Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Singer Sargent

I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in his youth, but after forty I believe that manual dexterity deserts one, and, besides, the color-sense is less acute. Youth can better stand the exactions of a personal kind that are inseparable from portraiture. I have had enough of it.

John Slattery

Viewers can hate a character and at the same time can't take their eyes off of him.

John Sayles

Sometimes people can't afford to work for you, or they're not interested or available, and you hate to have written the whole movie with somebody in mind and not get them.

John Sayles

Michael Moore, whether you like him or hate him, has done something very important.

Martin Luther

A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing; Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing: For still our ancient foe doth seek to work us woe; His craft and power are great, and, armed with cruel hate, On earth is not his equal.

Martin Luther

I see a word that hates evil more than it loves good.

Martin Luther

How can a reason which hates God be called sound?

Martin Luther

We must meet hate with love. We must meet physical force with soul force.

Martin Luther

I hate myself, that I cannot believe it so constantly and surely as I should; but no human creature can rightly know how mercifully God is inclined toward those that steadfastly believe in Christ.

Martin Luther

Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music.

Martin Luther

Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you

Mark Steyn

If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too.

Marilyn French

All men are rapists and that's all they are

Marilyn French

'I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.

Nicole Kidman

The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.

Nick Cave

I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really.

Nancy Gibbs

In his final remarks to the White House staff, on the day he resigned his office, Nixon applied a version of the lesson to himself. “Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Sherman Alexie

You have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too. (191)

Seth Grahame-Smith

Real power comes not from hate, but from truth.

Seth MacFarlane

I hate people who say 'Just to play devil's advocate.'

Seth MacFarlane

'Family Guy' has this weird thing of attracting people. People either hate it or can't get enough of it. There's really no one in between.

Seth Rogen

There was, like, a week straight of shooting, where, like, all I did was shoot a machine gun. And I hate to - every - it went against all my Jewish and Canadian instincts, but I enjoyed every second of it.

Sebastian Horsley

People either hate me or dislike me - but I realized that people aren't against you, they are for themselves. We're all prejudiced in favor of ourselves.

Sebastian Junger

Who wants a life of ease? And who wants a life in the office that you hate, and who wants to play golf?

Scott Spencer

It was a once in a lifetime thing. I hate to think it but I bet it's true. It's too bad for us that our once in a lifetime happened when were too young to handle it.

Scott Eastwood

I hate watching myself. It's terrible. It's horrifying.

Seth Godin

The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's no ball, there's no game. Bullies hate that. So they'll either behave so they can play with you or they'll go bully someone else.

Tom Colicchio

I hate okra and grated mountain yam for the same reason. They're both slimy.

Todd Wagner

Truth sounds like hate to those who hate the truth

Todd Solondz

And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that.

Solange Knowles

A lot of times I use live musicians, but I don't want it to have that live funky sound so I'll just take the best loop of a drum part and repeat it over and over and over again so that there's consistency and it feels a little bit more programmed. But I have a love/hate relationship with comping as well.

Sly Stone

Don't hate the black, don't hate the white. If you get bit, just hate the bite.

Slavoj Zizek

I hate writing. I so intensely hate writing -- I cannot tell you how much. The moment I am at the end of one project I have the idea that I didn't really succeed in telling what I wanted to tell, that I need a new project -- it's an absolute nightmare. But my whole economy of writing is in fact based on an obsessional ritual to avoid the actual act of writing.