Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edie Falco

In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration.

Elbert Hubbard

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

The market wasn't looking for a revision of the deflator, which was much larger than expected.

The markets have been very volatile and a large segment of the market is historically a very volatile segment of the market,

The market potential is quite large but unquantifiable. You could be looking at a market ... one third (the size) of the 35mm movie film market.

Chris Burke

The meet went really well. By and large it was a success, making the long trip worth it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism; and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel.

John F. Kennedy

Unless liberty flourishes in all lands, it cannot flourish in one.

John F. Kennedy

Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.

John F. Kennedy

Certain other societies may respect the rule of force--we respect the rule of law.

John F. Kennedy

The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America.

Jonathan Lethem

I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world.

Jonathan Groff

I definitely prefer the single camera better. For me it's the simple fact that I enjoy working in front of an audience, but when you're trying to create a suspension of disbelief it's much harder to do in front of audience because they become a partner. Moreso than that, they become in charge of the timing. From the simple, mechanical fact that you have to hold for their laughter. The actual timing of the scene is in the hands of the audience. As a control freak, I don't enjoy that as much as the ability to be able to control it in an edit room.

Jonathan Haidt

The word religion literally means, in Latin, to link or bind together; and despite the vast variation in the world's religions, Wilson shows that religions always serve to coordinate and orient people's behavior toward each other and toward the group as a whole, sometimes for the purpose of competing with other groups.

Jonathan Davis

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

Jonathan Coe

Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.

Jonathan Carroll

If you are a success in life, there are places you must go and pay to be humiliated. It is an unwritten law that human beings must be tormented throughout their lives in one way or another. If you are fortunate enough to have risen to a social level where no one does it to you for free, then you must pay for the service.

Jonas Armstrong

Its flattering that there are lots of Internet fan sites about me. Im a bit of a technophobe and I dont even own a laptop, but its probably a good thing Im not logged on, checking up on what everyone is saying about me.

Jonathan Ames

Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.

Jon Stewart

How refreshing. A suspect beaten up BEFORE the LAPD showed up.

Jon Stewart

Even if the flag burning amendment does become law, the larger problem will remain of how to respectfully dispose of older, tattered flags. Well, fortunately the U.S. official Flag Code has a suggestion about this. Quote: 'The flag, when it is in such a condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem of display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.' Owwwwcchh. In response, the House Republicans are calling for tattered flags to be kept alive via a feeding tube.

Jon McGregor

there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter, and a slow walk home.

Joyce Carol Oates

How lawyers make work for one another! You're all priests, worshipping the same god. No wonder you adore one another.

Katha Pollitt

When it comes to ideas - and religions are, among other things, ideas - there is no right not to be offended. ... In fact, if you need laws ... to protect your faith, maybe your faith is weak.

Kate Upton

I like to laugh. I like to have a good time. I don't like to be so serious about things, so I would want a guy who would want to laugh and have a good time, too.

Katey Sagal

When they say laughter is healing, it absolutely is the truth.

Kate Atkinson

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Justin Vernon

People gather details and comparisons but it doesn't really bother me or land on me of any sort. I don't know if I was... Maybe I was influenced by them, maybe I wasn't, but I don't know. I was probably influenced by everything I've heard. So it doesn't bother me at all, but it doesn't sway me either.

Justin Timberlake

My favorite thing in the world was to make people sing - until I made people laugh. Then that became my favorite thing in the world.

Justin Timberlake

The Holy Land... What an experience. I will never forget this day.

Julie Bishop

At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas.

Richard Dawkins

It is an absurd law [Section 295A of the Indian penal code] but also extremely dangerous because it gives fanatics, whether they are Hindus, Catholics or Muslims, a licence to be offended. It also allows people who are in dispute with you to make up false accusations of blasphemy.

Richard Whately

Happiness is no laughing matter.