Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Saintsbury

But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.

George Saunders

You can say you're a liberal and everybody laughs and it's a good time.

Jenji Kohan

Even during the casting process, the pools of talent are so deep when you have a call for Latin women or black women or a middle-aged woman because they never get their shot. There's so much talent there.

Jefferson Davis

A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

In Hollywood everything is formatted, everything is compulsory, so therefore we have to follow the law of benefits and profit and money, let us say the law of Hollywood.

Jean Paul

Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life.

Jean Paul

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.

Jim Gibbons

Patenting and purchase of lands are absolutely vital to the health of Nevada's rural communities.

Jim Gerlach

Since its enactment in the weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tools in the Patriot Act have been used by law enforcement to stop more than 400 terrorist threats to our families and communities.

Jim Harrison

How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.

Jim Harrison

Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.

Jerry Pournelle

In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.[Pournelle's law of Bureaucracy]

Jerry Spinelli

She taught me to revel. She taught me to wonder. She taught me to laugh. My sense of humor had always measured up to everyone else's; but timid introverted me, I showed it sparingly: I was a smiler. In her presence I threw back my head and laughed out loud for the first time in my life

Jerry Seinfeld

You'll fold faster than Superman on laundry day

Jerry Seinfeld

The biggest laugh has to come at the end.

Jerome Lawrence

I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy. You can only punish. I warn you that a wicked law, like cholera, destroys everyone it touches - its upholders as well as its defiers.

Jerome Lawrence

When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.

Jerome K. Jerome

There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard.

Jenny Slate

When I'm on stage, and when I'm comfortable or uncomfortable, I have sort of a knee-jerk reaction to try to make people laugh. It's my version of a handshake to show that I want to make a connection and to show what I'm truly like. It's kind of my statement like, "This is what I'm really like. I'd like you to love me."

Jeffrey Goldberg

Barack Obama is the most Jewish president we've ever had (except for Rutherford B. Hayes). No president, not even Bill Clinton, has traveled so widely in Jewish circles, been taught by so many Jewish law professors, and had so many Jewish mentors, colleagues, and friends, and advisers as Barack Obama.

Jim Elliot

Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.

Jim Gaffigan

I should clarify that anyone that goes onstage and makes strangers laugh is insane. So I am insane.

Jim Gaffigan

I'm much more interested in making people laugh than getting applause breaks.

Jim Gaffigan

My comedy is romanticized laziness.

Jill Abramson

A general truth is to have a good sense of humor. Roll with the punches of life's ups and downs. Laughing at yourself always helps.

Jesse L. Martin

I have plenty of Law & Order on my resume.

Jesse Jackson

The law protects you from being abused. It doesn't threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.

Jesse Jackson

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

Jennifer Morrison

A great pickup line is one I don't even notice. It has me connecting with you, laughing, having a good time. And that definitely gets my attention.

Jennifer O'Neill

When working with the Universal Laws you are working with the laws of manifestation, not instant gratification ...

Jennifer Love Hewitt

If you can't laugh, you won't make it.

Jennifer Lawrence

It is a sexual violation. It’s disgusting. The law needs to be changed, and we need to change. That’s why these Web sites are responsible. Just the fact that somebody can be sexually exploited and violated, and the first thought that crosses somebody’s mind is to make a profit from it. It’s so beyond me. I just can’t imagine being that detached from humanity. I can’t imagine being that thoughtless and careless and so empty inside.