefight. Just remember, they're wearing flak jackets and you're better off shooting for the head.

G. Stanley Hall

Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the feelings and the intellect with the body that supports them

G-Eazy

Whenever I perform I try to connect with the crowd and give off energy so when they walk away from the show its remarkable and its something they talk about it, like 'damn I cant wait to come back to my show.'

Fyodor Dostoevsky

And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The meanest and most hateful thing about money is that it even gives one talent.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up

Friedrich Nietzsche

I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.