Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Coe

Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.

Jon Voight

Sometimes a little heartbreak is a lesson, and the best thing to do is just learn the lesson.

Jon Stewart

I'm a little bit too obsessed with the news. I find the news easier to follow than narrative entertainment programs.

Jon Lester

Im pretty fair-skinned, so I need to get in the sun for a little while.

Katey Sagal

But I started it when I was going through a transitional time in my life. At the end of it, it really sort of symbolized it. I had made room to change, and room to grow. I recorded it in a little room.

Kate Beckinsale

It`s the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent.

He that, when he should not, spends too much, shall, when he would not, have too little to spend.

Owen Wilson

I guess I was a little bit nervous, because there seemed to be so much secrecy with Ben [Stiller] wanting to make sure that it was a surprise when we walked out on the [Valentino] runway. I remember showing up at Place Vendôme and doing the fitting and seeing the pajamas that I was going to wear - which I like very much - and seeing Ben arrive kind of in disguise.

Ovid

Add little to little and there will be a big pile.

Paul McCartney

I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.

Pauline Marois

I feel like saying we need to all calm down a little. Lets take the time to breathe. I have no intention of allowing myself be distracted.

Mary McCormack

I can be a little acerbic.

Mary Oliver

Invention hovers always a little above the rules.

Mary Oliver

I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.

Martin Bashir

The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques.

Martin Amis

Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.

Pope John Paul II

See everything. Ignore a lot. Improve a little.

Pope John Paul II

There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little.

Philippa Gregory

Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.

Pope Francis

I read little, I just glance through one newspaper. Just 15 minutes.

Rachel Caine

Your education or your life, Claire. I'd rather you be alive and a little bit dumber.

Pete Wentz

If you aren't just a little depressed, then you aren't paying very much attention to what's going on in the world.

Pete Seeger

Realize that little things lead to bigger things.

Peter Steele

I drink for the effect, because it loosens up the tongue a little bit.

Peter Steele

I feel that I've grown up a little bit and I'm actually ready to settle down.

Quentin Crisp

Even hooligans marry, though they know that marriage is for a little while. It is alimony that is for ever.

Prince Philip

You could do with losing a little bit of weight.

Pierre Bayle

I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.

Pope John XXIII

Listen to everything, forget much, correct little.

Pope Francis

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Pope Francis

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.