Famous Quotes & Sayings

Blaise Pascal

A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us.

Bill Hicks

That's what I'm gonna do: quit gradually...I'm gonna lose one lung; little while later I'm gonna lose the other one.

Jim Ramstad

When I had alcoholic blackouts, I literally could not remember what I did the preceding night,

Doug Liman

'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' - every scene is from those characters' point of view. They're in literally every scene, very unusual in a big studio film.

Charles Spurgeon

Ah! dear friend, you little know the possibilities which are in you.

Bertrand Russell

We know too much and feel too little.

Benito Mussolini

Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.

Ben Fountain

I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one of many.

Ben Edlund

And Supernatural, in fact, going there wasit felt like a place where I had to actually, um, learn to be kind of manly. I felt like I had to kind of change my, like, way of speaking for a little bit, just to kind of fit in, oddly enough. Which was weird.

Carl Sandburg

I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.

Carl Sandburg

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

Carl Sandburg

Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.

Carl Sandburg

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

Bryant H. McGill

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

Bryant H. McGill

Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

Bryant H. McGill

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

Bryant H. McGill

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

Catherine Opie

I really love to drive. It's really hard for me to be a passenger, even though I get to look around a little bit more, but I've gotten really good at driving and looking.

Carl Van Vechten

Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?

Carl Zimmer

Everybody can digest milk when they're little.

Alan Furst

I read very little contemporary anything.

Alain de Botton

Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.

Frank Darabont

Of course, horror/fantasy has always been this disreputable stepchild of literature.

New Orleans was slowly sinking, literally and figuratively, well before Katrina.

Ed Parker

One becomes great when he comes to the realization that what he knows is very little.

Elizabeth Bowen

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.

Elizabeth Bowen

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

Elinor Ostrom

Little by little, bit by bit, family by family, so much good can be done on so many levels

Dixie Lee Ray

Everybody is exposed to radiation. A little bit more or a little bit less is of no consequence..

David Nicholls

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

Brit Hume

This is a tough environment, and it's tough for everybody.

Brit Hume

We've had a chance to be seen by viewers who had never seen us before, and we've kept a lot of them.

Brit Hume

We had more viewers on the broadcast network than we did on the cable channel.