Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. M. Forster

I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.

Drea De Matteo

I'm tired of the industry, tired of playing the whole game - the dressing up, the red carpet. I hate talking about myself.

Drew Barrymore

The older you get, the few slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What happened to them?

Drew Barrymore

I hate flatscreens. I don't want to see anything in that much pixilation. I don't need to see the pimple on someone's face. I love the world through glass. The more old, dusty and tainted that glass is, the prettier and more impressionistic that is to me. I don't need to see everything perfectly. I don't like it.

Drew Barrymore

I hate women who say they can eat whatever they want, because I don't relate to that at all. It isn't fair! I absolutely live for food.

Drew Barrymore

I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back. If I go to hell, it will be a small closet with a telephone in it, and I will be doomed and destined for eternity to return phone calls.

Douglas Preston

There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and it shows.

Dorothy Thompson

Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.

Donald Barthelme

See the moon? It hates us.

Don DeLillo

It's not enough to hate your enemy. You have to understand how the two of you bring each other to deep completion.

Don DeLillo

I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.

Donald Sutherland

What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone's been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to forget him. I used to follow a practice-somewhat contrived, I admit-to write the man's name on a piece of scrap paper, drop it into the lowest drawer of my desk, and say to myself: "That finishes the incident, and so far as I'm concerned, that fellow. The drawer became over the years a sort of private wastebasket for crumpled-up spite and discarded personalities. Besides, it seemed to be effective, and helped me avoid harboring useless black feelings."

Doug Stanhope

I hate when your friends quit drinking on you, don't you? It's sad. I've lost more friends to AA than Liberace did to the virus. It's sad to see 'em go. You see a thirty day chip on your buddy's key ring, it's like seeing a toe tag on his cold, stiff corpse.

Doug Stanhope

People hate people just cause they want someone different to hate.

Doug Stanhope

Race, Religion, Ethnic Pride, Nationalism does nothing but teach you how to hate people you have never met

Douglas Adams

It's part of the shape of the Universe. I only have to talk to somebody and they begin to hate me.

Dorothy Allison

That was what gospel was meant to do - make you hate and love yourself at the same time, make you ashamed and glorified.

Dorothy Allison

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.

Doris Lessing

I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

Doris Lessing

Mostly getting old is boring. I hate the stiffness in the bones. I was physically arrogant for years. I don't like it now that I have difficulty getting around. But a certain equanimity sets in, a certain detachment. Things seem less desperately important than they once did, and that's a pleasure.

Donna Mills

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

Donna Mills

Early on in my career, I'd go into the makeup trailer, and they'd spend an hour doing my makeup, and I would hate it. I'd go into the bathroom, wash it off and start over again, which took an enormous amount of time. So I just started doing it myself.

Donna Tartt

I hate Gucci,' said Francis. 'Do you?' said Henry, glancing up from his reverie. 'Really? I think it's rather grand.' 'Come on, Henry.' 'Well, it's so expensive, but it's so ugly too, isn't it? I think they make it ugly on purpose. And yet people buy it out of sheer perversity.' 'I don't see what you think is grand about that.' 'Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale,' said Henry.

Donald Glover

I hope a kid listens to my stuff, I hope there's a change made and at least somebody walks away with: "I'm doing this because I like it." People are going to hate it and that's okay, but I have to do it because my happiness is important too, it's worth it.

Donald Glover

I hate it when you really think you're getting something good... and you don't listen to your dudes when you really should.

Don Watson

I like having my own style; love my work or hate my work, it's my own.

Dale Carnegie

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.

Creed Bratton

No matter how you get here or where you end up, human beings have this miraculous gift to make that place home.

Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers.

When a miser contents himself with giving nothing, and saving what he has got, and is in other respects guilty of no injustice, he is, perhaps, of all bad men the least injurious to society; the evil he does is properly nothing more than the omission of the good he might do. If, of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested, it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers.

Claude Chabrol

There's one thing which I hate about color films... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money by working in the laboratory to bring out the dominant hues, or to make color films where there isn't any color.

Claude Levi-Strauss

I hate travelling and explorers