Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur C. Clarke

As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there.

Anton Chekhov

Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far asblather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.

Anton Chekhov

But at the same time, in reality, what a difference there is between the world today, and what it used to be! And with the passage of more time, some two or three hundred years, say, people will look back at our own times with horror, or with sneering laughter, because all of our present day life will appear so clumsy, and burdensome, extraordinarily inept and strange. Yes, certainly, what a life it will be then, what a life!

Bella Heathcote

I have a bit of a lava lamp fetish. They are kind of hideous, but there is something so therapeutic about them.

Bella Thorne

To me, being Latin is about more than your looks - it's how you're brought up.

bell hooks

Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy” to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No one has ever explained why accurately naming this system is funny. The laughter is itself a weapon of patriarchal terrorism.

Barry Sonnenfeld

There is something about being a director where, for me personally, I get to . . . it's the closest I'll ever come to being able to be a stand up. And to use my particular sense of humor, and hear people laughing, without me having to stand up in front of an audience and tell jokes.

Barry Sonnenfeld

They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.

Barry White

Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.

Baldwin Spencer

It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.

Baltasar Gracian

He who laughs at everything is as big a fool as he who weeps at everything.

Aung San Suu Kyi

It is essential to institute a legal framework that would ensure justice and improve the quality of life in Burma immediately, because the greatest suffering among the people at the moment is caused by lack of justice and lack of the rule of law.

Aung San Suu Kyi

As long as there is no law in Burma, any individual here can be arrested at any time.

Aung San Suu Kyi

With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.

Arun Jaitley

Over Legislation is not necessarily a virtue. It often leads to misuse of law.

Arundhati Roy

That it really began in the days when the Love Laws were made. The laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.

Bootsy Collins

There's a magical layer of love that's laced, designed to take us to a higher place.

Boris Kodjoe

I like to laugh, I like to smile, and I don't take myself too seriously. I can be a goofball.

Boris Johnson

When Cameron's Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law for bike thieves. And I hope that cycling in London will become almost Chinese in its ubiquity.

Bob Corker

I'm a lawmaker, but I really don't like laws.

Bob Dylan

Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.

Bob Dylan

You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free

Bob Dylan

There's no liquor in the land that can stop your brain from bleedin

Bob Dylan

It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry

Bob Dylan

If you choose to live outside the law, you must obey the law more stringently than anyone.

Bob Dylan

Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game.

Billy Bush

I don't do politics. I just like to laugh.

Billy Carter

Sometimes even lawyers need lawyers.

Billy Crystal

I'm going to go on just living and laughing and loving.

Billy Collins

Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God.

Billy Connolly

Politically correct is the language of cowardice.

Boy George

Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara [laughs] - things that you probably shouldn't like.

Boris Pasternak

The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.