Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cyrus Broacha

The first rule of comedy should be, you must be very lazy. Whoever works should be immediately removed.

Cynthia Ozick

The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.

Cynthia Ozick

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Cyril Connolly

The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.

Cyril Connolly

Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.

Dar Williams

There's a marketing scheme that tells you that pregnancy and child rearing will make you into a moron, that your kids are only happy when you're buying them stuff. It's hard being a parent, but I laugh a lot and smile a lot and really enjoy it. The ratio of laughter to sadness is higher. There's part of me that wants to broadcast that. Parenting only affirmed what I already cared about, and that's good

Daniella Alonso

I really am happy that I met my agency and my management company, because they see me as a person and not just a Latin woman.

Dan Maffei

I have consistently supported laws ensuring women are able to make their own health care decisions, and I will continue to protect womens access to contraceptives and reproductive health care.

Dan Millman

The only laws are paradox, humor and change.

Dan Millman

Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Law! What do I care about the law? Ain't I got the power?

William Shakespeare

Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?

William Shakespeare

To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

William Shakespeare

To offend and judge are distinct offices, And of opposed natures.

There is no question in my mind that the law is being abused here.

Zinedine Zidane

Until my last breath. I won't say. It's too intense.

Amy Heckerling

Any time I wind up in the lane where you can't quickly turn off of it and it's turning into the freeway, I just start screaming until I'm off of it.

William Shakespeare

We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.

Marie de France

Whosoever counts these Lays as fable, may be assured that I am not of his mind.

Michael Korda

To have a childhood surrounded by people like Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh sounds glitzy, but for years I wanted to repress it. I couldn't take that kind of power and success.

I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.

John the Apostle

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.

Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands.

We're going for big laughs and big talk value.

We're going by the law and the mother's wishes and the wishes of the child.

We're shooting more consistently than we were last year. We just have to keep working on it.

We're set up for a nice little rally, however, how long it can last is unclear.

We're looking at trains as a primary way to move large means of people.

We're excited. And we're still mad we lost on Saturday. It reminds me a lot of last year (when the Vikings lost to Centennial then went undefeated the rest of the way). We want to do that again.

Ric Keller

While our budget shortfall is temporary, ruining pristine national lands is permanent.

Alexis de Tocqueville

In the United States, except for slaves, servants and the destitute fed by townships, everyone has the vote and this is an indirect contributor to law-making. Anyone wishing to attack the law is thus reduced to adopting one of two obvious courses: they must either change the nation's opinion or trample its wishes under foot.

Alexis de Tocqueville

So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me.

Alexis de Tocqueville

There is one universal law that has been formed, or at least adoptedby the majority of mankind. That law is justice. Justice forms the cornerstone of each nation's law.