Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Keller

A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle.

Laura Schlessinger

If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.

Lee Myung-bak

I will serve the people in a very humble way.

Susanne Bier

I don't feel that I'm strictly Danish; I don't feel that my sense of humor is strictly Danish or my human sensibility is strictly Danish.

People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.

We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.

Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late

Reality shows serve up juicy drama out of human shortcomings.

Nikki Sixx

Sometimes when people can't speak English, they hum the melody instead of singing along. Having 20,000 people humming your song is incredible.

Gore Vidal

The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.

Frank Lowy

The human being is very resourceful. When you fight for survival, you don't think much; you just do. If you think too much, you sink.

Bruce Nauman

I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.

Immigration is a system and a set of policies. And immigrants are the people behind those policies and behind that system, and the human stories.

Samuel Butler

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

Estelle Parsons

For anyone with half a brain they can see that this play is about the human condition.

Erich Maria Remarque

They are more human and more brotherly towards one another, it seems to me, than we are. But perhaps that is merely because they feel themselves to be more unfortunate than us.

Niels Arden Oplev

I'm interested in the human more than I'm interested in building suspense.

Niels Arden Oplev

I think if there was no violence in our world, there would be no violence in film. Violence is a part of human nature, and obviously it's a troublesome part of human nature. You always have responsibilities when you portray violence in what angle you put down on that scene.

Jeff Foxworthy

That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.

Kate Bernheimer

I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

John Perry Barlow

I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.

James Gleick

Humorists are using Twitter to tell jokes in an interesting way. It doesn't have to be profound, and it doesn't have to be earth-shaking, but it is transformative.

Laura Esquivel

Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

Lauren Willig

My own inclination is to skew towards humor. They say that some people view life as a comedy, others as a tragedy. Me? Comedy all the way.

Jerry Seinfeld

Nobody enjoys the 'little show about nothing' humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

Jeff Ross

Humor that is edgy is never squeaky clean.

Jeff Ross

Athletes tend to have less of a sense of humor than most people. They are heroes to so many. That might be part of it.

Terry McMillan

Every human being I know craves love and affection.

Alan Cohen

Your brilliance comes from your spirit. To deny it is arrogance. To accept it is humility.

Alan Cohen

Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.

Where are these people going to be putting their human waste? Are these people self-sufficient?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.