Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Lee Marvin

I love Marlon Brando. Never seem him bad, just less good.

Isabella Rossellini

Animals are everywhere. Some are more romantic, like tigers and elephants and chimpanzees, and some are less romantic, like earthworms, but they are just as interesting.

Benjamin Franklin

Let thy Child's first Lesson be Obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt

Benjamin Franklin

Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.

make the ledger slightly less out of balance.

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

Irving Stone

My goal always is to tell a universal story, meaning it's about a person who has an idea, a vision, a dream, an ambition to make the world somewhat less chaotic.

Wendelin Van Draanen

I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine.

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.

We have less than 1,200 on the list.

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.

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

Leila Janah

I'd worked at the World Bank briefly as an undergrad and studied poverty levels around the world - particularly those earning less than $1.25 a day.

Jay Weatherill

A stronger focus on quality public policymaking and less distraction of personalities would be a sufficient and important contribution I can make.

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

Marian Keyes

Bizarrely, I actually feel safer the older I get, like people will expect less from me, and I can become more and more invisible, yet more and more eccentric.

Gunther Schuller

That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's the center of musical activity still to this day, more or less, and so I auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera.