Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lewis Carroll

Can you row?" the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke. "Yes, a little--but not on land--and not with needles--" Alice was beginning to say.

Lewis Carroll

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

Leonard Boswell

It is clear we can make reforms to better ensure we are giving law enforcement all of the tools they need while maintaining the appropriate safeguards to protect the very freedoms we cherish.

Leon Wieseltier

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

Joyce Meyer

God works according to the law of gradual growth, so don't be discouraged if your progress seems slow,

Joseph Story

Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Unaw'd by influence and unbrib'd by gain; Here patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw, Pledg'd to Religion, Liberty, and Law.

Josephine Baker

I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.

Joseph Wood Krutch

It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.

Joseph Heller

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

Joseph Campbell

At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.

Joseph Campbell

Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.

Karl Pilkington

Why didn't evolution make a giraffe good at carpentry so it could build a ladder?

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

To disrespect the masses is moral; to honor them, lawful.

Karl Popper

Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it.

Karen Horney

There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.

Julio Iglesias

I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture. The stylings of my words are immodest, but it's the truth.

Steven Soderbergh

Jude [Law] is really good at playing an obsessive. He has a very watchable quality when he's on a quest for something.

Steven Soderbergh

In the land of ideas, you are always renting.

Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.

Regina Hall

Sometimes I make myself laugh, but that's because I appreciate my sense of humor.

Regina Brett

Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking is slow and leisurely.

Robert Bresson

Laugh at a bad reputation. Fear a good one that you could not sustain.

Tom Shadyac

The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law.

Tom Shadyac

I think laughter is a sacred act.

Tom Hollander

If you're actually being paid to be miserable, and to be as miserable as you can be, that's a very fortunate thing, if you're prone to occasional lapses of spirit.

Tom Hooper

After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.

Toni Morrison

Being able to laugh got me through.

Toni Morrison

Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't marginal anymore. We have to acknowledge that the thing we call literature is more pluralistic now, just as society ought to be. The melting pot never worked. We ought to be able to accept on equal terms everybody from the Hasidim to Walter Lippmann, from the Rastafarians to Ralph Bunche.

Toni Morrison

Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

Toni Morrison

Laughter is more serious than tears.

Tom Tancredo

Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.

Tom Metzger

I was a right winger into the 70s but I left the right in late 70s.

Tom Hardy

I'm from East Sheen, I went to public school where I learned Latin at the age of nine, and certain expectations were made of me to go to St Paul's, Oxbridge maybe, and all that kind of thing. And I failed systematically to meet the mark - who I am and what I should have been are two very different things.