Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Hanks

If you're funny, if there's something that makes you laugh, then every day's going to be okay.

Tom C. Clark

Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.

Sometimes laughter is the only way to process tough times

Tina Fey

Sometimes when you're doing a comedy, the director will yell out "alts" and then the director gets the first laugh.

Tina Fey

Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity.

Tim Kaine

You have got to connect your land use decisions with transportation decisions.

Tim Ferriss

There are two synergistic approaches for increasing productivity that are inversions of each other: 1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson's Law). The best solution is to use both together: Identify the few critical tasks that contribute most to income and schedule them with very short and clear deadlines.

Tia Carrere

Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon.

Sam Ewing

An expert is someone called in at the last minute to share the blame.

Saint-John Perse

The only menace is inertia.

Saint Patrick

That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets, who of course have never lied. He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.

Sallust

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

S. I. Hayakawa

The United States, a land of immigrants from every corner of the world, has been strengthened and unified because its newcomers have historically chosen ultimately to forgo their native language for the English language. We have all benefited from the sharing of ideas, of cultures and beliefs, made possible by a common language. We have all enriched each other.

S. I. Hayakawa

Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.

Russell Pearce

Arizona has become a national leader in the restoration of the Rule of Law, with over 100,000 illegal aliens having left the state since 2007.

Russell Pearce

If our government has a policy, any political subdivision, that limits or restricts the enforcement of our immigration laws, we will sue them! And that suit will be $5,000 a day every day until that policy is changed! This law will be enforced.

Russell Pearce

In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to enforce violations of the federal immigration laws.

Russell Pearce

In Arizona we have passed laws to free our people so that they can defend themselves and their loved ones. You cannot predict where evil will raise its head, but you can be prepared for it.

Russell Pearce

I knew Arizona's SB 1070 would be controversial when I introduced it, but I did not expect the national immigration debate to revolve around a state law. While the anti-American open-borders Left attack me and the law as 'racist,' 'nativist' and their other empty smear words, the vast majority of the people of Arizona and America support the law.

Russell Simmons

Nothing increases happiness like quiet time. The truth is, the only moments that make you laugh or happy are seconds of stillness.

Ronald Reagan

To do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom.

We Brazilians, happily or unhappily, leave a lot to the last minute.

Roman Jakobson

A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.

Romano Prodi

I don't want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta.

Romany Malco

The only difference between comedy and drama is that, in comedy, I'm going to utilize the tool of creating laughter to deflect discomfort and, in drama, I won't use a tool, but we're going to actually deal with the discomfort and see what comes out of it.

Romany Malco

For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing. How the comedy ever even started in my life was that moments got uncomfortable and I felt uncertain of what the outcome was going to be, so I found a way to deflect what I was feeling, or what everyone else was feeling, by creating laughter.

Romany Malco

I learned early in life that laughter is a great way to diffuse and uncomfortable situation, so I began to use that as a tool, throughout my life.

Ron Paul

September 11th does not justify ignoring the Constitution by creating broad new federal police powers. The rule of law is worthless if we ignore it whenever crises occur.

Ron Paul

I wouldn't vote against getting rid of the Jim Crow laws.

Ron Paul

During the last campaign I knew what was happening. You know, they mocked me for my foreign policy and they laughed at my monetary policy. No more. No more.

Ron Paul

Why does the U.S. care which flag will be hoisted on a small piece of land thousands of miles away?

Sam Rayburn

Let the other fellow get the headlines. I'll take the laws.

Sally Field

Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.