Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joan Rivers

I think I was the third person in the world to get a Kindle, and I hated it from the minute I got it.

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

Anne Lamott

I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I think we sometimes buy into these concepts because it is so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. I don't think anything is the opposite of love. Reality is unforgivingly complex.

Anne Lamott

I'm all over the place, up and down, scattered, withdrawing, trying to find some elusive sense of serenity." The world can't give that serenity. The world can't give us peace. We can only find it in our hearts." I hate that." I know. But the good news is that by the same token, the world can't take it away.

Andy Milonakis

As young as I look, I think it will still be funny if I played a person who's kind of tortured and hates his life. Kind of like a Larry David-type thing.

Andy Richter

I never just sit down and see what's on TV anymore. And also, I hate almost everything, so that keeps you reading magazines and doing crossword puzzles or whatever.

Andy Partridge

You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I'd buy a new album I'd invariably hate it the first time I heard it 'cause it was a mixture of absolute joy and absolute frustration. I couldn't grasp what they'd done, and I'd hate myself for that.

Alastair Campbell

I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.

Alber Elbaz

After every show, I say to Hania [Destelle, a friend], ‘They hated it.’

Alber Elbaz

Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?

Albert Ellis

And just as two wrongs don't make a right, rage against offenders is probably the worst way to try to correct them.

Albert Ellis

The individual is taught that there is nothing that he as a total person is to feel ashamed of or self-hating for.

Albert Ellis

If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally - about anything. Yes, anything.

Albert Ellis

Even when people act nastily to you, don't condemn them or retaliate.

Albert Camus

I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.

America Ferrera

I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.

Amanda Hocking

I tended to hate people that hit me in the head without warning.

Amanda Hocking

I hate that you do this to me. I hate how crazy you make me. I hate you! - Wendy

Amanda Hocking

You really do hate me, don't you? I mean, destroying someone's ice-cream cone? That's vicious." Her cheeks reddened. "I didn't see you there. Honestly." She wiped at his shirt more frantically, as if she could prevent it from staining if she rubbed hard enough. "Oh, now I see your plan, and it's far more devious than I thought." Daniel smirked. "You were looking for an excuse to grope me.

Amanda Palmer

I hate being ignored.

Annie Lennox

I don't take myself as seriously as some people think, and I'd hate anyone to think I was preaching. That's the last thing I want.

Annie Lennox

I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.

Annie Dillard

It is the fixed that horrifies us, the fixed that assails us with the tremendous force of mindlessness. The fixed is a Mason jar,and we can't beat it open. ...The fixed is a world without fire--dead flint, dead tinder, and nowhere a spark. It is motion without direction, force without power, the aimless procession of caterpillars round the rim of a vase, and I hate it because at any moment I myself might step to that charmed and glistening thread.

Clay Aiken

Actually, I dont hate cats, Im just kind of afraid of them.

Clayton Christensen

You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn't care.

Daniel Kahneman

People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.

D. J. MacHale

I hate clowns. I've mentioned that, right?

D. J. MacHale

There are two types of people in this world. People who hate clowns...and clowns. (Bobby Pendragon)

D. H. Lawrence

Hate's a growing thing like anything else. It's the inevitable outcome of forcing ideas onto life, of forcing one's deepest instincts; our deepest feelings we force according to certain ideas.

D. H. Lawrence

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

D. H. Lawrence

Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.

D. H. Lawrence

The difference between people isn't in their class, but in themselves. Only from the middle classes one gets ideas, and from the common people--life itself, warmth. You feel their hates and loves.

D. H. Lawrence

Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human consciousness.