Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Riordan

Zeus looked like a really buff, really angry hippie.

Timothy Noah

Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila.

Rio Ferdinand

I set myself high standards on the pitch and know I have not always lived up to them this season

Steven Wright

I was hitchhiking the other day and a hearse stopped. I said, 'No thanks, I'm not going that far.

Steven Seagal

People all over the world recognize me as a spiritual leader.

Toni Morrison

My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.

Tommy Chong

There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.

Tommy Chong

People didn't relate to me as being Chinese or white, just being a hippie, a long-haired hippie.

Tommy Chong

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

Raymond Queneau

All societies are historical.

Raymond Queneau

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.

Richard Bach

Were we, also, hiking along some cosmic journal page? Were the events about us all part of a message we could understand, if only we found the right perspective from which to read them? Somehow, with our long series of miracles, I thought so.

Robert Frost

One age is like another for the soul.

Rick Perlstein

No historical analogies are exactly precise.

Rebecca Gayheart

To look long and lean, wear a wide-leg trouser with high heels.

Thomas Nagel

The more details we learn about the chemical basis of life and the intricacy of the genetic code, the more unbelievable the standard historical account becomes

Thomas Huxley

The occurrence of successive forms of life upon our globe is an historical fact, which cannot be disputed; and the relation of these successive forms, as stages of evolution of the same type, is established in various cases.

Timbaland

I wanna be selective... very selective. Right now, hip-hop's very boring to me. It's no excitement.

Timothy Leary

My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.

Samantha Shannon

I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkiens legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and cultures that Tolkien used to create his world. My favourite of his imaginary locations is Lothlorien.

Rumi

Listen to presences inside poems, Let them take you where they will. Follow those private hints, and never leave the premises.

Tom Peters

Never, ever rest on your laurels. Today's laurels are tomorrow's compost.

Tom Lehrer

Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air!

Toby Keith

Kids on the Youtube, learning how to be cool.

Toni Braxton

I've always been able to do sprinkles of hip-hop here and there in all my albums, but I'm not sure how my fans are gonna feel about coming out first with something that's so hip-hop.

Vanilla Ice

Stop, collaborate and listen.

T. S. Eliot

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.

Sylvester Stallone

I'm the Hiroshima of love.

Susan Sontag

The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them ...

Susan Sontag

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter.

Reza Aslan

The New Testament is not a historical document.

Reinhold Niebuhr

We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer.

Rick Springfield

I've never said, 'I'm squeaky clean.' It's always the people who project that image that are hiding something. No one's squeaky clean.