Famous Quotes & Sayings

Famke Janssen

I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.

Francis Bacon

I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.

Francis Bacon

Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.

Danbury is where the illegal problem is the worst.

Its just one big shock, knowing Ill never see him again,

It's illegal not to release him. It's wrong.

It's interesting that the rest of us didn't get a day off from paying for services. We've got only a partial picture what life would be like if we didn't have millions of illegal immigrants here.

Jaromir Jagr

It was not illegal. I know they're going to measure. Why would I go out with an illegal stick? What do you think I am? Stupid?

It's an illusory cost-shift. These people just don't have the money.

It's not an optical illusion, it just looks like one.

George Freeman

As long as it's newsworthy, truthful and the newspaper did nothing illegal to obtain the information, then it's OK to publish.

A sow may whistle, though it has an ill mouth for it.

Every time I called Illinois Midland, people weren't quite sure where the paintings were. When I was referred to Genesee and Wyoming, nobody (there) knew what this was.

It's the illusion of more information, but it's actually a lot of repetition.

It's the illegal immigrants who poison the well for everyone.

Cassandra Clare

Hope is not an illusion.

George H. W. Bush

We can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves, a shining purpose, the illumination of a Thousand Points of Light...We all have something to give.

Guru Nanak

Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.

Karl A. Menninger

We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.

Idries Shah

The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.

Gregory Maguire

It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all.

Harry S Truman

This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends to be even more ahistorical than most.

J. K. Rowling

Giggling should be made illegal.

H. G. Wells

When the mind grapples with a great and intricate problem, it makes its advances step by step, with but little realization of the gains it has made, until suddenly, with an effect of abrupt illumination, it realizes its victory.

George Herbert

Never had ill workeman good tooles.

George Herbert

It's an ill councell that hath no escape.

George Herbert

It's an ill aire where wee gaine nothing.

George Herbert

Ill vessels seldome miscarry.

George Herbert

Hee that lives ill, feare followes him.

Horace

The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing. [Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.]

I am a substantial person, and so is my wife. We have done nothing illegal and we have done nothing but suffer. It was a tempest in a teapot.

I don't think they had any ill intent, ... They're very sorry this has all happened.

I can never feel that the Illusion of Life is a truth as long as any illusion reflects unreality; however, even an untruth is a truth in its turn.