Famous Quotes & Sayings

Evelyn Waugh

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.

Golda Meir

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.

He's a pig. He likes women and he's a philanderer.

Eoin Colfer

Caballine likes me to be masterful. She calls me her stallion.

Carlos Silva

It's our secret weapon. Our team likes the song a lot. We made it just for the team.

The numbers that he has put up are astonishing. But he also likes pressure situations. In big games, he's at his best. That's special.

Craig Smith

It was nice to play a team that likes to get up and down the court.

Dan Fouts

It's his team now, his personality. As a quarterback, he has ownership and he likes it.

That's what Tate does. She's a scorer and that's what she likes to do. She likes to shot and score baskets.

Everything about him is competitive. It seems like he wants the spotlight on him when they're down 15 with 10 minutes left. It seems like he likes that.

Pau Gasol

It's the usual thing with him. He likes to run his mouth. I said something back and he went crazy. That's fine.

Mike Royko

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

George Herbert

Who likes not the drinke, God deprives him of bread.

Jerry Brown

The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.

Jennie Garth

I'm one of those women who likes to chat and share knowledge and pass it around.

If he likes geese, he wouldn't do it.

Mark Turgeon

I do think they're unselfish players. Paul's an unselfish kid. Sean likes to shoot, but he also likes to pass. P.J.' s more of a passer than he is a scorer.

Phil Simms

He's the perfect quarterback for a team that likes to run it. Because he's big enough to stand there and shake off tacklers and get 4- and 5-yard passes off, which you need to do a lot of when you're a running team because you're in a lot of third downs.

Mickey Spillane

If the public likes you, you're good.

Mickey Spillane

If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.

Kevin Spacey

I remember meeting the likes of Johnny Carson and Jimmy Stewart for the first time and being completely starstruck.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.

Harriet Tubman

'Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, 'Peace, Peace,' as much as they likes - I know it's goin' to be war!

Emily Blunt

I'm not someone who likes to plan too much ahead.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.

Jonathan Sacks

Why did God create mankind? Because God likes stories.

Mason Cooley

Paradox likes contradictions with exits.

Joan Didion

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

Rajon Rondo

When you lose, nobody likes it and you start turning on each other.

Karen Armstrong

The awful atrocities of religion happened when people assume that God shares your likes and dislikes. The Crusaders when into battle to kill Muslims and Jews and cried, "God will's it." That was their battle cry. Obviously God willed no such thing. The Crusaders were simply projecting onto a deity they'd created on their own image and likeness, all their hatred and loathing of these faiths and made it endorse some of their most awful prejudices and lethal prejudices.

Karen Armstrong

We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.

Lynn Barber

But perhaps this is what goes wrong with long marriages--you state your opinions, your likes and dislikes, at the beginning and then forget to mention when they change" (135).

Kacey Musgraves

Just do something that makes you stand out. Even if not everyone likes it, just do it.