Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. Rap Brown

I consider myself neither legally nor morally bound to obey the laws made by a body in which I have no representation.

Gunter Grass

[America is] the land where people find whatever they have lost.

Gunter Grass

On sorrow floats laughter.

Greg Mortenson

We all sat there laughing and sipping tea peacefully, an infidel and representatives from three warring sects of Islam. And I thought if we can get along this well, we can accomplish anything. The British policy was ‘divide and conquer.’ But I say ‘unite and conquer.

Jim Brown

I could fully express myself in lacrosse.

Jim Butcher

As in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?" The skull howled with laughter. "You just got your ass handed to you by a nursery tale?""I wouldn't say they handed me my ass," I said.Bob was nearly strangling on his laughter, and given that he had no lungs it seemed gratuitous somehow. "That's because you can't see yourself," he choked out. "Your nose is all swollen up and you've got two black eyes. You look like a raccoon. Holding a dislocated ass.

Jim Butcher

A succubus on the set. Strike that, the health-conscious kid sister made it two… succubuses. Succubusees? Succubi? Stupid Latin correspondence course.

Jim Butcher

The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I burned the whole place to the ground.

Jim Butcher

Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.

Jim Butcher

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

Jim Butcher

Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.

Jim Butcher

Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.

Jim Butcher

Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.

Jesse Ventura

I wish they would pass a law where all Democrats and Republicans had to wear NASCAR racing suits, because if you look at the NASCAR drivers, it tells who their sponsors are. And if they do that, we could then become informed voters, because we would know who owns them.

Jesse Ventura

I will criticize President Obama on this level: it's a good thing I'm not president because I would prosecute every person that was involved in that torture. I would prosecute the people that did it. I would prosecute the people that ordered it. Because torture is against the law.

Jesse Ventura

You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.

Jesse Ventura

In the last recession, 99 percent of us have lost wealth, but did you know that the top 1 percent increased their wealth five times? It tells you they create recessions so they get wealthier.

H. P. Lovecraft

All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.

H. P. Lovecraft

A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift their emphasis towards something to which they can be true; namely, certain wistful or restless moods of the human spirit, wherein it seeks to weave gossamer ladders of escape from the galling tyranny of time, space, and natural law.

George Herbert

Learn weeping, and thou shalt gain laughing.

George Herbert

Good cable, to enforce and draw, And be thy law, While thou didst wink and wouldst not see.

George Herbert

Better never begin than never make an end.

Jean de la Bruyere

One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.

Jean Baudrillard

The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others.

Jean Baudrillard

Power floats like money, like language, like theory.

Jay Roach

I always had a respect and an admiration for people who got into politics. I certainly have always been interested in law and political science.

Jay Nixon

So we have a tremendous amount of water where the two greatest rivers in North America meet. And then all of the tributaries from the various areas come in there also. It's also highly populated. So we're working a number of water rescues. We're working extremely hard to keep people safe and make sure that we're keeping the rule of law and keep people warm. It's been pretty cold.

Jay Leno

Congress voted for tougher laws on corporations. So now when a corporation buys a senator, they need a receipt.

Jay Leno

Never perform for your family. They either laugh too hard or not at all.

Jay Leno

President James Garfield could write in Latin with one hand while writing in Greek with the other. I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

Jay Leno

Arnold said this is a last minute attack by Democrats. How did Arnold know to grope only Democrats?

Jay Leno

President Obama's been reaching out to Iran, reaching out to Cuba, reaching out to Latin America. The only place he can't seem to be able to reach out to: Texas. ... Despite Governor Rick Perry talking about how Texas could secede from the Union if it wanted to, 75 per cent of the people who live there want to stay in the United States. Of course they want to stay. I mean, after spending all that time and effort sneaking across the border to get here, why would they want to leave?

Christopher Hitchens

A rule of thumb with humor; if you worry that you might be going too far, you have already not gone far enough. If everybody laughs, you have failed.