Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's a wonderful way to see all the different kinds of planes,

Elton John

If you're stuck at a piano and you're not a lead guitarist or a lead vocalist, you're kind of at a nine-foot plank and you've got to do something about it.

Ella Baker

Martin [Luther King] wasn't, basically, the kind of person - certainly at the stage that I knew him closest - wasn't the kind of person you could engage in dialogue with, certainly, if the dialogue questioned the almost exclusive rightness of his position.

Ellen DeGeneres

I'm glad I'm funny. I'm glad I make people happy, because that's very important. But I'm proud to be known as a kind person.

Ellen DeGeneres

I'm going to be kind, because then it all just kind of spreads, and the world is a little nicer out there.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Do you wish the world were happy? Then remember day by day, just to scatter seeds of kindness as you pass along the way. . . .

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Let me, tonight look back across the span Twixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say- Because of some good act to beast or human- The world is better that I lived today.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may befall ourselves. We assist others,, in order that they may assist us on like occasions; so that the services we offer to the unfortunate are in reality so many anticipated kindnesses to ourselves.

Ian Mcewan

I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair, ...

Ian Fleming

I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn't care if the other is alive or dead, then it's just no good. -- from Quantum of Solace

Hugh Leonard

We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.

Hugh Laurie

I know a lot of people think therapy is about sitting around staring at your own navel - but it's staring at your own navel with a goal. And the goal is to one day to see the world in a better way and treat your loved ones with more kindness and have more to give.

I've been all over the place, ... It's a lot of places. They kind of run together after a while.

I've always played disintegrated characters. I don't know much about acting, but I can play those kinds of characters.

Ayelet Zurer

I've always had questions about how things work and why it was that way. From all kinds of perspectives, from the physical to the spiritual.

Sometimes you just match up well with a team. Look at Utah. They've kind of got our number.

Hunter S. Thompson

I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

Euripides

In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.

Henry David Thoreau

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Henry David Thoreau

Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.

Henry David Thoreau

We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be.

Gyorgy Ligeti

I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

Jean Paul Gaultier

There are many kinds of beauty, and you can find it where you least expect.

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

Chrissy Teigen

I'm not an inspirational quote kind of person.

Chris O'Dowd

I definitely enjoy an audience, when I'm performing. As I get older I'm kind of less comfortable at being demonstrative. I always fancied myself as a raconteur, but that never really worked out.

Chris LeDoux

Sleepin' in the truck wasn't so bad. Shoot, I kind of liked that, myself.

Chris Hayes

My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.

In most places where we are doing any kind of paving, we'll use this as much as we can. It's really been successful.

In a way it's kind of nice. I can go to the mall with my wife and not be recognized.