Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Strummer

Strummer's Law: No input, no output.

Jodi Picoult

But rules only work when everyone plays by them. What happens when someone doesn't, and the fallout bleeds right into his life? Whats stronger- the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?

Jodi Picoult

If you want to see God laugh, make a plan.

Jodi Picoult

What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?

John Gould

Freud wrote a book on the essence of humor, but he didn't know what he was talking about. Max Eastman wrote a book, The Enjoyment of Laughter, that was a much better book, but nobody bothered to read it.

John Grisham

Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Happy he whose inward ear Angel comfortings can hear, O'er the rabble's laughter; And, while Hatred's fagots burn, Glimpses through the smoke discern Of the good hereafter.

John Green

And I agreed, but still, she owed us an explanation. If she was up there, down there, out there, somewhere, maybe she would laugh.

John Green

I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.

John Green

Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.

John Green

What's that?" "The laundry basket?" "No, next to it." "I don't see anything next to it." "It's my last shred of dignity. It's very small.

John Green

I’m not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.

John Green

I realized it in waves and we held on to each other crying and I thought, God we must look so lame, but it doesn't matter much when you have just now realized, all the time later, that you are still alive.

John Green

And I wrote my way out of the labyrinth.

John Green

And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.

John Green

I choose the labyrinth.

John Green

Colin did not laugh. Instead he thought, Tampons have strings? Why? Of all the major human mysteries - God, the nature of the universe, etc. - he knew the least about tampons. To Colin, tampons were a little bit like grizzly bears: he was aware of their existence, but he'd never seen on in the wild, and didn't really care to.

John Green

The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness: 'I want this dragon carrot risotto to become a person so I can take it to Las Vegas and marry it.

John Green

That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape---the world or the end of it?

Pat Toomey

We need statutory spending limits written into law.

Pat Summitt

Actually, when I saw it in USA Today, I just, Candace Parker was, we were warming up in practice and she was underneath the basket shooting and I just said, 'Hey Candace! I enjoyed what I read in the paper today about your decision [to stay].' She just started laughing and I did too. So I haven't discussed it with her.

Pat Robertson

In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers.

Pat Robertson

Every time the liberals pass a bill - I don't care what it involves - they stick criminal sanctions on it. They don't feel there is any way people are going to keep a law unless they can put them in jail.

Pat Robertson

Government was instituted by God to bring His laws to people and to carry out His will and purposes.

Pat Robertson

And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.

P. T. Barnum

In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money.

Mary Roach

The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests 'a chimpanzee in sailor pants'.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf; but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe

Mary Boykin Chesnut

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

Mary Baker Eddy

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

Martin Feldstein

An increase in the relative price of products from the low wage manufacturers in Asia and Latin America will also make those products less attractive to American consumers.