Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Stewart

It's great having Bruce Springsteen on my show. We have so much in common! We're both from New Jersey, just from different neighborhoods. Sort of like how Martin Luther King and Margaret Mitchell both came from Atlanta. But from different neighborhoods.

Jon Stewart

Pigmentation was a quick and convenient way of judging a person. One of us, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once proposed we instead judge people by the content of their character. He was shot.

Joyce Carol Oates

Each genre exerts a considerable spell, as a kind of "form" to be filled, as a Shakespearean sonnet is filled.

Kate Voegele

More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like it's fun and they're involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody's living room. I went to see Carole King on her 'Living Room' Tour, and that's the kind of feeling I'm aiming for.

Kate Walsh

When everyone's kind of watching you when you're out and about, it makes it hard.

Justin Welby

Turning God into some kind of celestial insurance policy is just mental.

Did we risk our lives to defend a just society, where guilt must be proven and not assumed? Or are we no better than the oppressive kings from whom our fathers fled?

Julie Burchill

I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.

Julie Burchill

It is also interesting to note that the original supermodels are now making a comeback after being dismissed in the Nineties as being 'greedy' by a gaggle of male designers who lived like Sun Kings.

Lee Hall

From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It makes everyone part of a collective.

Lee Iacocca

Are we going to be a services power? The double-cheeseburger-hold-the-mayo kings of the world?

Laurie Holden

I've worked with Frank [Darabont] on two collaborations, The Majestic with Jim Carrey and Stephen King's The Mist.

Laurie Anderson

Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.

Thomas Aquinas

The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.

Thom Yorke

Like a fat raccoon rummaging through the garbage, that how I eat. Like a f-king fat raccoon.

Thom Yorke

I'm actually an athiest. That's kind of deep you must admit.

Thierry Henry

King would get the ball off you without you even noticing he's the only defender in England who doesn't hold onto you, and he sometimes still gets the ball off my feet easily.

Therese of Lisieux

I would prefer a thousand times to receive reproofs than to give them to others ...

Tertullian

Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.

Tertullian

I owe no duty to the forum, the election ground or the senate; I am ... no barking pleader, no judge, no soldier, no king; I have withdrawn from the populace. My only business is with myself. I have no care save not to care. The better life you would more enjoy in seclusion than in publicity. But you will decry me as indolent. ... None is born for another, being destined to die for himself.

Tertullian

It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.

Terry Pratchett

- I notice you didn't laugh, Mr. Black! - No, Your Majesty. We are forbidden to laugh at the things kings say, sire, because otherwise we would be at it all day.

Terry Pratchett

Stand before your god, bow before your king, kneel before your man.

Terry Pratchett

History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles.

Terry Pratchett

The kind of accidents you prefer to call...accidents.

Terry Pratchett

When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.

Terry Pratchett

You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you.

Terry Pratchett

Granny Weatherwax was not lost. She wasn't the kind of person who ever became lost. It was just that, at the moment, while she knew exactly where SHE was, she didn't know the position of anywhere else.

Terry Pratchett

The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was practical. You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you.

Terry Pratchett

He hated games they made the world look too simple. Chess, in particular, had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went off and slaughtered their fellow pawns while the king lounged about doing nothing. If only the pawns would've united ... the whole board could've been a republic in about a dozen moves.

Terry Pratchett

Dedication: My thanks to the people who showed me that opera was stranger than I could imagine. I can best repay their kindness by not mentioning their names here.

Terry Pratchett

Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.

Terry Pratchett

Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association.