Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clarence Darrow

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.

Clarence Darrow

It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.

Danny Elfman

The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here, because you know in advance you're going to want the melody to catch four things in the action.

Daniel D. Palmer

Compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberty of the people in a land of freedom.

Daniel Defoe

[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey .

Daniel Day-Lewis

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

Daniel Dennett

Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.

Daniel Dennett

After Darwin, God's role changes from being the designer of all creatures great and small to being the designer of the laws of nature, from which natural selection can unfold, to being perhaps just the chooser of the laws. By the time God's role has been so diminished, he becomes a bit like a constitutional monarch, presiding ceremonially but not having any more work to do. That's a place for God if it makes people comfortable to keep God as the presider over the universe. I suppose that is satisfying for many.

Dan Castellaneta

To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.

Dan Brown

Language can be very adept at hiding the truth.

David Coleman

And for those of you who watched the last programme, I hope all your doughnuts turn out like Fanny's.

David Archuleta

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart.

David Attenborough

People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.

Don McLean

I saw satan laughing with delight The day the music died.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Dylan Lauren

My parents screened 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I became fascinated by the idea of living in a candy land with chocolate rivers and lollipop trees.

Dylan Thomas

If you want a definition of poetry, say: Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing and let it go at that.

Dylan Moran

I'm fascinated by how you'll change your position so many times over a lifetime, but really what you're doing is occupying a series of positions on a landscape.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The world no longer has a choice between force and law; if civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.

Doug Stanhope

Charlie Chaplin said something to the effect that humor is an act of defiance, that we must laugh in the face of our helplessness in the forces of nature or go insane. And where is he now? Dead.

Doug Stanhope

There should be no such thing as a vice law. Every vice is only a bad habit, and the punishment is inherent in the act.

Doug Stanhope

You should laugh everywhere you can find even the slightest glimmer of humour.

Doug Stanhope

You're born absolutely free except for laws of nature, if you drink you get drunk, that's a law, if you get old you die, that's a law too; if you sit on a tack you will bleed from the ass, these are the only laws that you're born with.

Dorothy Allison

Mama learned to laugh with them, before they could laugh at her, and to do it so well no one could be sure what she really thought or felt.

Doris Lessing

The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.

Donna Tartt

Are you happy here?" I said at last. He considered this for a moment. "Not particularly," he said. "But you're not very happy where you are, either.

Donna Tartt

I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.

Don Rickles

When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.

Dale Carnegie

There is one all-important law of human conduct. If we obey that law, we shall almost never get into trouble. In fact, that law, if obeyed, will bring us countless friends and constant happiness. But the very instant we break the law, we shall get into endless trouble. The law is this: Always make the other person feel important.

Dale Carnegie

By criticizing, we do not make lasting changes and often incur resentment.

Claude Chabrol

First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law

Claude Chabrol

Films with a message just make me laugh.