Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saul Bellow

Well, everybody has a history.

Sarah Dessen

But unfriendly is usually one of those things you pick up on right away. You know, like B.O. There's no hiding it if it's there.

Sarah Dessen

You know, feeling and action are always linked, one can't exist without the other. It's sort of a hippie thing.-Wes

Sarah Dessen

Nothing like being scolded by a hippie.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.

I have no history but the length of my bones.

Robert Plant

What I lack in style and craft, I can make up for in joy and enthusiasm. I like to be around people who are at ease so I like to think the 25-year-old [I] would find me quite an easy-going late-middle-aged hippie.

Robert Plant

I'm not a sad old hippie - I'm a joyous old hippie.

Sarah Sutton

I like the stories with the historical themes.

Sarah Vowell

What are you hiding? No one ever asks that.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

Samuel Johnson

All history was at first oral.

Samuel Johnson

The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.

Robert Greene

Hip-hop, you can't really do that when you're in your 50s.

Robert Ballard

You don't let a historic site rot.

Robert Anton Wilson

[My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote my first historical novel---back in 1980, before I was online---I used them often as a research tool. For instance, I learned that the Bastille was either 90 feet high or 100 feet or 120 feet. This led me to formulate Wilson's 22nd Law: 'Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.'

Robert Anton Wilson

Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.

Rob Pike

When there is no type hierarchy you don't have to manage the type hierarchy.

Richard M. Nixon

This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation, because as a result of what happened in this week, the world is bigger, infinitely.

Richard M. Nixon

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

Richard M. Nixon

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Richard M. Nixon

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

Red Adair

The only thing more expensive than hiring a professional, is hiring an amateur.

Tupac Shakur

Only in Cali where we riot not rally to live and die In L.A. we wearin Chucks not Ballies (that's right)

Tupac Shakur

They say pu$$y and paper is poetry power and pistols.

Trey Anastasio

If there's one thing I discovered since I came back from hiatus, it's that you can't go backwards.

Trey Parker

Hippies, hippies... they want to save the world but all they do is smoke pot and play frisbee!

Tori Amos

If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.

Vera Wang

I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let's get that straight right now.

Venus Williams

Serena and I, we don't have anything to prove ... we still set a very high standard.

Valerie June

As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that little ukulele.

Robert Glasper

If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic jazz samples in there.

Sandra Cisneros

I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.