Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Groening

Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos.

Martha Grimes

Intricately plotted, beautifully paced, The Music of the Spheres is an elegant historical novel rich in detail, at times Dickensian in its description of London. Elizabeth Redfern has made an exciting debut.

Marshall McLuhan

The medium is the message.

Oswald Chambers

Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God.

Oswald Chambers

When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.

Michel de Montaigne

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

Michel de Montaigne

I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.

Michel de Montaigne

The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.

Michael Rosenbaum

They asked me why I was wearing heels, and I said, I'm trying to hide my ass. They gave me a prosthetic behind.

Michael Rapaport

Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.

Mark Twain

History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

Mark Twain

Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate.

Mark Twain

I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.

Frederic Chopin

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

George Canning

I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.

Christina Aguilera

I wouldn't feel right wearing clothes covering my body.

Christian Louboutin

High heels empower women in a way.

Christian Louboutin

For me there ain't no high heel high enough.

Christian Louboutin

What is sexual in a high heel is the arch of the foot, because it is exactly the position of a woman's foot when she orgasms... So putting your foot in a heel, you are putting yourself in a possibly orgasmic situation.

Chris Stein

A thing we always talk about in today's culture is that nobody is an outsider - everybody's kind of a hipster on the inside.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

History does not belong to us; we belong to it.

George Santayana

Sanity is madness put to good use.

George Meredith

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

G. Gordon Liddy

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

G. M. Trevelyan

After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value.

G. M. Trevelyan

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

Nancy Pelosi

America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.

Milan Kundera

The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.

Milan Kundera

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

Marcel Proust

The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Please do not lose hope in the Savior and His love for you. It is constant. He promised that He would not leave us comfortless.