Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Alarcon

Radio is the medium that most closely approximates the experience of reading. As a novelist, I find it very exciting to be able to reach people who might not ever pick up one of my books, either because they can't afford it (as is often the case in Latin America), or because they just don't have the habit of reading novels.

Daniel Alarcon

For fiction, Im not particularly nationalistic. Im not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.

Conan O'Brien

Today Facebook went public, just as Myspace's last user went private.

Condoleezza Rice

America cannot do most of what needs to be done alone. You need friends. And we have good friends around the world. We have friends with whom we share values in Europe and Asia - thanks to the forward march of democracy - in Latin America, in Africa, and increasingly in the Middle East.

Condoleezza Rice

I laugh almost everyday. I have a good sense of humor, so I'm always finding something funny.

Cody Linley

I'm pretty goofy, I'll do anything for a laugh.

Coco Lee

I'm sporty, active, bubbly, I like to make people laugh... I'm the jokester. But I'm also very traditional.

Cokie Roberts

Women rely on friends. ... That's where we draw sustenance and find safety. We can count on our women friends when we need a good laugh or a good cry.

Claudette Colbert

If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.

Claude M. Bristol

Whatever we fix our thoughts upon or steadily focus our imagination upon, that is what we attract.

Clarence Thomas

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

Claudius

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below

Colin Hanks

I've always been a big fan of comedy and sketch comedy, and I like to laugh, but you can't just be funny. You do have to work at it, and you have to try to know what your role is and when you can insert humor, or when it's best not to.

Colin Firth

I'm just the last English twit, really.

Clement Attlee

I am pleased to see from the laughter on the Ministerial benches that there is no implication on their part to take Sir Oswald Mosley too seriously. It can easily be seen to-day that this idea of a dictator is gradually falling down.

Daphne du Maurier

Time will mellow it, make it a moment for laughter. But now it was not funny, now I did not laugh. It was not the future, it was the present. It was too vivid and too real.

Dante Alighieri

Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness

Dante Alighieri

Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth.

Dante Alighieri

He is not always at ease who laughs.

Dan Simmons

Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

Dan Rather

Well, first of all, I don't want to debate the word conservative, but by my definition, a conservative is someone who wants to conserve the Constitution of the United States and the American tradition and law that no one is above the law.

Dan Rather

By more than two to one Americans do not consider what Kevorkian did, injecting a terminally ill patient with legal drugs at the patient's request, to be the same as murder. You may want to note that laws are not supposed to be enforced on the basis of public opinion polls.

Dan Quayle

I told you all lawyers are worthless. After all it takes won (sic) to know one.

Dan Quayle

No, I had no problem communicating with Latin American heads of state - though now I do wish I had paid more attention to Latin when I was in high school.

Dan Fogler

I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.

Cyrus Broacha

The first rule of comedy should be, you must be very lazy. Whoever works should be immediately removed.

Cynthia Ozick

The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.

Cynthia Ozick

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Cyril Connolly

The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.

Cyril Connolly

Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.

Dar Williams

There's a marketing scheme that tells you that pregnancy and child rearing will make you into a moron, that your kids are only happy when you're buying them stuff. It's hard being a parent, but I laugh a lot and smile a lot and really enjoy it. The ratio of laughter to sadness is higher. There's part of me that wants to broadcast that. Parenting only affirmed what I already cared about, and that's good

Daniella Alonso

I really am happy that I met my agency and my management company, because they see me as a person and not just a Latin woman.

Dan Maffei

I have consistently supported laws ensuring women are able to make their own health care decisions, and I will continue to protect womens access to contraceptives and reproductive health care.