Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Seinfeld

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

I've studied psychology. I'm fascinated by the human mind, and I love people.

Billy Porter

We need to understand that whatever we do, we're all human beings first.

Ian Frazier

With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.

David Cronenberg

I see technology as being an extension of the human body.

Florence King

Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.

Aldo Leopold

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

Don Johnson

This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being.

'Old Fashioned' can expect strong interest because it taps into a universal human longing.

Robert H. Schuller

Jesus never called a human being a sinner.

Barry Eisler

Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.

Brendan Myers

For those who struggle with anti-pagan prejudices and stereotypes, Humanist Paganism might be a powerful educational tool. It can show that a pagan can be a sophisticated, cosmopolitan, and enlightened person, and that a pagan culture can be artistically vibrant, environmentally conscious, intellectually stimulating, and socially just.

Marcus Garvey

Marcus Garvey does not give a snap for anything human but justice, and that which is based upon righteousness.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

Bob Ross

If you study my paintings, there are no signs of human life.

Banks

People think I'm going to be this really dark human when they meet me.

Banks

Human emotion is more interesting than anything. Everything that is so overtly sexual is not real. Real emotion is sexy. It's vulnerable and raw.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The chief incalculable in war is the human will.

Zig Ziglar

Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.

Antony Gormley

I think scale is about, in a way, the apprehension of proportion, and all the proportions that mean things to us as human beings are related to the body.

It's extremely likely that the people who have never been exposed to a human who has leprosy, it's very likely they got leprosy from exposure to an armadillo.

We're not only providing for the Payson Humane Society, but we're keeping tons and tons and tons of recyclables out of our landfills.

Marley Shelton

To me, 'Scream' is a masterpiece on every level - the performances, the humor, the tone - it's just flawless.

Orson Scott Card

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

Paul Simon

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

Paul Simon

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

Orson Scott Card

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.

Those who take unjustified pride in themselves, are punished and humiliated by the Messenger of Death. O Nanak, who else is there to ask?

Donald Rumsfeld

When one looks back on this effort, I think and pray that what will be significant is that a large number of human beings, intelligent and energetic, have been liberated,

Kin Hubbard

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

Kurt Vonnegut

No moral value is greater than humanity.

Kurt Vonnegut

What a bummer it is to be a human being.

Kurt Vonnegut

Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.