Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eva Gabor

My co-workers expect me to be late and temperamental.

Jesse Eisenberg

I feel things can always be funny, but that's probably because I have some kind of leftover childhood need to make people laugh. For somebody like me, that's the thing you excel at.

Jeremy Shockey

I guess you can say I was a late bloomer.

Jeremy Paxman

At last someone takes me seriously.

Jeremy Rifkin

The 10 largest antitrust law firms in the United States have gone into the federal courts charging Monsanto with creating a global conspiracy in violation of the antitrust laws, to control the global market in seeds.

Jeremy Rifkin

The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.

Jenny Eclair

A good fart joke makes me bawl with laughter, so will somebody farting. And the word 'poo.' You can't beat a good poo joke.

Jenny Holzer

Faithfulness is a social not a biological law.

Jenna Bush

I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.

Jenna Elfman

Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge.

Gilberto Gil

[ on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws ] To make the digital world join in the samba...

Gilda Radner

Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh.

Gilda Radner

Cancer is probably the most unfunny thing in the world, but I'm a comedian, and even cancer couldn't stop me from seeing the humor in what I went through.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is unpardonable conceit not to laugh at your own jokes. Joking is undignified; that is why it is so good for one's soul. Do not fancy you can be a detached wit and avoid being a buffoon; you cannot. If you are the Court Jester you must be the Court Fool.

Harry Seidler

The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.

Harry Shearer

If you're going to do something that lasts 90 minutes, you can't really do it with stick figures.

Hanna Rosin

Hollywood is in somewhat the same position as Las Vegas these days. It went from being the capital of sin to Disneyland, and now it's landed somewhere in between. It tries to keep the sins hidden away and outwardly present itself as a defender of American virtues: justice, individual freedom, and the power of one innocent soul to save the world.

Frank Herbert

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

Frank Herbert

That is one of the Law's purposes, of course: to test the qualities of those who choose to employ it.

Frank Herbert

Law is the ultimate science.

Frank Herbert

Law of the Minimum: "The worst potential competition for any organism can come from its own kind. The species consumes necessities. Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount. The least favourable condition controls the rate of growth."

Frank Herbert

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we do to each other.

Frank Herbert

Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws.

Frank Herbert

Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.

Frank Herbert

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.

Frank Herbert

Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.

George H. W. Bush

Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land.

George H. W. Bush

Law enforcement officials cannot place themselves above the law that they are sworn to defend.

Harmony Korine

For certain things, certain audiences, people will laugh. And in other places, there's dead silence. And I enjoy them both. You try to make films where it's never one way - like life.

Harold Bloom

Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.