Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Wooden

When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur.

John Ruskin

When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.

John Ruskin

I know well that happiness is in little things.

Eric Hoffer

There is no alienation that a little power will not cure.

Mortimer Adler

Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth.

Philip Sidney

There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns.

Philip Roth

Literature got me into this mess and literature is going to have to get me out of it.

Penny Pritzker

I wanted to build businesses from the time I was little.

Peggy Noonan

A great speech is literature.

Marlon Brando

It's the hardest thing in the world to accept a 'little' success and leave it that way.

Maria Sharapova

When you are young, you are a little naive.

May Sarton

About loving, I have little to learn from the young.

Maurice Blanchot

If nothing were substituted for everything, it would still be too much and too little.

Any specific questions as to the pending litigation we probably won't be able to answer.

Sam lit up every room she was in.

Some teachers are literally instructing under a tree, under a tent, at a nice new picnic table.

Lord Chesterfield

Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.

It really didn't show they were complying with what the literal terms of the ordinance were.

Phil Gordon

It's a litigation bonanza, and it will stop business.

There were literally no blemishes we could uncover in the quarter.

There was this one line, 'fresh succulent first years,' that we taped literally 22 times.

Jeb Bush

This is going to be a quick response by literally thousands of people,

Sallust

Enough words, little wisdom. [Lat., Satis eloquentiae sapientiae parum.]

Sallust

Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible

S. I. Hayakawa

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.

Roland Joffe

I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dangerous sides of it, and this was the result.

Romain Gary

Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.

Susan Orlean

If you had really loved something, wouldn't a little bit of it always linger?

Susan Estrich

So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove.

Stuart Wilde

What you put out is what you get back, and the reason so many are so short of money is that they put little or nothing out

Storm Jameson

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

Sonia Johnson

We survive day by day on this planet by adjusting down, adjusting down. Little by little, imperceptibly, we adjust to increasingly deadly conditions, and come to accept them as 'natural' or inevitable.