Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donna Leon

Italians tend to be less rigidly moral and law-abiding than do Anglo-Saxons. They also have a profound suspicion of the state and most of its agencies.

Elizabeth Taylor

I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life.

Eli Broad

You always learn lessons in business.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The surest way to learn is by doing it, but often, the lesson is: Don't do it!

on and off. Some if it has been good. Some has been somewhat less than good.

Melissa Bank

'Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less like reading a story than experiencing it firsthand.

Howard Schultz

Men are willing to talk about these things in ways that were inconceivable less than ten years ago.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.

We're here to win, anything less will be a disappointment.

Teddy Thompson

My understanding of this life is that you tour and play for years and years, have some longevity and a steady career. That may sound boring, but I always thought that was less depressing than being a one-hit wonder.

John Landgraf

There is a lot less overt bigotry in America.

There is a lot less money for high-risk investments and no liquidity. The polls are not enough.

Eoin Colfer

The only lesson I really wanted to get across,

When we started, less than a quarter (of Tour competitors) were women. Now it's over half.

Let stern lessons of yesterdays be your food, your drink, your rest.

Las Vegas now is less Rat Pack and more brats in the car. It's just a big Western city.

Less than two weeks after her surgery, I took her to Target. She had her little yellow mask on.

Less than 3 percent of workers make straight minimum wage.

Less rope is needed for two necks as the Government's noose tightens.

less of a tendency for the U.S. population to migrate to another platform.

Many of the photographs are already famous. Others, never published before, promise to become no less so.

Adam Cohen

So far, Washington has done little and New Orleans' response has been less than satisfying.

So far, the results have been less than stellar.

The police like that it's in the afternoon. They think less people will be drunk.

The picture is getting less and less pretty.

Winona LaDuke

Eliminating some 3600 post offices - mostly rural - will save the USPS less than seven tenths of one percent of their operating budget, but nationally, a number of tribal communities will be hit.

Joyce Cary

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.

The very first step to building wealth is to spend less than you make.

Eric Fellner

I have always thought we should think less about the British film industry as an entity, and more about getting British talent working.

Edward Fitzgerald

Think then you are Today what Yesterday you were - Tomorrow you shall not be less

Logan Marshall-Green

I just think the more we're observed by other people, the less we can observe them in order to play them and find their true condition.

Lyle Lovett

The first time I toured with the 'Large Band' in 1988, I got so tired. If I just stood still anywhere, I could go to sleep. I was that tired. But I had to perform. And I did, and after that tour, I was much less fretful about going out onstage.

Birch Bayh

And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.